Hondo64d
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1st tank was 40 mpg. Not horrible, but I had hoped for better. 2nd tank was 47mpg. Now, that's more like it! Can I expect even better?
John
John
1st tank was 40 mpg. Not horrible, but I had hoped for better. 2nd tank was 47mpg. Now, that's more like it! Can I expect even better?
John
since my break in period ended i have been hovering around 47 or so MPG, not bad, my YZF600r used to get 55ish, so i miss it.
On a slightly off topic note, anyone notice that you can get about 100 miles out of the first two bars on the gas gauge and then it drops bars like crazy after that?
I haven't noticed on mine if it's like that but i will next time. I'm frankly not surprised though. I think Yamahas gas guages have a tendency to be as accurate as their speedos. My 07 Attak snowmobile is the same way- speedo seems to be 5-10% fast, and i've driven 20 miles with the low fuel light on and it still only took 7 gallons (keep in mind snomomobiles have 10 gallon tanks and that Genesis 150 in a sled averages 15-17 mpg). One of our older ones, a two stroke, burned through half a tank in 75 miles and the second half in 25......... My truck is the same way as well. With everything being electronic these days anyway, i don't understand why manufacures can't better calibrate them....since my break in period ended i have been hovering around 47 or so MPG, not bad, my YZF600r used to get 55ish, so i miss it.
On a slightly off topic note, anyone notice that you can get about 100 miles out of the first two bars on the gas gauge and then it drops bars like crazy after that?
How do you get that? My first tank was like 26. now i'm up to about 37.
Third fill on the new bike... Still on break-in. I got 45.9 mpg. Not bad at all. I expect this to increase to 50 +/- 2 by the time I hit 1500 miles. 452 miles as of this morning.... Need more riding time!
Anyone get better milage with different grades of gas? Reg. Plus. or Super
I usually try to buy Shell gas as well, I seem to get the best results with it. Also, you should get better mileage if you find a station that doesnt mix ethanol. It's getting harder and harder though to find stations that don't have the "Mixed with up to 10% ethanol" Ethanol has less energy than gasoline and thus decreses your power for a given amount of fuel so you burn more fuel to make up the power. I don't know how much of a difference it makes overall. If you consider that it has 10% less kick and that most internal combustion engines are only about 20% efficent at best: .2*.1 = .02 or 2% power loss.......... whether or not that's the case, who knows. I've heard of people getting noticably better mileage running non-ethanol blended gas, my Durango on the other hand doesn't seem to have a care in the world as long as it's gas, i still average just plain sh!tty with it.........Not with grades but with stations and their additives. I get the worst mileage out of Gulf and a close second (worse) with Exxon or Mobil (same jerks) but with Shell/Texaco I get the best gas mileage. I've tested this with my older bike as well as three cages using a rotaying fillup schedule between the three brands. I tried to do this during the same temperate months with each vehicle. With the Tundra (V8) I used to have, it was 2 - 3 mpg difference. May not sound like much but we're talking about a truck that gets 15 mpg on a good drive!
Try them all, more than once and see what you find. I'm curious to see if it follows my findings. Needless to say, I only stop at Shell/Texaco unless I can't find one.
Also, fill up the earliest in the day you can when the fuel is colder. You get more in a gallon than when it is warmer. This is just simple thermal dynamics given the expansion rate of fuel per degree of temperature.