Reeeeeeesult!!!

I finally got the GS below 35 to the gallon.

It hasn't been easy. Many short journeys at full chat and about three
times as many "why not you only live once" moments on the way but I have
done it. I am a man.


Innit lovely out today? I am going out again now, not because I have
to, although I do but simply because I can and <30mpg beckons. I may
not be long.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache belched forth and ejected the
following:

LOL

 

Whinging Courier wrote

It has been kin hard work I tell you. Those things really are
economical and the more I ride it the more I like it.

Although coming home with a *huge* battery on the back for the mongvan
today made for some interesting differences to slow speed wibbling that
I don't want to repeat, too often.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache belched forth and ejected the
following:

The absolute worst I got out of mine (a 450) was 42mpg.

Well done.

I took the rat out the other day. I got just up the road and it was
squirming all over the place. I thought I must've been a nutter to ride
it before because the handling was so bad but when I got back I noticed
there was 10psi in the front and 15 in the back.

Have you got your Mongvan back on the road now then?

 

Whinging Courier said...

Wtf measures fuel consumption on a motorcycle?

 

Whinging Courier wrote

It has been interesting round here for the last couple of days, we have
had rain but not enough to wash the roads clean in a few places. Much
caution on routes not recently travelled is the order of the day.

Nearly. The new battery is having a top up charge as we speak and once
running reliably it has got to go for it's mot. Next week sometime
probably.

 

64 miles on 13 litres

 

Lozzo wrote

Gixxers are that bad you don't want to talk about it then? I can
understand that.

 

Spete wrote

On a GS500? Kin Respec' man.

 

I make that 22mpg

 

<waves>
I log all fuel in all our vehicles, I find the figures useful in a 'sad git'
kind of way.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Lozzo belched forth and ejected the following:

The trip meter.

 

steve auvache said...

I emptied the fuel tank on my Firestorm completely in 63 miles. 17 litre
tank so what's that in mpg?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache belched forth and ejected the
following:

I reckon it'll be safe to venture out properly in two or three weeks.

Taking it to Cornwall?

 

Lozzo wrote

About 20 I think.

 

Whinging Courier wrote

It's safe now, if you are practiced at riding in fewer than ideal
conditions.

This is plan B.

Plan A includes having a motorcycle trailer hung on the back.

 

steve auvache said...

16.6 mpg according to my calculator.

That was a nearly new bike too, not some hanging old nail that had been
thrashed to death. I knew VTRs were bad on fuel, but that's taking the
piss.

 

Bandit 12 owners, in a way. The current steed returns less than 80
miles to reserve even when the airbox isn't full of mice.

Precisely the way. Forget to zero it and yer B12 man is fucked with a
sharp stick.

There are two options: fill it again at the first opportunity (it'll
prolly need filling anyway) and remember to zero the fucker this time
- or ride till reserve time, then biddle about like a girl, sweating
increasingly heavily for 25 miles or so - then push it, sweating
buckets.

 

Pip said...

I owned a Firestorm, possibly the worst motorcycle for someone with a
bad memory to own.

 

Pip wrote

Heh.

Why do we do that, the ride like a girlie for a while and then go silly
bit? I certainly do it.