hard riding i get about 140-160 but norm. every day riding like work back store ect... about 126-138 mostly because of letting it get to temp before i go anywhere

 

You get better mpg with hard riding ??

 

When my low fuel goes on and I fill it I usually can put in a bit over 3 gallons. I only filled it a few times but it seems like I get around 43 or so per gallon and I do not ride very hard normally.

 

All right. Enough speculation. The manual claims our tank is 4.8 gallons, with a .9 gallon reserve. First, the reason your reserve light goes on and off is elevation. Same thing happens in cars. Depending on where the pump and sensor are located depends on how much gas it thinks you have. So riding up hill you might "have more gas" the downhill and vice versa. Second. When you put the nozzle in your tank, the shut off for the nozzle is low. If you pull it out a bit, and pump it by hand, you'll get about another .5 to .75 gallons. There is gas still in your tubes too. It's not a lot, but on a machine that's only a couple hundred pounds, that couple feet of tubing can be a lot. And the system isn't perfect. Find two gas tanks that are exactly alike, and you'll be god in the fabrication world. There are also ways to get good gas mileage driving quickly. Acceleration and braking are what lowers the mpg. You can cruise at 80 and get better mpg than starting and stopping up to 50. Just my 2 cents.

 

yeah beacuse my work is only like 2 miles away from my house so i almost spend more time letting my bike get to temp then i do riding it. so yes i do get better mpg riding harder.

 

I drive a diesel car that gets great mileage, but if I let it idle a few times during a tank full my mileage might vary by a few miles per gallon and that is with a much larger tank. So if you idle for a while and then only drive a few miles I can see where it would have a major impact on your mileage. Stop and go are pretty bad too.

With such a small tank a little variance in the amount of time idling, or riding stop and go especially stop and go where you ride hard can have a large impact on what you get.

Check your mileage on a long trip where you cruise on the highway and you will usually get your best mileage even if you drive faster than you should.

I think some of the confusion also is that in my area there are no vapor recovery fuel nozzles. I know in major metropolitan areas they have them and you cannot see the fuel going in. In my area and I would guess most rural areas the fuel nozzle is just a narrow metal tube that you can see how full your tank is and fill slowly until it is close to completely full.

 

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