Man, you tree-huggin earth muffin! Wanting good gas mileage and all. Man, it's people like you that run the EPA and ruin it for everybody else. J/K man, I wish I got close to that good of mileage, but unfortunately, all my driving is done around town and on campus.

 

I never got close to 50 on my 929. Best I've gotten on the XX was 40mpg.

 

Personally, I care only about range, not mpg.

 

Chain : Personally, I care only about range, not mpg.

Get a custom tank like I'm getting

 

Chain : Personally, I care only about range, not mpg.

I'm no scientist....but aren't those things are related....

 

The best I got was just short of 400km (248.5miles) on a tank (including reserve)

I got to 330km and my light had not come on, figured maybe the light was blown and should fuel up anyway, after filling up I realised I still had enough left to get another 65km.

This was after my full hindle and PCIII were installed and mapped, and was on a freeway at what would have been about 120 - 130km/h (75 - 80mph) average speed, with the odd 60km/h (37mph) zone thrown in.

On the 929.

Z....

 

Baketech : Quote (Chain @ Aug. 19 2003, 10:20am)Personally, I care only about range, not mpg.

I'm no scientist....but aren't those things are related....
Obviously the better mileage you get, the more range you'll have as well... so of course they're related.

The distinction I'm making is simply this: I don't pay much attention to the day-in, day-out mileage my bike gets. I know I get between 125-135 miles range before my fuel light goes on and I've got another ~30 miles before I'm pushing.

 

Maybe you should reprogram your light to extend your range by coming on at 100 miles to go?

 

For Chain -- my range is now (50*3.7=) 185 miles before the reserve light come on.  

 

56 mpg, riding in high elevations (5-11k). Usually get about 35-45 at normal elevations I ride at (under 3k).

 

Getting better milage than a SV doesn't impress me. I ride with an SV all the time and the SV get's about 30-35 mpg.

 

eeeeek : Getting better milage than a SV doesn't impress me.  I ride with an SV all the time and the SV get's about 30-35 mpg.

My old SV was getting 55 mpg.

When gas prices were going crazy, I thought I must have been crazy to have sold the SV. But that was back when my CBR was getting 35-36. I'm now okay with all my decisions.

 

SoCalRider : My old SV was getting 55 mpg.  

You must ride like that old goof andyauger did on SVRider.com's board.

Hey, in all seriousness, that's pretty impressive mileage. I'm nowhere NEAR judicious enough with my throttle hand.

 

I got 50 mpg on one leg of my iron butt trip, but the average for the whole trip was right around 45 mpg. Normal commuting yields around 40 mpg, which is OK by me.

 

#### i only get like 150 km per tank no matter how i ride! if i go hard all day race from light to light or cruise friday night up and down the strips light comes on at 150 km no change ever wtf????

 

I get about 25mpg

 

For those of you out there with PCIIIs...

...ever think of making a ~14.7AF map, say, in the 1-6K RPM range, or simply a more efficient map for long distance riding? With laptops/palms/etc it would make swapping maps a breeze, and has the potential of dramatically increasing mileage/range (m/r) while getting there, or during weekly commuting. I noticed that my m/r increased by about 20 miles after installing the PCIII with the Erion slipon map, so I imagine that a purpose-made map would help even more. The only trick would be remembering not to gas the crap out of the bike when in the higher AF range (if you have a mixed map), or to put in the high-per map when needed.

 

I just installed the PCIII in my XX, calibrated the throttle (it only went to 97%. I was down 3% on my top speed all this time. I really needed that extra speed.), and loaded the XX 'Stock' map. Gonna see how my mileage is affected.

 

Lean it out all the way Conq - that should improve mileage considerably

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