MPG test on FJR

[Clark Kent]

CK wrote:

My post was in jest.

If you say so, that's good enough for me. This stuff is only for fun.

Now we need to get an intervention going for you. I see your avitar is a LanceAir of some type. Could be a Columbia, but looks to be too small. The paint job indicates maybe a 350 or a 400. I can't see the gear so I'm not sure if it's a retract or fixed.

Anyway, we need to get you into rehab. so you can get away from the Lance Airs and into something that will land in the grass, or sand, where it really matters. If you need to go fast your going to need a "Piper Jet"

CK

 

[James Burleigh]

I found your experiment quite informative. For the 99.9% of us that love the bike , like to gun it, and still have some interest in analytics on fuel efficiency and the PC3 impact - thanks. :yahoo: (no interpretation needed)

Gunnysack. I mean Ginny. No, Givi. Givi trunk.... [What are we supposed to do now? I forget. When TWN gets back from his YoYoYoSemite ride maybe he can help out.]

Anyway, with gas prices here in the Bay Area at national highs (Hi!--sorry, I thought I was in the Mouseketeer Club for a minute there....)--anyway, with sky-high gas prices, as a daily commuter I need to care about gas mileage, and I do...be doobie doobie (that reminds me of a favorite youthful pastime, of my friends I mean :glare: ). Where was I? And ever since I found my fifth gear, I'm luggin' it on down the freeway in fifth all the time, and watching the gas-o-meter drop a little slower. But I also like to gun it, as MidLife says. So it's all good. When I'm Clark, it's fuel efficiency; when I'm M.C. Man, it's all about throttling the goose.

Jb

[Hey, I'm home sick this weekend with a cold, heavily medicated with over-the-counter meds. So I can't be expected to make sense, can I? :blink: ]

 

[Midlifefjr]

That being said - when I am riding across Nevada to WFO 6 I intend to burn prodigious (sp) amounts of fuel driving at well over the double nickel.

 

[murf]

Not a scientific test, but I averaged just under 50 MPG on a round trip from MN to CA. Slowest speed was 45 MPH in a heavy downpour, fastest was 80-90 MPH across the Mojave. Most times the speed was between 70-75 MPH.

 

[05fjrBluedevil]

:dribble:

I must be doing it all wrong, I think I am down three bars and have only run 86 miles.

I tihnk I am lucky to make it to 200 miles before needing to fill up....

This is since I have installed the complete Dale Walker hole shot system...

I would like to increase the milage by about 3to7 miles a gallon.....

Now I have noticed, some back firing sound as i decel, which i guess means I am running to rich or need to pull the cans and re seal them to the mid pipes...

But I will say that not one Deer has crossed my path since i have installed this system!!!!!!!!

BTW, I have seen a deer cross in front of me daily for the past year and a half until I put this system on...

maybe they think I am a lion or something

But back to the fuel consumption, I do need to change the map or move to the slow lane!

 

[kballowe]

Mine's factory stock and has only 3,000 miles showing on the odometer. Combined (rural 2-lane/interstate) riding produces actual mileage in the mid to upper 40's - which pleasantly surprised me.

Checked three tanks in a row on two separate occasions.

Does that "Avg mpg" readout on the instrument cluster reasonably correlate to "actual" fuel mileage?

 

[AZrider]

Just for the hell of it.

I decided to fill the tank, drive as usual and here are results from two measurement for what it's worth.

Tank #1. 173 miles. Took 3.7 gals. Filled to base of filler tube. MPG indicator read 52 mpg. Actual 173/3.7= 46.7 mpg.

Tank #2. 162 miles. Took 3.4 gals. Filled to base of filler tube. MPG indicator read 50 mpg. Actual 162/3.4= 47.6 mpg.

Bike was on center stand when filled. Used same pump at Gas City in town. Driving varied for both in city and 80 mile ride into Tucson over twisty Hwy 83 and I-10 freeway. If this procedure is accurate then my 2007 is getting about 47 mpg with a PC-III. There was no attempt to try to get good mileage. Today there were winds out of the west about 25-30 Kts with gusts to 40. It was a wild ride for sure. The other tank was on a calm day and I rode to Bisbee, Tombstone and around town. It looks like the mpg display on the FJR is reading about 5 mpg high. Also if the odometer is a skosh high I think the bike is probably getting about 45mpg which IMO is pretty good.

AZ

 

[FJRMGM]

I've done several long rides over simular terrain with the bags on and bags off and noticed no difference in gas mileage.

A steady throttle hand makes the most difference.

But, when you twist the throttle on the FJR who can resist feeling that power??