Test ride MPG

[the Ferret]

I don't think there is anything mechanical about it. I think my mileage comes from my riding style which is pretty conservative, and very smooth on off throttle (roll on, roll off), plus the fact that the area that I ride in has very few stop lights or stop signs so I don't sit idling or do a lot of shifting up and down thru the gears. I am usually on 2 lane country back roads in flat to gently rolling hills, running between 45 and 60 mph, in 5th and 6th gears, . Little to no traffic. I may be conservative, but I am a fairly fast rider as I don't let off for the curves much lol (you can ask the forum members who have ridden with me...I am not a doddering old man rider). Steady as she goes so to speak. My typical shift point is about 3,000 rpms and my bike has never seen 5,000 rpms. I don't ride like that to get good mileage, that's just how I ride, and where I ride, and good mileage is a by product of that.

I ride my ST 1300 the same and average 47-49 mpg on a 717 pound V 4.