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Originally Posted by redyaris
I am doing much more EOC now-a-days and that is the most significant change. I range between 14% - 9% EOC.
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On my commute I do about the same amount of it, but I really need serious downhill to turn off the engine. I always suspected that the light weight and bad Cd of motorcycles makes them worse at it, and I'm thankful to redyaris for making some measurements:
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I have been doing more Engine Off Coasting [EOC] with the GS500 and yesterday did a comparison with the redyaris. The test strip starts at the 1Km sign and ends when I have to turn right at the intersection. I start at 80km/hr and with the yaris EOC I have to brake from 50km/hr to 40km/hr to make the turn. The GS500 comes to a stop aprox 50 meters before the turn. The Yaris goes aprox 400 meters further. This is not a flat section of road, it goes downhill to the intersection then uphill after the intersection.
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Anyway, yesterday we rode in the hills of Bakony and I could do nice long EOCs (I usually don't turn off the engine until I predict the next coast to be at least 500-600m long, or I want to come to a stop - I don't want to drain the battery too much with the lights, electronics and the starter, it's only 12Ah which must charge slower and I it's
very hard to smoothly bumpstart Teresa).