Poor Gas Mileage...?

[Sidecar Flip]

I'm doing right there about 30mpg ... sometimes less, sometimes more. I consider anything over 30 a bonus.

The bike ain't a VW Jetta TDI.

 

[HellFire]

The bike ain't a VW Jetta TDI.

Nope, it sure ain't.
Most wheels stay in a relatively narrow range no matter how it's driven. This bike either drinks gas right out the pump, or sips all day long .... It's all in the wrist.

 

[ksquared]

This thread was started by a fellow rocket rider asking if anyone knew why it got lousy mileage and I felt that he was given a somewhat less than serious answer to what he obviously felt was a serious question. As to what someone can and can't afford, that's really none of anyone else's **** business.

You're right. It was a crappy, off-the-cuff remark by me and I apologize for it.

But I still don't know how you got 50 MPG out of your M109!

 

[Jackson]

I haven't even thought of mileage. I ride with a Harley guy and we alwalys are at the gas station. So I fill up and haven't realized what I get except that s--t eatin grin on my face.

 

[Daffy]

TIRE PRESSURE, AIR FILTER, HOW YOU RIDING STYLE(HEAVY HAND) AND BRAND OF GAS CAN LOTS OF ACCESSORIES AND EVEN RIDER WIEGHT ALSO EFFECT FUEL MILAGE.

MY FUEL MILLAGE HAS BEEN AS LOW AS 28MPG.

SINCE USING TUNE ECU I HAVE RAISED MY MPG TO 42, WITHOUT CHANGING MY RIDING STYLE.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Here in Michigan we have one brand of fuel called "Admiral". Not sure if it's sold everywhere but it has a high percentage of alcohol. Alcohol only has half the energy of gasoline so you have to burn more of it. I've tried it in my cars and bikes because it's normally a few cents cheaper. It's makes any vehicle I've ever put it in run lean and stumbly.

 

[HellFire]

Here in Michigan we have one brand of fuel called "Admiral". Not sure if it's sold everywhere but it has a high percentage of alcohol. Alcohol only has half the energy of gasoline so you have to burn more of it. I've tried it in my cars and bikes because it's normally a few cents cheaper. It's makes any vehicle I've ever put it in run lean and stumbly.

That's another joke played on the American public. Alcohol made from corn, subsidized by our taxes, raising the price of corn and animal feed, raising the price of meat and poultry. Alcohol paid for with tax money, added to gasoline with tax money, yielding a "watered down" fuel with less available energy when burned, causing lower power and lower miles per gallon so that we have to buy more of it to go the same distance.
All paid for from start to finish by those using and buying the corn, meat and fuel.
It must make perfect sense to someone ... just doesn't make any sense to me.

 

[Air Force Mark]

I regularly show 35-37mpg. BTW does the built-in speedo error also effect the odometer? Logical that it would, however I've heard that different methods are sometimes used to measure each.

 

[Ridgerunner]

You're right. It was a crappy, off-the-cuff remark by me and I apologize for it.

But I still don't know how you got 50 MPG out of your M109!

Apology accepted. It's possible that I overreacted just a little bit.

As to my statement about the M109r, I said "nearly 50". And I stated that it was on the highway. Overall I think I probably averaged about 38-40 mpg. And on the highway means running 70 or so on 2 lanes and 80-85 on 4 lanes. (And 130 mph one time while putting a goldwing rider in his place)

 

[fishaholic]

I tracked mine the other day. I mixed some highway (70%) and local riding (30%), not too crazy on the throttle............some 90 to 100 mph passes here and there, and I got just a tad under 36.

Just posting so you have a reference point. I have no mods, and a wind screen. I'm 230.