200+ miles to the tank is possible on a Busa.

Thankfully, the 10th petrol station I stopped at this evening was open.

200.1 miles since I filled up this afternoon

 

Pah, I took the Versys to 233 miles on 19.3 litres today - that's about
normal. Works out about 54mpg. Kawasaki said the tank only holds 19
litres, they lied to me.

Strangely enough this is the only bike I have owned that I have ever
checked the fuel consumption on, and only then to see if I can
regularly keep it above 55mpg.

 

Coo. A large displacement Suzuki that /will/ pass a petrol station.

Never buy a Bandit.

 

According to the manual, the light comes on at 3.5 litres left to go.
As, according to the display I was averaging 11 miles/litre, that gave
me 38 miles. As the light came on at 167 miles, that means that I
probably had about 5 miles left when I filled up.

Of course, I only managed to squeeze 20 litres into the 21 litre tank,
so either I can't fill the top due to the shape, or there was 10 miles
more fuel in the tank than I thought.

I suspect the former.

The busa is typically giving 40mpg with my usual mix or town and
country, and last night's 50mpg was a bit of an exception. Having
finally found fuel and pointed the bike towards home, the mpg took a bit
of a nose dive for the remainder of the trip.

 

Didn't bother going beyond third, then?

 

Not much point, other than to change the noise

 

I got 150 miles out of the R1, quite easily

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Nige,

'Candygram for Mongo'

R1

 

That's some detour!

 

I've had 180 miles from a tank on mine.

 

I have had 150 miles per tank from the fireblade in granpa mode

in nutter mode less than 90

 

I got the flashy display thingy again today[1] and when I filled up 25
miles later it would only take 18.3 litres - still worked out at 54mpg
as well. The last two days have seen me riding up and down dual
carriageways and motorways in search of a new motah (see other post).

[1] The most fuel it's take in two days since Chimay last year