The 200 Club!

[gettin2dizzy]

I tried to join today....sadly not the fun one. Sick of 120 miles to a tank under 'normal' motorway mileage I decided for a slow, economical, Gordon Brown style ride - hopefully achieving the elusive 200 miles per tank achievement!

Gently on the throttle on to the motorway I hogged the inside lane, cruising at what felt like walking pace (75). This kind of riding is hideous, no slaloming through cars and trucks, no lurching away once the road clears :( Through a few road works and junctions I eventually hit the mystical orange flashing light at 170 miles! Amazing! I've never been passed 120 miles without it flashing at me previously! Scotch Gap was still 45 miles away however, and with it being dark, damp, cold and 11.30pm I decided to call it a day in the service station (whilst feeling like a class A girls blouse). I had hit 188.7 miles, and that was enough. I went to fill it too the brim.

Baring in mind the tank can hold 17 litres, I was ready to pay the £16. But the click happened far earlier; brimming with petrol I could only fit 13.3 litres in! That technically means a running distance of 239 miles! Bugger!

[Lissa]

When we got lost in the Alps ( long story involving detour signs that vanished, unmarked gravel tracks, abandoned cars at the edge of 500ft plus drops, landslide warnings, boulders the size of garden sheds in the road, snow, ice, wolves (ok, not wolves, but there could have been wolves in those forests!) and a blinking fuel light for miles) we managed 171 miles out of our 16 litre tank..................and we hadn't exactly been riding conservatively up until we got lost:)

You'll have to do the experiment again;)

[carty]

It is quite amazing what mileage you can eek out when riding conservatively. (Surely Gordon Brown can't travel 'conservatively' can he?!)

For my first couple of thousand miles on my GSXR I was hooning it (apart from running in obviously) and I was getting pretty bad mpg but when I commute on the motorway I can average 80-90mph mostly in 6th gear on the journey and get two trips to work and back out of a tank which is about 170 miles and there's still theoretically a couple of litres left in the tank (~£14 to fill up).

Cheers,
Matt

[ASM-Forever]

Same as cartwrim really.....If im thrashing the R6, tank range is abysmal(but who cares its a sports bike), but on a commute or an easy ride i see over 150 miles tank.

[hovis]

if in doubt................ go flat out

[Pedro68]

remember kids ........... SAFETY FIRST
Shame some of today's kids' parents didn't have that attitude :rolleyes:

[-Ralph-]

Stick a gerry can on the pillion seat and ride til you run out! :)

[Jase22]

I might have a go at this. Generally on my commute my flashing light usually starts at about 110-115 miles. There is a fair bit of city riding on my commute though, so I'll see if I can squeeze 150 first off.

[ThEGr33k]

When i got 200 Miles i wasnt really riding like a grandad! No way! A roads to glasgow then on the motorway at 80+ till i finally found a petrol station. Wierd how some people struggle bad!

Maybe its your weight? I weight in at about 10 Stone... :smt023

[gettin2dizzy]

The next week i got 85 before the light came on! Bonkers!

[Mogs]

The GF is syphoning some off one week then adding it back the next.

[gettin2dizzy]

\\:D/

I've made an amazing discovery! Stick to the speed limits and the fuel light doesn't come on until 190 miles! It makes me question how everyone on here drives ;)

Oh, and as I did the trip without stopping for fuel it actually took no longer. 3 1/2 hours in the seat is easily bearable too.

Now where did I leave that 200 crown :scratch:

[chakraist]

Hmm, I'm 17 stone and I managed to get 130 til the light came on last time round, next fill up I'll see what I can do. I'm driving to nottingham at some point (from kent) in the near future, may have to check it out then, see if it's doable on one tank!

[pencil shavings]

Ive never got over 120ish but then Ive never tried, and the light on the K3 seems to come on very early, at about 12 liters.

[gettin2dizzy]

Well I'm 13 stone, I had a tankbag and a tailbag with an oxford monster AND a series IV almax in so it wasn't exactly light ;)

I just sat at 68-74ish and watched the world go by. Was a really pleasant journey; every time I hit the inevitable traffic I went soaring past all of the cars that where doing 100 earlier. No stress whatsoever :)

[Ed]

Wifey is looking over my shoulder as I read/type this and says 'hah, typical men! - saying how much they weigh!! Women would never say how much they weigh and if they did they'd make it 3 stone lighter!!!'

And I say - I didn't buy a bike to ride it slow;)

[ThEGr33k]

Achieving 200+ miles is easy if you keep a constant 60-80 for the 200 miles I found... If there is any real stop start then its hard to do. :(

[SoulKiss]

I got 165 miles on the Zed 2-up the other week - put 15 litres in , its a 18.5 litre tank, so at 11 miles a litre over 200 should be possible.

[G]

I have had 64mpg out of my SV, that was riding at 65 - 70 behind my girlfriends dad for 130miles up the M1/A1.

That was measuring litres/miles working it out as well so accurate.

[mister c]

My old bike used to do around 55mpg. Full to the brim until flashy light about 155 - 160 miles, so to bone dry, 200 could be possible. I haven't tried this one yet, so I have yet to see

[ranathari]

I can't be the only one who thought you meant the other 200 Club when I saw the thread title.

[gettin2dizzy]

I can't be the only one who thought you meant the other 200 Club when I saw the thread title.
On an SV? I'd like to see that! ;)

200 miles for less than 13 litres of fuel; that's 70mpg!

[-Ralph-]

On an SV? I'd like to see that! ;)

200 miles for less than 13 litres of fuel; that's 70mpg!

But the SV holds 17 litres, thats 3.74 gallons, 200/3.74 = 53.5 mpg

The best I ever got was 187 miles and that was whilst I was running the bike in and limited to 5500 revs. It ran dry ticking over whilst I was opening the garage door to put it away. Nowadays its more like 140-150 miles, but it gets a much harder time.

I guess that 200 or slightly over is not impossible if you fill to the brim off the sidestand and run dry, paying particular attention to the economy whilst riding.

[gettin2dizzy]

But the SV holds 17 litres, thats 3.74 gallons, 200/3.74 = 53.5 mpg

The best I ever got was 187 miles and that was whilst I was running the bike in and limited to 5500 revs. It ran dry ticking over whilst I was opening the garage door to put it away. Nowadays its more like 140-150 miles, but it gets a much harder time.

I guess that 200 or slightly over is not impossible if you fill to the brim off the sidestand and run dry, paying particular attention to the economy whilst riding.
ah, but it only took 12.6 litres of fuel when I went to fill it up at 195 miles ;)

Conversely I've had the light on at 85 :thumbsup:

[thefallenangel]

I've done 3 trips to reading and back to newport and got about 110 miles to the fuel light which is 4.5 litres left. so that's 110/12.3 = 39 mpg thats doing 7,000 rpm all the way there as i'm bloody restricted. That works out at about 140 miles to a tank.