04-25-2021, 09:06 AM
I have four tanks through my 2014 Standard now and my mileage has increased with every fill. I use an app on my iPhone called "Road Trip" and track every fill up. When I first got the bike I was a little to throttle happy (which I shouldn't have been, at 230 miles it was still breaking in) and got 41.1 on my first complete fill. Since then I have been more focused on how smoothly I am shifting and accelerating and my mileages since have been 42.13, and 50.91. My driving is probably about 80% city traffic and maybe 20% freeway, all on flat to slightly hilly terrain.
So far the biggest impact on my fuel economy I have noticed is that after my first two fill ups, I have tried try to keep my RPM's between about 2000-2500. Anything less than 2000 feels like it is lugging a bit even though it has the grunt to pull itself out no problem. I plan on running about 10 tanks of ethanol free 91 Octane ((R+M)/2) and then running another 10 tanks of just plain old 85 octane (common low grade fuel here) to see if there is any appreciable difference within that 2000-2500 RPM riding style.
I suspect there won't be as I have tracked every tank of fuel in my vehicles for almost ten years now and I have never observed a difference between fuel types. Any differences I have seen basically comes down to things you either can't control, such as differences in wind, hills, routing, number of stoplights, etc., or one thing, RPM's. The lower the RPM's and the higher the gear, the farther you travel on a given amount of fuel. The bottom line is that it took using the data from an app to train myself out of stomping on the accelerator.
So far the biggest impact on my fuel economy I have noticed is that after my first two fill ups, I have tried try to keep my RPM's between about 2000-2500. Anything less than 2000 feels like it is lugging a bit even though it has the grunt to pull itself out no problem. I plan on running about 10 tanks of ethanol free 91 Octane ((R+M)/2) and then running another 10 tanks of just plain old 85 octane (common low grade fuel here) to see if there is any appreciable difference within that 2000-2500 RPM riding style.
I suspect there won't be as I have tracked every tank of fuel in my vehicles for almost ten years now and I have never observed a difference between fuel types. Any differences I have seen basically comes down to things you either can't control, such as differences in wind, hills, routing, number of stoplights, etc., or one thing, RPM's. The lower the RPM's and the higher the gear, the farther you travel on a given amount of fuel. The bottom line is that it took using the data from an app to train myself out of stomping on the accelerator.