Fuel Consumption- what's yours?

[pretzel]

Fire99 said:

Matthew-TMM said:

GS500 - around 65-75mpg.

holy moly.. that is alot.. kicks the CB into touch on the MPG score..

Same here, 2007 GS500F, 20 mile each way commute, single carriageway A-road for about 2/3 mainly slow speed filtering the rest, regularly hit 65mpg. free parking beats the 49mpg from the car with parking costs and higher cost fuel... I love my bike!

[Silver993tt]

randlemarcus said:

Not a damn clue. Never even think about it, as per the two posts above.

When I need to know what it is, I'll shoot myself.

It's easy on some bikes, they have a digital display which tells you

[randlemarcus]

Silver993tt said:

randlemarcus said:

Not a damn clue. Never even think about it, as per the two posts above.

When I need to know what it is, I'll shoot myself.

It's easy on some bikes, they have a digital display which tells you

I dont smell of wee though, so no BMWs for me

For some odd reason, most of the ones I end up piloting have a reserve light, rather than the how full the tank is, which is a bit of a PITA, but then its not hugely hard to open the fuel filler, and have a shufti

[Biker's Nemesis]

30-35 out of the R1.

18-20 out of the 600RR.

[Silver993tt]

randlemarcus said:

Silver993tt said:

randlemarcus said:

Not a damn clue. Never even think about it, as per the two posts above.

When I need to know what it is, I'll shoot myself.

It's easy on some bikes, they have a digital display which tells you

I dont smell of wee though, so no BMWs for me

For some odd reason, most of the ones I end up piloting have a reserve light, rather than the how full the tank is, which is a bit of a PITA, but then its not hugely hard to open the fuel filler, and have a shufti

ZZR1400 gives average, actual and absolute consumption. Also gives 175hp at the rear wheel

[CPC]

1999 ZX6R normal average of 52MPG with mixed riding, more than happy with that!

[rsv gone!]

randlemarcus said:

For some odd reason, most of the ones I end up piloting have a reserve light

And on an Aprilia, if it takes you 100 miles to see that light then you're not trying hard enough.......

Edited by rsv gone! on Friday 8th August 10:29

[Hyperion]

Just to make this more interesting for real world biking - How many miles before your reserve light comes on?
My XJ900 = 196 miles exactly.

[trumpet600]

TT600 - 160 miles if I'm behaving myself

110 if I'm not

80'ish on a trackday

Edited by trumpet600 on Friday 8th August 09:26

[nw_sonic]

nc30 , approx 45mpg when thrashing it or 60-65 mpg normal comuting speeds

[lawrence567]

On my cat RES light came on at about 165
On my GSXR reserve light came on at 30 miles....
Dealer was supposed to fill it up!

[Beemer-5]

I think the worst consumption, mpg per cc, if you like, was my Kawasaki S2, a 350cc triple, which had been tuned by Terry Beckett of Nottingham.
It went very well and sounded even better, but would do less than 20 mpg.
Not too hot for just 350cc!

[randlemarcus]

rsv gone! said:

randlemarcus said:

For some odd reason, most of the ones I end up piloting have a reserve light

And on an Aprilia, if it takes you 100 miles to see that light then you're not trying hard enough.......

Best was 75 Have managed 120 before, on a very sedate trip in the pi55ing rain. Boy was I glad to see that light up.

[Kam Racing]

on my last tank just got 63mph on the commute on my CB600 Hornet.

Was riding like a granny though.

[untruth]

55mpg on my NC30 with high octane fuel.

(but I tend to give it some quite a bit)

Edited by untruth on Friday 8th August 15:50

[2hondadave]

My CBR600 sport used to do about 120 miles to a tank in normal riding which is mid 30's never worked it out more accurately than that, about 80 miles on a track day which is pretty poor.

I worked it out on my Harley Sportster the other week for a laugh. Heavily tuned (1200, cam, ignition, high compression heads, hc pistons etc etc), about twice the stock output. Hooning it for 90% of the tank gave 55.5mpg , which certainly made me laugh! Not bad for an old pushrod engine in a really heavy 1950's designed frame!

[2hondadave]

My CBR600 sport used to do about 120 miles to a tank in normal riding which is mid 30's never worked it out more accurately than that, about 80 miles on a track day which is pretty poor.

I worked it out on my Harley Sportster the other week for a laugh. Heavily tuned (1200, cam, ignition, high compression heads, hc pistons etc etc), about twice the stock output. Hooning it for 90% of the tank gave 55.5mpg , which certainly made me laugh! Not bad for an old pushrod engine in a really heavy 1950's designed frame!

[smack]

Brite spark said:

smack said:

MPG is a mystery to me (I grew up in a land of the Metric system - and too old to re-learn!). I know 30 mpg is good (my daily hack car), and under 20 mpg is bad (my fun car).

But as for my bike, 1 litre gets me around 9-10 miles on average. So the bike needs to have fuel stuck in it around 160 miles (18l tank). Less if it is getting trashed, like in the Alps

gallon = 4.55 litres(approx)

30mpg= 6.5 miles per litre
20mpg =4.3 miles per litre

10 miles per litre = 45.5 mpg on bike

Aren't you a bright spark! Boom Tish..

Look's awfully complex, not sure I will get the hang of it. Maybe a beer will help

[Mr OCD]

YZF600R Thundercat... 50-52mpg ... never seen worse than 48mpg yet

[neenaw]

My 2007 FZ1 returns about 40mpg commuting and about 46mpg on a long run but for some strange reason the fuel light always comes on at 120miles be it commuting or motorway riding

Spoke to a dyno guy who's gonna set up the Power Commander for me and he reckons that the current fuelling is so bad that he can get a noticeable imrovement in the fuel economy as well as the power and rideability of the bike