I bought my blue and yellow 06 1000rr in September, broke it in and I'm only getting about 120 miles to a tank.I get less riding highway too. I asked the service department at the dealership and they said the engine actually has to get a little dirty, that the engine is so clean, it's chugging the gas withough restriction.Anyone have a say on this one? What should I be getting?

 

The engine needs to get dirty to get fuel economy???? Hmmmm. I'm going to leave that one alone.

But I average around 120-160 miles per tank on my 600RR depending on how I ride, how the weather is, how long I let it warm up, what gas I used, etc. etc. I have a very bad habit about keeping track of my gas milage FAR too much than I should. But I won't bore you with all that......no.......wait maybe I will.

But 120 miles seems about right, maybe squeeze out a little more, but, were you blinking red on your gas guage or did you have a bar or two left?, because when the last bar starts flashing, you usually have about .9 gallons left in the tank. So getting 120 miles out of roughly 3.8 gallons isn't too bad, but it could be better. (31.5 miles per gallon by the way).

Now, as an experiment (because I was curious), I wanted to squeeze 50+ mpg out of this bike, just to see if it was possible. And yeah, it is. If you ride REALLY REALLY REALLY easy, and shift every few miles per hour and maintain an average of about 35mph, never exceeding that, you can expect 56 mpg. BUT - That's no fun at all. So, another experiment followed, and when you ride like a bat out of hell, enjoying the sweet symphony of 15,000 rpms and pushing hard, expect 24-28 mpg (which is still freaking awesome).

Oh, and if you ride on the highway a lot, you usually get less fuel economy because you are always constantly around a higher rpm (7,000-9,000 rpm), depending how fast you are going.

Hope this helps, have fun and be safe.

 

Yellow light comes on around 90 miles for me , but I usually keep my motor spinning above 6000 RPM.

 

the "blue and yellow" get the MPG! Sorry dude. Get yourself a black one.

 

When my blue/yellow '06 1K was new (under 1k miles)I was getting about 30mpg. Since I've past 3k miles and changed to REPSOL oil, the mileage has increased to 35-37mpgAVERAGE. Sounds like your bike is normal!

 

Thanks!! I appreciate it!! I knew theservice guy was full of $h!t when he told me that, I just wanted to get a second opinion. I did the experiment thing too. I rode real soft for the first 600 miles (break in), I've got about 1100 on it now and since I the 650 mark, I've been ***** out(riding within my limits which is about 37% of what the bike could possibly do) and noticed a little drop but not much.

 

Depends how ya ride, I keep mine 4-5k on the freeway and can get 140 mpl = ( miles per light) lol when my light comes on. so figure per tank 170-180.

 

120 m/tank actually sounds bout right. i used to get the same in mine, not sure now that i put on the new sprockets other lil mods

 

My 06 1000 RR's mileage matches dogg's exactly. 140 mpl when I take it easy on the highway. My first tank went 116 mi while I was breaking it in, so you're not too far off from what I got.

 

I bought my bike in November and I now have 3000 miles on it and I have been getting 150-165 mpl. Even blast up the moutain net pretty good milage for me.