Suzuki's new 250cc Fuel Injected bike.

[al74dart]

Suzuki has a new bike for 2009 called the TU250X with an 82 MPG rating for "City driving". The bike has electric start and the engine is a fuel-injected, 249cc, 4-stroke, single-cylinder, air-cooled, SOHC. The list price is $3,799 with a shipping cost to Arizona of $275. In my opinion that is a little much for the bike but I will have to wait and see what they really sell the bike for. It was originally listing for $3,499 but for some reason they saw a need to add $300 to the list price. I called two local dealers yesterday and they are still waiting for the first ones to arrive. It is just a plain commuter bike listed as one of their Standard models. Here is a link to the bike.
Suzuki Cycles - Product Lines - Cycles - Products - TU250X - 2009 - TU250X

Al

[Ryland]

I like it! nice styling, perfect size engine, a little on the heavy side but still not to bad, and with a price that would make it competitive with alot of other entry level bikes, makes me think that there will be alot of used ones out there in a few years, of course if it's as good as I hope it is people will hold on to them, but there are always those people who want to get something larger.

[MetroMPG]

And being fuel injected, ideal for instrumentation. MPGuino.

[theunchosen]

Well for starters you could dump some of the exhaust pipe and maybe drop a silencer to cover some sound as far as weight reduction.

Then fiberglass aero fairings. Maybe force it to lean out its standard burn if its ECU.

It would accelerate very slowly, but Highway you might see. . .100?

[beatr911]

This is interesting. The carbed version of this engine on the old GZ250 gets the same mileage. I'm wondering what the advantage is to Suzuki to go FI. Hopefully this is a roll-out of FI technology applied to all new models.

What I like about this FI system is that it has an O2 sensor feedback. So many of the early FI systems didn't have this, though they ran well they didn't have the self-tuning capability that a feeback loop provides. This bodes well for development of more fuel efficient cycles - and mpg monitoring cabability.

A while back, Honda proclaimed that all new models would be FI by something like 2010, even 50cc scooters in third world markets. They were to develop a very simple system that would be reliable and easy to repair. Maybe this is in fact what we are finally beginning to see in the entire motorcycle market?