1150 MPG's Poll?

[Mick_rw]

Re: Cat code plug

Will removing the cat code plug affect the fuel consumption of my 00R1150GS and if so will it go up or down? Mpg that is.

Can't answer your question but my bike, X Reg, has never had a cat code plug fitted, my average consumption over the past year has been 50+.

Stef......As to the coments about twisting that thing on the right hand grip I do gov Honest....

 

[verona]

Re: Re: Cat code plug

Can't answer your question but my bike, X Reg, has never had a cat code plug fitted, my average consumption over the past year has been 50+.

50+ Sound's good to me. I saw a message on this site from Steptoe somewhere about a small jumper cable instead of the cat code plug as my bike like Steptoe's has a Remus y piece and Remus Revolution end can, I think I will try this and see if it enhances the performance of my silver beast.

Cheers. Jay

 

[_pi_]

you are missing < 36 mpg... applicable to london riding and people with strong wrists.

 

[Trevor Brown]

Having nothing better to do, I also keep a record of MPG. Over 13,000 miles, my 1150GS has done a best of 64.1 and a worst of 42.4mpg. As a comparison, I also have a Honda Blackbird which over 3,000 miles has done a best of 53.3 and a worst of 39.7mpg.

 

[Number 6]

I picked up my new Adventure yesterday and put some miles on it today. So, running-in, at a quickish pace, I got 220 miles from 28 litres or 36.7 mpg. I am not impressed with that as my Hayabusa would have done 45 - 50 mpg over the same route. I had one of the first Fireblades and when running that in I was getting 69mpg!!! I know the Adventure is a lot heavier and less aerodynamic and I had knobblies and 3 ally cases on but even so it seems thirsty. I was keeping the revs between 3000-5000rpm, I know it will pull from lower revs when run in but I don't think it will improve the mpg much. Does consumption improve with a few miles on and how much difference do knobblies make? I reckon the luggage probably cost 3-4 mpg. Bring back leaded petrol and ban catalytic converters I say

 

[welder8uk]

when I first got my 1150 it had a Y piece, remus titanium and a BB power chip and it motored. However I was only getting about 36 mpg.

Put the original exhaust back on and cat, and it made no difference to the mpg, but I didi loose abit of the power.

I then put the original BWM chip back, I am now getting about 45mpg. If I treat it really nice I can get low 50's.

Although I have lost some of the power and aceeleration it had, for the increase of nearly 50 miles per tank, I'll live with it.

Read the threads on cat code (CCP) and have a look at your set up.

Steve

 

[Number 6]

Steve, the bike is bog standard, only 2 days old. Checking it over yesterday I found the front brake was binding quite a bit, which wouldn't help the mpg.

 

[ELIMINATOR]

So, if the odometer reads 10% fast, and the bike does lots of miles. Then if we want to keep the warrantee, then we are being stiched up by BMW for 10% shorter service intervals than necessary? At BMW rates, that should pay for a recall to sort out the ABS servo brakes, shouldn't it?
I just couldn't resist getting another snipe in about them there brakes, which are ace when they work. But, when they don't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????

 

[MikeP]

I've never bothered keeping the figures to check mpg before but I decided to do so on my recent (aborted) trip through Spain and France.

The distances are from the SatNav. Fuel was at Spanish and French prices. Nearly all the distances were covered with the bike fully loaded (460 kg me and the bike together).

The bike is an 04 Adventure, OE silencer and Y-piece. I used 98 octane once when I couldn't get 95.

Total distance 2652 miles, 4269 km.

48.39 Gals. 220 litres.

Average speed, 45 mph, 77.6 kph.

54.8 mpg. 19.4 km/litre.

£118 or 201 Euro. That's 22.47 pence per mile.

(Someone should check my figures, I'm not good at hard sums!)

 

[Number 6]

I picked up my new Adventure yesterday and put some miles on it today. So, running-in, at a quickish pace, I got 220 miles from 28 litres or 36.7 mpg. Bring back leaded petrol and ban catalytic converters I say

As an update, after 5,000 miles, the consumption has gradually improved to 40-45 mpg in the UK with the cat removed. In Morocco it was returning 53 mpg!!! (280 miles from 24 litres) on 'Super' ie leaded petrol and had much more midrange pull.

 

[Bateman]

Don't know how big the tank is so no idea of MPG, but I got 191 miles until reserve over a 2 week period commuting to and from work, all urban. On the toll roads in France last week, I was filling up with the BP Ultimate equivalent or whatever the 98 stuff is, and at a steady hundred was getting the fuel light at just over 100 miles from full. bike is completely standard

 

[doctor]

my first post,

picked up my 1150 last week and did 146 miles home, put in 11.6 litres when I got home, you do the maths but I was impressed!

 

[ciderman]

normal riding 40ish mpg best yet 115 miles = 1 tank tyres tourance 4000miles what a blast

 

[doctor]

just done a 370 mile round trip. All motorway, not hanging around (80-90mph) plenty of fast bursts, averaged 57mpg!


well impressed.

 

[gasman]

I get about 40-45 mpg.
I remember reading an article in Ride magazine (I think, may have been TWO) where they had a challenge to get as far as possible on a tank of petrol. The winner got about 90 mpg, by riding very carefully - minimizing acceleration and braking, slipstreaming, warming up the engine first, putting his tyres at a higher pressure etc.
Just goes to show how mpg can be vastly affected by these things.

 

[Bigtwin]

My last tank got me 52.5 in mixed commuting. It's got more frugal since I put the K&N air intake and filter in, which is nice. Running stock pipe, y bit, and the Steptoe ccat-plug setting. Have been for a while, checked the plugs for mix and all looks spot on, so works for me.

 

[Burra boy]

A few years ago I ran my old K100RS in the local Ducati club fuel economy contest.

I won outright, all the classes, by getting, and this was checked and double checked and I didn't cheat, 100.53 miles per gallon....

 

[mikst]

Journey with top box and bags, speed between 70 km/h-160km/h, 53MPG
Daily trips to the work, there and back in the city, 42MPG

 

[Bigtwin]

My last tank got me 52.5 in mixed commuting. It's got more frugal since I put the K&N air intake and filter in, which is nice. Running stock pipe, y bit, and the Steptoe ccat-plug setting. Have been for a while, checked the plugs for mix and all looks spot on, so works for me.

Todays' results - 52.28mpg, same commute - seems pretty consistent.

 

[acerimmer]

Riding a daily commute through a mix of urban and rural returns around 45mpg. If I want to have serious fun on the way, (that means most of the time ) that drops to around 38-40mpg. Will be touring around Scotland in a few weeks, so long as I don't get stranded miles from a petrol station I'll not be too bothered about fuel consumption so long as I have plenty of and