Fuel Consumption- what's yours?

[Mr Gear]

I estimate my Triumph Speed Four to do about 40-45 mpg on my commute, and slightly more on the open road. Which sounds OK until you consider my car with an engine twice the size, and 4-5 times the weight does the same.

I have a theory that parallel twins produce the best fuel consumption... post up your figures here and let's see if I'm wrong or right.

[fish]

Pegaso 650 Trail. A 660cc Single my first tank when not tuned properly was 55mpg on an open commute

[dern]

y2k blade - 35-40mpg on the commute (30 miles each way. mostly dual-c).

Edited by dern on Thursday 7th August 09:49

[Talya]

From my calculation my YBR gives me approximately 87mpg on my commuting.

Edited by Talya on Thursday 7th August 09:51

Edited by Talya on Thursday 7th August 09:52

[Silver993tt]

Kawasaki ZZR1400 overall consumption 46 mpg (6L/100km). That includes town, country and motorway riding.

[Mr Gear]

Talya said:

From my calculation my YBR gives me approximately 87mpg on my commuting.

Nice!

[smack]

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

[lawrence567]

No idea what the new one does.
the thundercat did 185 miles to a full tank whcih cost about 20-22 to fill up!

[black-k1]

My K1200S gives a pretty consistent 45mpg to 46mpg (Nice and easy to calculate as the number of litres going into the bike is 1 tenth the distance travelled since the last fill up.) That’s with commuting over 100 miles each day across the wilds of East Anglia on a mixture of dual carriageway, country lanes and town roads.

[Yoda954]

2002 Blade - I get somewhere between 40-45 mpg. No commuter use, mainly swiftish evening rides. I've had a PCIII fitted for a few years now & am sure this has helped increase my mpg by a little although I have never actually sat down and worked it out.

Edited by Yoda954 on Thursday 7th August 10:30

[Fire99]

my cb500 around town does 48-50mpg so not mega for a P-twin

TL (tuned) 28-30mpg normal riding... 57mpg at a steady 85ish.... (slow cruise to Assen)

[Talya]

Mr Gear said:

Talya said:

From my calculation my YBR gives me approximately 87mpg on my commuting.

Nice!

Yeah which is why I will keep the YBR even when I get a bigger bike! Then I can justify getting a supercool bike that eats fuel

[RemaL]

on my Speed triple ist says 50.3MPG avarage over the last 1700miles. but I have not reset it since I got it. so prop more like 35-45MPG now

[Graham]

45-50ish out of my 695 monster... twice what I get out of the discovery but less than I could get out of some random small diesel !!!

more fun though

[sjtscott]

My blackbird is returning 30-40 MPG depending on how its being ridden and where. Round town its the lower figure, out of town the higher figure. Thats a swing in real terms of 50 or so miles per tank!
I have to say I haven't pushed the reserve area of the tank, I would say that Honda have set the fuel gauge (yes it actually has a digital one) very conservative as to when it flashes on the last segment. I think I need to bungee on 5litres and find out for sure.

Edited by sjtscott on Thursday 7th August 11:27

[catso]

'98 Ducati 916 probably averages around 38-40mpg but will easily do 45 on a steady (but brisk) run and would guess probably 50 or so on a motorway at legal speeds.

About the only aspect of Ducati ownership that is cheap.....

[Stig]

About 58mpg on my TDM. 100 miles a day no a variety of A/B/Motorway and city riding.

Tank range of 200+ miles which is one of the main reasons for buying it. Nothing more annoying than having to fill/top up every day (I had a Pegaso and a DRZ400 that required this!)

[Schmeeky]

Never had less than 40mpg on my SV1000, it's usually 43-45mpg and that's purely pleasure riding on A and B roads. Best has been 48mpg.

[C8PPO]

I haven't the faintest idea.

I put petrol in, I ride it, and when the light comes on, repeat.

I thought that was what bikes were for?

[YZF600R]

I don't know and I don't care.

Motorcycles are for riding, not pussying around trying to save 1 or 2 mpg!