24-04-14, 09:22 PM
The best time to do it is on holiday in France in the summer. Those endless quiet motorways and high temps mean I manage my best mpg out there, especially on the way home when I don't want to get to the end of the holiday!
Pity the poor fools who bought VFR1200s… I haunt a VFR forum and the arguments over whether the tank is too small are epic. There's even a thread, 13 pages long, about what incredible mileages they get … or not. I think their record is 200 miles, so it's really amusing to see a Fazer get 261 without even trying. Most of them get the flashing light at 120ish miles.
Mind you, it's a spectacular lemon that bike. Most of the posts are people arguing about how crap it is - warped discs, sudden brake activations and locups, fuelling glitches, engines blowing up, shaft drives exploding, adjusters on the rear shock seizing (some guy's had 5 new shocks!), cracked bodywork, limited to 147mph… the list just goes on and on.
And here we are in Fazer land and how many of us have had a problem with our bikes other than the goddam EXUP?
Pity the poor fools who bought VFR1200s… I haunt a VFR forum and the arguments over whether the tank is too small are epic. There's even a thread, 13 pages long, about what incredible mileages they get … or not. I think their record is 200 miles, so it's really amusing to see a Fazer get 261 without even trying. Most of them get the flashing light at 120ish miles.
Mind you, it's a spectacular lemon that bike. Most of the posts are people arguing about how crap it is - warped discs, sudden brake activations and locups, fuelling glitches, engines blowing up, shaft drives exploding, adjusters on the rear shock seizing (some guy's had 5 new shocks!), cracked bodywork, limited to 147mph… the list just goes on and on.
And here we are in Fazer land and how many of us have had a problem with our bikes other than the goddam EXUP?
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