MPG

[davegs]

Panniers make a big differance especailly TTs act like airbrakes! same size as one's fitted to jets!. We've all noticed this and it ain't an old wives tail.

 

[Mac]

My fuels bars dissapear at around 130 and it's fuel light on from there, however the first time it happened i filled up straight away and could only get 17 litres in the tank, yet it holds 24......

i'm on 160 with fuel light still on

gonna put a 5 litre fuel container in the topbox tomorrow and see how far i can get

 

[ChrisH Kerry]

So what does all that mean in MPGs? Is it 200 miles to 22 litres? = 41mpg... does that sound about right??

 

[Borderraider]

1150 BB chip & full remus

Last Sunday 237 miles 21.54 ltrs

 

[(RIP) ugg]

there we have it - proof that 1100's are for real riding men that give it welly - not your gaylord club type speed limit-ed tw4ts

1100's are the last of the speed machines that thrive on throttle and return better fuel consumption the harder they are ridden - no watered down namby-pamby 1150 type tuning here - just real world live and breathe motorcycling for the focussed - not the masses.






edit : its late - i've had a few

ye been drinkin that native brew again...
it;l turn ye blind , n stop chattin up roos, they have rites too

ugg

 

[davegs]

1150 with adventure tank, got 316 miles but it hadent run out, but must have been getting close.
dave ( I hate Christmas ) GS.

 

[D6]

Ridin to work n poterin arand i get 160,180 miles to a full tank..
i dont ride like an old man...

in Hungry on the autobahn my red light came on around the 200 mile mark , th

ugg

bloody hell, was it on a plane or summat?160thou to a tank, was it a touratech jobbie?
i thought your red light came on in amsterdam

 

[Borderraider]

So what does all that mean in MPGs? Is it 200 miles to 22 litres? = 41mpg... does that sound about right??

Yep 200/22 x 4.54609 = 41.328091mpg

 

[g.s.john]

200 miles to fuel light standard zorst k&n no mods usually put in 17-21 litres 48/50 mpg
like to make progess

 

[clivewhilde]

I posted a thread on mpg some weeks ago for my bog standard 1150GS. I was only getting 37-38mpg riding fairly hard but knew there was something wrong with the bike as an identical one owned from new returned 45-55.
I bit the bullet last week and had a power commander fitted and had it set up on a rolling road, mainly to solve the economy issues. Andy at Junction 33 in Lancaster has set it up and the bike as standard was quote " a complete pig". Fuelling was jumping around all over the place and running extremely lean, the revs actually dipped when the throttle was blipped. All my suspiscions confirmed. So far not managed a tankful but a quick blast has confirmed a very immediate throttle response and part throttle performance only achievable when wide open before.
Its an expensive option but I couldn't live with the bike as it was.

 

[(RIP) ugg]

bloody hell, was it on a plane or summat?160thou to a tank, was it a touratech jobbie?
i thought your red light came on in amsterdam

she was too expensive so i had to my self off instead...

who said that
ugg

 

[Trullion]

My 850GS does 52mpg overall. It used to be much worse until I set the TPS and the potentiometer - it doesn't have a cat. A few weeks ago I ran through a tankful of ordinary unleaded, riding like the granddad that I actually am rather than the lunatic I usually ride like. The end result, after a week or so of mind-numbing tedium, is a vastly improved 54mpg. So, over the same 22mile (each way) journey it wasn't worth the effort of behaving myself.

Dunno about 1150s, but both my 850 and 1100 (RS) are more dependent on how well they are set up than how you ride them (though not slowing down much helps). Having messed around with re-chipping the 850 in the past I have concluded that they aren't worth bothering with - much better to stick to the standard set-up and tune 'em up properly.