Fuel Guzzling Bugger! :(

Maybe i just ride like a loon :P

Originally Posted by xXBADGERXx

I checked Morgans site out there .....

I've got one. Simple to use and it works very well.

Right , I have tried this . Here is the results of what I did last week .

Bike was ridden between 5k and 7k on the rev counter , no aggressive acceleration , smooth and progressive and no gears were lazily chugged . No speed limits were exceeded in any great way (talking a couple of miles over if anything on a couple of occassions) . Tyres were set to manufacturers recomended settings and chain is Scottoiled and nice and free and clean with the chain tensioned to "just nice" .

So I rode for a whole week like this and the best I got before that damned light came on ...............................................








125 miles . I do not know where you lot are getting 150 from before this light comes on . If I ride like a loon I get 113 , if I ride in a nice and safe and progressive fashion I get 120 and that is my average . This involves a few blarts to get into a space I want or some powered overtakes on the road and riding at a speed that makes me happy . Not getting anything anywhere near this 150 figure .

Me neither, from 2 tanks of fuel the average is around 120 mpg..

Am i doing something wrong, or does the whole org bar me and badger drive around in 6th at 40mph?

[ophic]

Originally Posted by saoralba

120 mpg..

does your bike have pedals?

Nooo stabalisers!

[skeetly]

Managed to get from betws to whitchurch and back to pentrefoelas before ful light came one 111 miles. Not trying to make it last...

Yeah that`s when your in progressive mode , i.e. "Getting a Wriggle on" , this 150 figure before reserve light comes on seems to be quite odd . Got to be a plausable reason for it like a bigger tank or slightly different engine , or lack of me doing something ........... it`s getting on my thruppeny bits now .

[skeetly]

I have always thought the go juice never lasted very long.
Mind, I don't ride the thing with a view to economy tbh. Bear in mind that over here we have lots of twisty bits, hills, single carriageway roads. The guys doing 150 miles might be on dual carriageways and motorways a lot more than we are.

Yeah , I never watch the fuel , light goes on , fuel goes in , twist the fun stick til it`s wrinkled dry , repeat process . I did my run on my commute to work though Skeetly so apart from a mile a day it was practically 30 miles of A55 .