So I hear lots of people saying the range isn't that great and I'm wondering what they expect to be getting MPG wise. Is this the latest internet thing to blown out of proportion? Bikes with less than 200 miles on them from new and owners saying MPG is poor??? From my experience with this bike MPG is improving all the time as the engine loosens up. I'm not riding it to get great MPG, just to have fun. First service on Thursday and I've been keeping the miles down deliberately as got a 3500 mile trip in 2 weeks plus been busy working and weather been crap at times. After filling up the gauge shows a range of about 225 miles but this soon drops as the miles are covered with the fuel light coming on and zero range displayed 120 to 140 miles later. When re filling it takes about 18 litres so still quite a bit of fuel left in the tank when it's showing "empty". Riding for 3 hrs between fuel stops is plenty for me don't tend to use motorways and dual carriageways when on the bike as fun on twisties rules covering distance quickly but in a boring fashion.
Just working the theoretical range from your figures even working from the higher 140 miles it still works out to around 170 miles for 22 litres which is poor really. Just my thoughts.
But each fill up the mileage is improving as the engine frees up. My last bike S1000XR was getting about 110 miles from a tank when new and this improved over the first 500 to 1000 miles where 170 miles was normal and when taking it very easy 200 was possible. I'm sure once the service is done on Thursday and good clean quality oil replaces the cheap running in shite things will improve.
33 Litres = 370 miles on average steady riding my 2016 1st gen enduro. With full race exhaust & racing ECU jobbie on dash.
@rotaxracer can tell you exactly how many miles you can get to a tank on an XR (as he found out in Spain!
He was playing at it I got 20.25 litres into my XR after doing 35 miles past zero. Bike never coughed or spluttered but my arse was twitching like a rabbits nose when I was 15 miles to the nearest petrol station and had done 20 miles since it showed zero. The Mrs did wonder why I was going so steady and I didn't want to tell her how far she would have to walk to get petrol should we run out
That was so funny, after we actually managed to get to that damn filling station. I think there were 5 of us in total, all wondering if we would make it! with PG the only one on the BMW thingy.
I got back on Sunday after a 3500 mile tour with the wife and as expected tank range improved after the 600 mile service and as more Mrs were added. What I have noticed after many thanks of fuel is that that when the range reads zero there are still about 4 litres of fuel left in the tank. I was getting about 160 to 170 before it hit zero and once went 20 odd miles past zero and it still only took 20 litres to brim the tank. I don't think the MPG is that bad for 2 up riding fully loaded on a mixture of roads. In summary it's not the overall range that is shite but the fuel gauge.
On a two-hour test ride on back roads with a blast along a dual carriageway.......the 'puter said 38mpg. Then I rode it legally and it said 45mpg.....the bike had done 2000 miles. I think it drinks fuel if it uses revs but is OK at midrange revs....not unlike most bikes I guess.
I got the Ducati Multistrada Mormon edition so you can add as many as you can handle. My head says 3 but in reality it's about 0.5
