Fuel Consumption Difference?

[KingKong]

Hello

I am new to biking, and like all of you am in passionate love with it; a dream come true for me to finally sit my hairy behind on one after a decade's worth of dreaming!

Anyway, to the point, I currently have a yzf r125, which costs me apprx. £14 to fill up on fuel every 100 miles.

Would anyone be kind enough to advise me how much more a CBR/GSXR 600 would set me back on a full tank of petrol, please?

Thank you

[N cee thirty]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

CB500, 200 miles on £20. Something's not quite right with your 125, methinks, you're only getting about 45mpg

CBR600 varies on model (and obviously how you ride it) - between 43 and 75MPG : https://www.fuelly.com/motorcycle/honda/cbr600%20f4

GSXR 600 is around the same spread : https://www.fuelly.com/motorcycle/suzuki/gsxr%20600

Make sure you select UK units, under the logo on the top left.
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[Quornholio]

Depends what price he's paying for fuel don't forget, unless someone knows the tank size?

[herulach]

Theres something wrong with your bike.

Assuming you're not somewhere with insanely expensive petrol £14 will get you what 2.2 gallons? (£1.40/l) which means you're doing less than 50mpg. Even going everywhere in 1st & 2nd you shouldn't be getting anywhere near that low - I'd have guessed that bike would be in the 80-90mpg range.

My fuelly is here for the fazer.
https://www.fuelly.com/driver/keithjeb/fzs600
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[J Charles]

My GSXR 600 used to do about 130 miles on £17 fill ups.

My Triumph does about 130 to £12, roughly 59mpg.

As before though, depends how much fuel is where you fill up.
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[lihp]

130p per litre.

My r6 gets 145 miles from 15 pound. And that.is riding it hard most of the time.

It's also a little rich. No way your 125 is that poor economy

[Muscle Bike Rider]

Defo something wrong there mate, for a 125 you should be getting 75mpg+ My Divvy 600 gets about 50mpg average town riding which works out about £12 for 110 miles roughly, my Varadero 125 gets about 80+ mpg average commuting through the city.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Looks like you should be getting at least 75mpg...

https://www.fuelly.com/motorcycle/yamaha/yzf%20r125
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[Drake]

[KingKong]

Hmm...I may have miscalculated things.

I bought it 5 weeks ago, with 0 miles on the clock.

Have ridden it 560miles now, having filled up the tank 3 times, each time spending close to £14. Fuel cost me roughly £1.39/ltr.

Does that seem like the right kind of figures?

[andy_uk]

That works out at around 84mpg which does sound better
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[Rogerborg]

Well, better, but I get 80mpg+ on my 305 when I granny it, or nearer 70mpg when pegging it on a ride out with Big Boy Bikes, so it's still not great. My 125 gets over 100mpg with the throttle pegged all day.

To answer your original question, I can't. But there have been a few folks on here shocked at how bad the fuel economy is on 600s, even when grannied. Bear in mind that economy was about the last thing on the designers' minds; they turn fuel into heat and noise very efficiently though.
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[KingKong]

[Codemonkey]

[Quornholio]

[Dazbo666]

From memory, approx £15-£17 gets me around 160-180 miles on the Bandit

...although I may give that fuelly site ago, cos I can't really be bothered doing all the calculations for myself
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[Acemastr]

[DrDonnyBrago]

[0l0dom0l0]

Got 60mpg on the Fazer riding to the BBQ and back

With a pillion. It seems to make no difference with or without one!

Expect about 45mpg from a sports 600.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Most big bikes seem to give me about 45mpg in general use.

Exceptions have been the GPZ500 (60+mpg if the speed was kept below 85) and the ZZR600 which does high 50s normally (and keeping the cruising speed to around 75 on long motorway journies has given 64mpg).

All the best

Keith
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[KingKong]

[P.addy]

[Mrjoolz]

I filled up thir morning, rode to work and back today=76 miles. I pulled into same garage I filled up this morning and filled her back up. Cost me £7.32 for 76 miles.

Bike is ZZR600

That's pretty good me thinks. Unless bike is running really lean

[Teflon-Mike]

You spent, how many thousand quid, on 'posey' sports stlyed commuter bike, with fancy plastics round it, brand new, which you will loose how many thousand in depreciation on, when you come to sell it......

Yet, in the face of that inordinate expense, you are worried about the extra few quid per hundred miles a 600 sporty-bike might cost you in petrol?!?!?

Well, believe me, after the hammering you'll take on the depreciation, if not the buy-out penalties of any finance deal, then the insurance on a bigger, sporty 600, in one of the highest risk insurance groups, THEN taken the hit of the inordinately higher maintenence costs, starting with tyres at £200 a pair, as a newbie you'll probably square off sqquidding it about within 2000 miles, then the cost of oil changes and general servicing, on a bike with four times the number of cylinders, hence spark plugs and oil capacity and 'stuff'.....

The FUEL COST will seem pretty fucking irrelevant, mate!

There is a rough equivilence between overall running costs and bikes power; doesn't always follow, big heavy bruisers can eat consumeables, without so much power, but then so can hi-po lightweights..... BUT your R125 makes aproximately 14bhp... CBR600... anything from about 75 to 105 depending on age variant, GSX-R6, again dependent on year, anything from about 80 -100....

Lets say for easy maths, 84bhp... = 6x the power of your R125... that equates to roughly six times the cost per mile.

R125 ought to be returning around 75mpg ish, CBR600 book says something like 50ish, GSX-R a little lower I guess.... so POSSIBLY using twice the fuel...... So you're 14 fill up will be a £30 fill up.... but the kicker will not be in that 'pocket-money' difference, but when you need to go get new tyres, and are moaning you only had new ones three months ago, likewise with services etc,m which wont be 'pocket money', but hammer the credit card time! And JUST when you have cleared it (if you are lucky) be time to hammer it AGAIN!

BUT; if you can afford over four grand for a 125, and the depreciation on it; SHOULDN'T really be a worry.... you obviously have the money to burn!
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