56 Mpg

[Billy Balthorpe]

Just rode from Stoke to Cognac on my Gen 1 Fazer 1000 with Full monty Ivans kit, tank bag, top box and tail pack. Mostly on Autoroutes at an indicated 80 to 90 mph all the way, but mostly 85 (except for the UK with the 50mph limit for most of the M6) and got about 46 mpg, at 150 miles i still had a quarter of the tank left.


I'm pleased with that, if i dropped the speed down to about 70, i would probably get well over 50mpg, but i want to actually get here ASAP.

[Ricky]

Since I had the full Monty done I can not get close to 56 mpg lol.

[Hugh Mungus]

Don't know what the mpg is on my thou but the first bike I fell off was a C70!
In my defence I was only 12 years old.

[steve 10562cc]

Any where between  80 and 100miles to the tank full on my gen2 1000. I owned a tuned Suzuki GT750 Kettle in the mid 1980s with a little help from a heavy throttle hand could get it down to about 18mpg best it would do was 28mpg thirsty beast. It also drank 2 stoke oil like it was going out of fashion.

[Triggergee]

Best I've managed so far was 250 miles with the light on for the last few miles, French motorways this spring doing a steady 70-80 trying to get to Spain although it was in the pissing rain so most of the time I was hiding under the screen trying to keep at least some of me remotely dry and not freeze to death. This is with a one down front sprocket too!

[Robbie8666]

just bit of rough working out & I reckon I get bout 50mpg out of my Triumph Thunderbird!
18 litres from Falmouth to Salisbury...