Fuel Economy: pounds per mile and how many miles do you get.

"The How do you get so many miles from your tyres" thread seems to have gone a bit off topic so I've continued the sub-topic here cos its quite an interesting one.

Basically people are questioning what do you get out of a tank. Some people it seems have a really poor economy from thier bikes.

I commute on motorway and duel carriageway so its not slow and steady riding. Much accel and breaking and filtering so I go from 80ish on the clearer stretches and 70ish if filtering on mway to 30ish in the duel carriageway filtering its a 16mile trip I do that twice a day, therefore 32miles a day and a tank of fuel lasts me from full to flashing light 5 working days no trouble.
Thats roughly 160miles on £11.

Whats your stats???

On average I got around 100-110 miles before the fuel light started to flash on my Barcelona trip. During normal daily use I'm not so sure as I only commute 5 miles to work everyday and then 5 miles back.
I'll fill up tonight and let you know when it needs filling up again.

[christopher]

I seem to average 120 miles for every 10 litres (55 MPG) and that's mixed A/B roads and city riding.

On a motorway run (sitting at 70... sure ) I get 65+ MPG.

Be interesting to see how it compares - I haven't read the other thread yet.

i have discovered now i've started filling up my tank to the top i can get to 121miles and petrol light still isnt on, but i usually bottle it by then and go get fuel at the next place.
so thats 120+?+reserve for £13
i do have a cbr f though not an SV

I got to 160 before fuel light (last time), that included commuting on Motorway, Dual carriage way and twisty A road. Also 70 miles of "fun" Whitby coast road among others if people know it? Anyways, that gives me a MPG of 44. (160 miles 16.5Litre's (3.6Imperial Gallon).

If I was to just do my commute with no fun I can get 50mpg. Not bad for a Litre engine I don't think.

On the SV I normally got 60-75mpg depending on riding.





Liam, how is your bike limited? Im guessing not ECU, Smoggy had similar MPG problems and it was the crappy limiter...

Mine is a 99 curvey, mostly for commuting which is a 6 mile city type ride at mostly 30 with some filtering, and quite a few sets of traffic lights.

If I do just the commuting and no travelling or fun riding, my light comes on at around 120miles. So 140ish out of a tank. I think that sounds a bit low, but interested to see what others are getting.

[ophic]

Originally Posted by christopher

I seem to average 120 miles for every 10 litres (55 MPG) and that's mixed A/B roads and city riding.

about same, but on motorways. I tend to be in a hurry so i've seen the upper end of 110 on clear stretches.

Sorry, bit too geeky but my stats collected over the course of a year average out at:
SV650s Sport K6

Fill up: £13.99 (bear in mind that covers when petrol was at 120p +)
Fuel price: 105.1p
litres: 13.8 (so I've usually had around 3.5 left in it)
MPG: 55.1
Miles between fuel stops: 170.4

Pence Per Mile:
Fuel: 9p
Tyres: 2p

Average miles per tank: 206.3 (assuming by calculation that I ran it to empty)

Reserve Capacity:
Flashing (4.5L left so I was told) 54.6 miles
Solid (1.5L left) 18.2

I will usually risk 2-3 trips to work (each way not both) from when it starts flashing and I've not run out yet. closest I got was 1.11L left.

Only twice have I managed to make the bike to less than 50mpg, I got 44.5 on one fill up and the tank would only have got me 166 miles then.

The bulk of my miles is work commuting 13 miles each way rural A and B roads, but contrary to the stats I don't take it easy, the only thing that is slightly in my favour is I engine brake a lot, so changing speed limits I will usually let it run down to the lower limit rather than braking.

[jamesterror]

Last fill up was Sunday since then I've had 152 from about 13.5ltr then fuel light came on which I got to 185mile then decided to stop pushing it and fill up before I literally was pushing it to the petrol station.

Mixture of A roads, few B roads and several single track country lanes, and junction on the M42 around 70mph..

I don't rev particularly high, 8k max cos restrictor is there and I don't see the point really. My bike is ECU restricted...

[Bibio]

on the recent Tomintoul run i done 300miles and spent £15 of fuel... that works out to 94MPG

i usually average 70MPG