Gas Mileage?

[the Ferret]

Holy..looking at my log I have ridden 28 out of 31 days this month (not sure if I will get out yet today..watching my grandson and its raining) I have ridden 2,486 miles on 3 bikes, so average is 88.7 miles per day.

[Pterodactyl_imp]

Y'all are obsessed with all this MPG talk. Economic transportation never crossed my mind, when I purchased this bike, and still hasn't. I put gas in. I go. I smile a lot. The Smiles Per Gallon is great!

Mate, this forum is a veritable asylum of obsessions. My friend, we are lunatics from the website of the two-wheel highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Look at it - o*l, tyres, mileage, mystic vibrations, farkling. The list goes on and on. Nurse Ratched would have her hands full here. Believe me, I'm the only sane one.

Cheers
Oh no! I nearly forgot - crush washers for the oil drain plug. He, he he he he ...............

[ClassicVW_imp]

Obsessions? Anal people discussing inconsequential issues?

Visit a BMW forum!

[sanoke_imp]

Okay, getting back to the inconsequential issue, due to the cooler weather I took my Street Shield off and put on my Plexifaring. My gas mileage dropped from 62 MPG to 57 MPG. Guess the big shield does have more drag.

[Todd_K_imp]

Last few rides have been frigid - lower 40s - and shorter. According to the mileage computer I'm right around 39-40mpg, and that is with a mellow throttle hand. Not getting up to full operating temp is killing my mileage. Cold weather is for the birds.

[Short Timer_imp]

Last few rides have been frigid - lower 40s - and shorter. According to the mileage computer I'm right around 39-40mpg, and that is with a mellow throttle hand. Not getting up to full operating temp is killing my mileage. Cold weather is for the birds.

Wow, Todd, that is low. I rode out I-88 today to Dixon then up to Rockford where I filled up. The wind was wicked - strong headwind with gusts of over 30mph (so said the weather guy) and it felt like it. (Temps in the mid thirties - God Bless heated gear) The mpg at Rockford was still 49.7, which was off my overall average of 53. The ride back had that awesome tailwind and I got 60.8 - a new high for me.

I just checked my fuel app log and my all time lowest was 45.5 which was a trip to St. Louis - all highway and rarely under 75-80 mph.

The bike turned over 3,600 miles on the clock today. And I am diggin' it more all the time.

[Todd_K_imp]

Hey Tim - heated gear... What a novel concept. I'd be interested in getting your recommendations - battery operated, or did you run an outlet off the bike?

Hope you're doing well!

[Ridem32_imp]

Hey Todd I have heated gloves, pants & jacket. Wired to battery! They make adaptors that plug into your battery tender to your heated cloths controllers. . Ride warm

[Haystack_imp]

I average 48 mpg but most of my riding is at highway speeds. High has been 58 mpg, low was 42.

[Biggin_imp]

I am 220 lbs and double wife 165 lbs,running 19 front sprocket and plex2 windshield. I check every tank and in the 50s mpg. Exception was on interstate alone at 80 mph for whole tank and got 44 mpg
By the way this is a 2013