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You know you're getting great gas mileage when . . .

I wouldn't consider myself skinny, nor fat for that matter. I am a big guy, at over 6'1 260 ish pounds. Best MPG I got was coming back from the dealership when I bought it, getting 74 mpg riding 2 up. Since then, my fuels been up and down, going as low as 58 mpg. I have not really taken it out for a long trip since the dealership ride, but mostly commuting with it. My last fill up, I went 124.4 miles on 2.05 gallons of gas ~ 60 mpg.
 
worst 66mpg best so far 74mpg uk mpg.
but I ride two up all the time combined weight with two of us 378lbs .
 
Monterey10 said:
Can you describe the type of riding you're doing to get such mileage. I commute to work, 11 miles of freeway, where I try to keep the bike at 64 mph or so.
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Stop and go, 55 mph and some very limited city driving ~ 20 mile commute to work. I tried going the 6th gear @ 55 route, seems though if I keep it in 5th @ 55mph I get better mpg.
 
eaglesx5 said:
Agreed... My average is 52 mpg. Although I must admit that I enjoy the bike and don't have efficiency in mind when commuting daily.

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I'm with you. I ride it pretty hard most of the time because it's fun. I doubt I've ever broke 60 MPG. Then again, I haven't checked lately, so it may be doing better than when it was new. The front suspension is certainly a lot better now than it was at first.
 
This is pretty standard for me. I took this picture this morning at work. I usually average low 70's.

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Gigs
 
I'm not a mechanic, but I get pretty decent mileage, and I weigh 220lbs. I've been watching Greg, and he does seem to be King of the MPG!

How do I know when it's going to be high? When I pass 100 miles and all the gas gauge segments are still black. After that, I look for getting past 200 BEFORE the final segment flashes.
Freeway rides at 65-70mph bring the mileage down no matter what.

Like Greg, 80mpg only comes from riding long twistly roads with NO stops at 50-55 mph in 6th gear!

Normal riding means shifting at 3K, but I'm trying to learn to shift at 2.8K. I worry about lugging the engine (shifting into too high a gear at too low a speed), but I note the owner's manual says you can be in 6th gear at 37mph! Wow. I watch the rev meter more than the speedometer.
 
StratTuner said:
Normal riding means shifting at 3K, but I'm trying to learn to shift at 2.8K. I worry about lugging the engine (shifting into too high a gear at too low a speed), but I note the owner's manual says you can be in 6th gear at 37mph! Wow. I watch the rev meter more than the speedometer.
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WOW!! When I'm at 50mph in 6th gear I can feel it lugging. It will still pull through fine but I would not want to go much lower than that.

I usually drop my first bar at 75 miles but I ride the interstate at 75mph. Don't wanna get ran over. I do fell very confindent about making 200 miles every tank no matter how I ride her.
 
I'm pretty sure that second bar is about to go out. Are you guy hydro-ing your tanks when you fill up. I usually just fill it to the where the hole for the filler is inside the tank.


Gigs
 
n30r3l0ad3d said:
I wouldn't consider myself skinny, nor fat for that matter. I am a big guy, at over 6'1 260 ish pounds. Best MPG I got was coming back from the dealership when I bought it, getting 74 mpg riding 2 up. Since then, my fuels been up and down, going as low as 58 mpg. I have not really taken it out for a long trip since the dealership ride, but mostly commuting with it. My last fill up, I went 124.4 miles on 2.05 gallons of gas ~ 60 mpg.
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Commuting my bike gets a solid 64 mpg. The longer the trip the better my milage (I think the bike chugs a lot of fuel starting cold).

My commute is 4-5 miles with 7 stop signs, 5 stop lights, and one round about. Top speed of about 50 mph, though probably averaging more like 35. Spend most of my moving time in 5th or 6th gear (I hit 6th between 40 and 45 mph.)

On my long weekend trip I pushed up into the 70 mpg range, that was riding half back roads at 50-60mph and the other half highway at 70-80 mph with a head wind.

I've no doubt that I could break into the 80's if I had self control enough to not pass people who are only doing 2-3 mph slower than me, and to keep to the back roads at 50mph.... maybe even 90's if I tucked in behind the windscreen... but then I do the math in my head and the cost difference in gas between 70 mpg and 80 mpg is half a penny per mile... (or a buck for 200 miles) and I can't bring myself to go that far to save a buck... Maybe if it was about range in a place that didn't have gas stations every 30 miles I'd be better behaved for gas milage.
 
You know your getting great gas mileage when...

Who cares what gas cost!

Averaging 75 mpg.

If we didnt run part ethanol mpg would be much higher.

Tom
 
It looks like we have another high mpg contender out there.

Ka' iulani
I'm curious if the 81 mpg average stays this high at 10,000 miles.


Ka' iulani (Honda NC700X) | Fuelly

#
Date
Miles
Gal.
MPG
Price
City %
Notes
8
7/7/13
193.3
2.67
72.5
3.799
0%
7
7/7/13
180.2
2.04
88.3
3.889
20%
6
7/3/13
39.8
0.38
104.7
4.099
30%
5
6/29/13
218.2
2.73
80.0
3.849
25%
4
6/18/13
152.9
2.08
73.5
3.779
20%
3
6/7/13
137.0
1.67
82.3
3.499
30%
2
6/5/13
180.6
2.28
79.4
3.779
30%
1
6/3/13
255.0
2.91
87.7
3.919
50%
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I can see getting 104.7 mpg going down a mountain and then topping off the tank.

This one just doesn't look right. I would side with creative filling here.
 
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turbodieseli4i6 said:
It looks like we have another high mpg contender out there.

Ka' iulani
I'm curious if the 81 mpg average stays this high at 10,000 miles.


Ka' iulani (Honda NC700X) | Fuelly

#
Date
Miles
Gal.
MPG
Price
City %
Notes
8
7/7/13
193.3
2.67
72.5
3.799
0%
7
7/7/13
180.2
2.04
88.3
3.889
20%
6
7/3/13
39.8
0.38
104.7
4.099
30%
5
6/29/13
218.2
2.73
80.0
3.849
25%
4
6/18/13
152.9
2.08
73.5
3.779
20%
3
6/7/13
137.0
1.67
82.3
3.499
30%
2
6/5/13
180.6
2.28
79.4
3.779
30%
1
6/3/13
255.0
2.91
87.7
3.919
50%
Showing 1 to 8 of 8 entries

I can see getting 104.7 mpg going down a mountain and then topping off the tank.

This one just doesn't look right. I would side with creative filling here.
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That one definitely is a contender. We'll see how it pans out over a year's time. The 104.7 is meaningless - too small of a sample in 39.8 miles.

Greg
 
I average 66.4 mpg and I ride mostly city traffic in the most densely populated county in Florida. My worst 62.4 and that was the first tank of gas I burned on this bike. My best 69.1 and 230 miles on that tank before I filled it. I am no light weight at 265 #s. I think 70+ is obtainable on a cruise.
 
turbodieseli4i6 said:
It looks like we have another high mpg contender out there.

Ka' iulani
I'm curious if the 81 mpg average stays this high at 10,000 miles.


Ka' iulani (Honda NC700X) | Fuelly

Showing 1 to 8 of 8 entries

I can see getting 104.7 mpg going down a mountain and then topping off the tank.

This one just doesn't look right. I would side with creative filling here.
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I have seen more than a few outright typo errors on Fuelly, where the person has entered an obviously wonky number. (which is curious in and of itself to me, as one would think that the outlook of a person bothering to put in all the fuelly figures in the first place would lean towards wanting to be accurate, and after a certain amount of fill ups over time, could easily see that their [arbitrarily made up example] "0.39" gal. fuel entry was goofed, when it should have been "3.90" in 250 miles travelled [/arbitrarily made up example] and figure out why their mpg for that tank went up by 700% lol)

As for the oddball examples from a small fuel top off and only a very short distance ridden etc., I'm torn between frowning at them with suspicion of deliberate skewing trying to tweak the numbers, or simply writing it off as an innocent: "well that's just the way it turned out, what was I supposed to do? Not make an entry, or try and use imaginary number math and hyper calculus phrenology to determine a "true" non-wonky result, or...?" lol

:D
 
L.B.S. said:
I have seen more than a few outright typo errors on Fuelly, where the person has entered an obviously wonky number. (which is curious in and of itself to me, as one would think that the outlook of a person bothering to put in all the fuelly figures in the first place would lean towards wanting to be accurate, and after a certain amount of fill ups over time, could easily see that their [arbitrarily made up example] "0.39" gal. fuel entry was goofed, when it should have been "3.90" in 250 miles travelled [/arbitrarily made up example] and figure out why their mpg for that tank went up by 700% lol)

As for the oddball examples from a small fuel top off and only a very short distance ridden etc., I'm torn between frowning at them with suspicion of deliberate skewing trying to tweak the numbers, or simply writing it off as an innocent: "well that's just the way it turned out, what was I supposed to do? Not make an entry, or try and use imaginary number math and hyper calculus phrenology to determine a "true" non-wonky result, or...?" lol

:D
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I actually found with my new phone I couldn't put in decimal points... rather than futzing with it at the gas station I put in some numbers that were off but enough to remind me what it was (kept the receipt) so I skewed my gas milage bad, but I went back and fixed it later.

I'm disappointed I didn't get the mileage for my last fill up, I think it was another 70+mpg tank, but I didn't record anything on it.
 
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