whats your average mpg/bikes range?

[to v or not to v]

im averaging about 56mpg. i guess i ride far too slow
the tank holds 19ltrs, so about 230 mile range.
no bad for a litre bike i guess?

are modern bikes better or worse? do all the euro regs cock things up?
they certainly did with diesel cars
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[xX-Alex-Xx]

Get about 50mpg on my 750 which is usually a spirited commute…
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[DJP]

According to Fuelly (yeah, I'm that boring) my 1250 Bandit has averaged 44mpg over 20k miles.

With a best of 55mpg with gentle(ish) touring and a worst of 39mpg during London (hectic) commuting.

That said, I never try for economy nor do I thrash. I generally aim to make smooth, rapid "Progress".
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[arry]

About 47mpg out of the R Nine T with an approximate range of 145 miles before the light comes on.

Enfield - dunno, I count it in decades.

[Kris]

32mpg, MT10. Range of around 110 miles
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[martin734]

I get between 40-45 mpg which gives me a range of about 250-280 miles.
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[wr6133]

Gsxr 1000 low 30's to the gallon, can manage mid 40's but bollocks to riding it like that. Usually looking for a petrol station at about 120 miles.

The trials Enfields vary between 40 to 50 mpg but thats because they get hammered and the engines are not stock. On the 350 thats about 120-150 miles. On the 535 with the pissy little tank 70 miles at best. If the 350 was stock i think it would do 80+ mpg so around 240 miles between fills.

The Enfield 535gt even ridden hard rarely gets under 70mpg, 80+ is easily achievable. I usually look to fill up around 150 miles and its far from empty. I reckon if you really tried you could do 100mpg on this bike.

[davebike]

78 to 83 MPG 14 liter tank give up to 250miles
NC750X dct

I told it will do 100MPG if you cruse at 55 on a motorway but !
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[JustinW]

85mpg, 300 miles on my Honda CB500x. Mainly riding A and B roads.
It started off at 80mpg but keeps rising as I get smoother, holding more speed into corners.

[blurredman]

Average 61 on both MZ ETZ 250's, (I once got 80! )
51 on the Suzuki TS185
47 on Honda CX500.
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[ThunderGuts]

My VFR, despite supposedly being thirsty, averages around 55mpg (according to the display anyway, but it seems about right). I have seen it as low as in the 20s (seriously busy urban traffic) but never above 60mpg. Generally only gets used in the sticks so rarely spends any time stationary / slow traffic. 21 litre tank means I can get around 200 miles between fill-ups, but I prefer to leave it at least half full most of the time so if I decide to go out for an evening ride at short notice, I don't have to faff about finding a petrol station.

The C90 is too recently acquired to know for sure, but I did cover around 70 miles on 2 litres of fuel. The tank is under 4 litres and I'm still getting my head around the fuel guage accuracy, but general consensus is 80 miles is a "safe" range on the C90 (assuming a more realistic "average" mpg). Looking at small fuel containers I can carry on the bike . . .
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[Fat Angry Scotsman]

Zontes ZT 125-U

My little 125cc has a 12.5L tank and depending on what I did with it, where I went and how I rode it I get anywhere between 190 miles (68 mpg) to 280 miles (101 mpg) out a tank.

Also bear in mind I am a 24 stone (152 kg) guy, so someone half my weight would probably get way better fuel economy and performance.

The little 125cc can get me up to 60mph without issue, I think someone lighter would have no problems breezing the lofty heights of 70mph.
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

v-reg zx9r: mpg guessing 40-45, on a mix of back lanes (30%), unclassified marked roads / B-roads (30%), A-roads (20%) and town (20%). With this sort of riding, and depending on how "enthusiastic" I've been, range is about 160, but I'm getting anxious at 150 and getting ready to start groping for reserve. Reckon in summer, if it's not too hot, I'll spend about £50 a week on fuel, easy.
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[UncleFester]

Z1000SX / 47mpg give or take over the last 2 or 3 years.
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[PotatoHead202...]

VFR1200 gets around 38mpg at the moment, mainly A and B roads. Albeit I do keep it in 2nd and 3rd most of the time as it doesn't like lugging on corners.
CBF500 gets around 60mpg on similar roads.
K1300 used to get (indicated as the only one with a computer) 60mpg in the 50mph speed camera zone on the A34. Otherwise high 40s regardless of how hard it was ridden.
Worst I've got was on my old Tuono which was roughly 25mpg and I wasn't riding it particularly fast. Major reason why I sold it tbh.
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[MCN]

K1300 riding like gramps computer says 50mpg (tank range says 250 miles.

Litre bike S1000RR.. who gives a Fumbled Fuck? The rubber won't wear it's self off the tyres.
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[Easy-X]

A modern EFI bike that has a closed-loop mode will be very efficient at cruising on long runs compared to older bikes. Most of the emissions stuff revolves around "sailing close to the wind" with regards to leaning out the fuel mixture.

<addendum> 75mpg on a long run
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[ThunderGuts]

My old Street Twin used to manage mid 80s to the gallon on a run, even with panniers on. Despite a tiny tank, this gave it a 200-ish mile range.
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[hellkat]

Nah, dunno about mpg, havent bothered to work that out.

I just know that "around town" (i.e., in London traffic) I can get approximately 100 miles out of the Sportster tank (small). So I reset the trip meter every time I fill the tank. I know this because I once managed to run out JUST as I was about to pull onto Tower Bridge. Luckily I always keep "reserve" in reserve, so I had enough to get to a gas station in Bermondsey.

But if out on long trips, I have managed to drag it out to 120 miles(ish) before piking out and dropping into a gas station

Being a dyed-in-the-wool townie, I'm always nervous about running out of gas in the middle of bloody nowhere. I'd probably just sit by the road and cry until someone came past

Mind you, these days I could call out the Stonehenge consort if I got stranded halfway across Salisbury Plain ... but I know where all the gas stations are on the A303 now anyway all the way down to Shaftesbury, at least ... anywhere else in the countryside, I tend towards extreme anxiety and rarely let it get beyond 100 miles.
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[Freddyfruitba...]

55 mpg on my R1200RS.

Does anyone else find it odd that everyone in the UK refers to their fuel consumption in miles per gallon, despite the fact that nobody in the UK has bought petrol in gallons since 1994?

Brits.
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[Serendipity]

[Tdibs]

50.6 mpg fazer 1000

53.5 mpg xj600

Just looking on fuelly, but thats only over a few hundred miles, need to put more on to get a better reading.
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