I picked up an 88 Hurricane 1000 last year from ebay. Seller promised me the bike ran great. It only had 9500 miles. NOT! I just had the carbs rebuilt, master cylinder and slave cylinder rebuilt and new fork seals put in to a tune of $1900. WAA! Bike runs great but I`m only getting 24 mpg. I have an original review of the bike and they got between 33-40mpg. I`ve had 6 other Honda`s and they all got around 40mpg. Any comments?

 

What are your driving conditions? Many short trips, engine not fully warming? What is the gearing?
I'm getting 42-44 mpg with my '93 equiped with V&H system, Dynojet kit and K&N filter, stock gearing.
Almost forgot, your milage will be affected by the setting of the idle mixture screws. When I first put the exhaust system on I opened them by 1/4 turn. My milage went to 38-40. They're back at the stock setting.

 

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The local Honda dealer completely rebuilt all the carbs last week. I put 86 miles on it and it used 3.5 gallons of gas. The bike is completely stock as far as I know.

 

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh
Did they leave out half the jets !! Fuel leak ??
Mine does 16 K's to a litre, or 10 miles to a quart, so 40 MPG. And that's at all sorts of speeds, openroad and town. Openroad on a trip at 80MPH I'll get 46-48MPG

 

I just filled up and I recon I got 45mpg more or less and that is mostly cross country twisties! Check behind the bike when you ride , is there a long trail of gas on the road!!

 

rwl, first.. I'd check it through a couple tanks. Make sure you're getting 24MPG.

Second, I'd make sure the carbs are synced. Maybe call Honda and just ask if they synced 'em, maybe?

24MPG seems pretty bad. I get about 33-36 when I ride hard, but when I ride normal (once), I got 40MPG. I'd say 40 is about avg.
(weird, that's about what you said it was in the "review")

 

Another thought comes to mind - if you had a full tank when you took the bike in, the mechanics could have drained some off to wash parts, (or just stole it) I've had it happen myself..............
Not a good thought, but it happens.............

 

The Honda dealer completely rebuilt all 4 carbs, flushed the tank and lines, synched the carbs and filled it up w/91 octane gas. The bike runs great but I can`t figure out how it could be getting such poor mileage. My car gets better mileage.I also had the master cylinder and the slave cylinder rebuilt and new fork seals for a tune of $1900.0. They told me the main jet had been screwed in all they way and broken off. They had to drill it out.

 

Maybe they didn't really fill it the whole way? I know I can run mine on the overfull mark on the gauge for at least a gallon... maybe 2.
Just a thought....

 

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Could be. I didn`t check the gas level when I picked it up.