General topics » Tank capacity

I ran the bike down to 1 mile range today, just because I was in town with plenty of petrol available.

I managed to squeeze in 17.96 litres. So that’ll be close to MT then.

That pretty much fits with my experience i.e the gauge is pretty accurate. As best I can recall the exact figures from last September at Netettal on the Dutch/German border I arrived to refuel with 7 miles of range showing and reckoned by brimming the tank that I actually had fuel for 11 miles. So, as your post, demonstrates you can safely run the tank to an indication of zero miles so long as you have a petrol station on the horizon or some sort of reserve on board.

P.S. Did you squeeze in 17.96 on the side stand or centre stand? I was astride the bike sitting it vertically when brimming the tank

Chris

Hi just back from a Scottish trip at the weekend and managed to squeeze 246 miles from the tank with 2 miles showing

Was that on a 1200 or 1250?

The 1250 is very frugal so long as you keep it on the first cam. Above circa 4k steady revs you lose a few mpg - something like 51mpg rather than 56 mpg.

Chris

Zitat von PlacidoD im Beitrag #2

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That pretty much fits with my experience i.e the gauge is pretty accurate. As best I can recall the exact figures from last September at Netettal on the Dutch/German border I arrived to refuel with 7 miles of range showing and reckoned by brimming the tank that I actually had fuel for 11 miles. So, as your post, demonstrates you can safely run the tank to an indication of zero miles so long as you have a petrol station on the horizon or some sort of reserve on board.

P.S. Did you squeeze in 17.96 on the side stand or centre stand? I was astride the bike sitting it vertically when brimming the tank

Chris

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I've gotten 220-225 and still had 10-12 miles left on the range left.

Sometimes I get 45, sometimes I get 50, on occasion I've gotten up to 58 mpg several times.

45x4.7=211
48x4.7=225
50x4.7=235
54x4.7=253
I've seen 208 on the odo and had .5 gallons remaining on fill up. That suggests another 20 miles to empty. The computer was telling me 12 left.

I look for gas around 180-190 miles on the tank. 200 per tank is a normal fill up for me.

Most fuel range estimators will use your average fuel consumption over the previous few hundred Km, so if you normally use the bike for commuting and then go on a longish highway-type trip they will initially underestimate the range remaining because your fuel consumption will usually be lower on the highway, assuming reasonable speeds of course ;-)
After a while, the estimated range will get closer to the actual range and you should see it increase. If anyone has one of those plumber's fibre optic cameras it would be cool to poke it into the fuel tank to see how much fuel is left in there when the estimated range is close to zero.

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..... If anyone has one of those plumber's fibre optic cameras it would be cool to poke it into the fuel tank to see how much fuel is left in there when the estimated range is close to zero.

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I really don't like to run the fuel tank down to near empty unless I need to do so to keep from walking. Running out of fuel is very tough on the fuel pump, which is cooled and lubricated by gasoline. And we all know those things are expensive to replace. So, given a choice, I like to fill up when I have at least a liter or two in the tank. In my case, that amounts to around 220 miles of range.

All of the above agrees with my experiences on my ‘16. Even driving into a vicious quartering headwind (for hours) at 80mph only brought my fuel economy down to 42mpg.

I know someone will tell me to check my manual, but let me ask anyway, the mpg reading on the Info screen , is that the current ride, instantaneous (I doubt that as it seems stable) or covering all the historical mileage?

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I know someone will tell me to check my manual, but let me ask anyway, the mpg reading on the Info screen , is that the current ride, instantaneous (I doubt that as it seems stable) or covering all the historical mileage?

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Zitat von richreina im Beitrag #7

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..... If anyone has one of those plumber's fibre optic cameras it would be cool to poke it into the fuel tank to see how much fuel is left in there when the estimated range is close to zero.

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Alternatively you can use the far simpler procedure of brimming the tank when reporting near empty which is what several of us have done and report here!

The point that is being made is that the countdown is pretty accurate in the later stages and pretty quick to catch up with a change in riding style. We are all familiar with early readouts going up marginally rather than down as the onboard computer adjusts to your riding style on the day.

Chris

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