beemerdons
Certifiable Old Fart
+1, Gunny; Right you are Wheatie, nothing beats a girlie man fight between "Dumb and Dumber"!
rpm range for best mileage
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madmike2
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Don.....Don.....Don....are you SURE you want to join them and make it a trio?+1, Gunny; Right you are Wheatie, nothing beats a girlie man fight between "Dumb and Dumber"!
Nicely put, Mark. :clapping:
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JT Pedersen
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Hi All,
You're quite right...not enough data points. Been around the 'forum block' for years, so the range of responses was not unexpected
. Sometimes though you simply pick up a tidbit you hadn't thought of. I think in that category, the one thing I'd forgotten was the US/Imperial gallon variable. Otherwise, I'm never surprised when grandpas with Town Cars getting 45 mpg show up either.What you will most likely see on a bike I ride are Continental tires hard enough for me to get 25K life. Soft, sticky, 7K is what I typically got on the ST. I figure more of the same or less with the FJR. After all, the bike's there to work for me, not the other way around.
Cheer,
JT
To each his own, but that style of riding would drive me absolutely NUTS! :crazy:
I used to get almost 40mpg when the bike was new until I installed the PC-III and that dropped the mpg a few. A more normal mileage is 35-37mpg for mixed highway and city commuting with crap gas that's sold around here. It's important to note that I calculate mileage manually because the bike computer no longer calculates correctly with the PC-III installed.
I did take a 200 mile trip last year with my newbie rider wife and some Harley friends on interstate and rural highways with some city riding. I followed the group on the ride and let them set the pace, which consisted of "make grandma proud" acceleration from stop lights and never exceeding the speed limit. I was shocked to see my mileage at 47mpg for the trip! I suppose if my goal were best mileage, I'd ride like that but I went bonkers the whole time because I couldn't properly twist the right grip!
supertankerm60a3
Well-known member
I Usually get 42 +/- 2 MPG making a 22 mile commute at 70 MPH with 5 stoplights in the middle twice a day. I have got 47 IF i use a whole tank all at once at , without bags, oh, and windscreen down, which I have only done once. Evaporation after shutdown (volatile fuel stored over hot engine gets warm) can cost a substantial amount of fuel if you are making a lot of short trips. When I go out with other fast riders my mileage goes down to about 36-33 in canyon country.
General rule of thumb: The slower you go the better your mileage... right into insanity!
General rule of thumb: The slower you go the better your mileage... right into insanity!
SkooterG
Purveyor of Crooked Facts
JT Pedersen
Well-known member
I mis-spoke earlier, saying, "What you will most likely see on a bike I ride are Continental tires..."
NOT.
Sticky, Grippy, my preference, with heavy preference for Metzeler's Z series.
That's what I get for using a small mobile screen in a rush...
NOT.
Sticky, Grippy, my preference, with heavy preference for Metzeler's Z series.
That's what I get for using a small mobile screen in a rush...
SkooterG
Purveyor of Crooked Facts
supertankerm60a3
Well-known member
The tank is not closed, it is vented. it vents to either a charcoal canister with a pressure regulating valve (14 inches of water to be exact) or it vents to the atmosphere without a valve since the valve in located in the canister. The tank is not a closed, sealed, object. Infact, prior to the mandating of evaporative emission controls, 20% of hydrocarbon emissions were from evaporation. all this in a car were the tank wasn't even mounted directly over the hot engine.
RaYzerman19
Go Wings!
Your mileage will be better in cooler, high humidity environments with cooler fuel. It all expands more once combustion takes place.
As well as the air being partially saturated by the % of RH and the O2 content being higher in the more dense (cooler) air.
SkooterG
Purveyor of Crooked Facts
Well on that we can agree. However, I don't agree at all with your assertion:
On really hot days here in Arizona (110+), if my tank is on the fuller side with the FJR in the sun I will see a few drops of fuel on the ground from the vent tube. But there is never any fuel smell in my closed garage after a shut down. Nor do I see any change in fuel mileage in hot temps with short trips. So any fuel that evaporates is completely insignificant in my not so humble opinion.
I don't agree with that either. The engine may produce more max power in those conditions, but the denser air also leads to higher air resistance which lowers fuel mileage. At least that tends to be my experience.
And didn't you mean 'low humidity'?
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ionbeam
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beemerdons
Certifiable Old Fart
SkooterG
Purveyor of Crooked Facts
Oh, mi ******* step-pappy, you should NOT have posted that!
Guess who is going to pull it out every time you take a thread off topic with your first grade drivel about sheep, goats, burros, and manatees! You have opened Pandora's Box!
:finger:
Guess who is going to pull it out every time you take a thread off topic with your first grade drivel about sheep, goats, burros, and manatees! You have opened Pandora's Box!
:finger:
Bugnatr
Well-known member
Ride the high country of Colorado. My 04 goes from 41+ to 50+ mpg when riding above 8,000 feet
HotRodZilla
GOD BLESS AMERICA
If it wasn't for first grade drivel about sheep, goats, burros, manatees, pictures of you with ****s, and the occasional kick to Bust's apple sack, a lot of us wouldn't even come to this site.
