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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:44 am
by Venarius
Edit,
I took out the bike with a group and held it steady at 70-75 on the highway for the whole tank and my gas milage jumped up to 39 miles a gallon (best I've ever got). With usual running my bike gets 32-34 mile's a gallon. I've also found I got better gas mileage with more and more miles. Right now I've only got about 13k.
'03 VTX 1800 Spoke
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:15 pm
by Skel3tor1
Honda Rebel 250.
Gas tank holds 2.7 gal.
Ranges from 63-74mpg depending on how I ride. (Fast Accel vs being in 5th by the time I'm at 20 mph)
I normally fill up in the 170-180 miles traveled range.
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:17 pm
by Kal
CX500 custom trike
1983, Honda
12l tank
72 Miles
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:45 pm
by Yngvai X
Hmm i have a question, my ninja says Reserve/on/on for the gas. Is it best to just leave it at reserve and just run untill i need to put gas back in? or is it better to keep it at On until i need to switch to reserve?
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:10 pm
by Nalian
Yngvai X wrote:Hmm i have a question, my ninja says Reserve/on/on for the gas. Is it best to just leave it at reserve and just run untill i need to put gas back in? or is it better to keep it at On until i need to switch to reserve?
Keep it at on, and try to fill before you need to go to reserve. The reserve is there
in case you need it. If you're going to run into reserve at all, do it once to see how far you can get and then you know..but don't intentionally go there.
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:24 pm
by Yngvai X
Yeah the guy was like just run it off reserve, that way you dont have to mess with changing it from On to reserve while your riding and whatever, and i was like hmm okay??
and hes just like yeah you run straight from the tank this way.
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:54 pm
by Kal
The walk to the garage to get a can of fuel when you've run out IS the longest walk in the world.
The reserves purpose in life is to get you to a garage when you are out of fuel.
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:57 am
by jonnythan
I just filled up my Yamaha XV535 for the first time. The gas tank is very small at 2.2 gallons.
I went 77 miles on just under 1.8 gallons of gas, giving me ~45mpg. Almost all of those miles were low speed and/or city driving.
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:55 pm
by 307T
Wow. Long thread. Six months worth of replies. My bike gets between 40-44 MPG depending on how I ride. With the tank just under 3 gallons, I get about 120 miles. Have not tried to push it further than that. I have no warning light, the engine just gasps if I run too long. If I am riding that kind of distance, I usually just automatically switch it to reserve at about 90 miles.
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:24 am
by WyoSemRider
I get 81 mpg on my 2006 Suzuki GZ250 and can ride at 65 mph all day long doing it. With its 3.7 gal tank I can ride for 4.5 hours from full to dry, but I normally fill it after I've gone about 200 miles or every 2.5 hours.