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Originally Posted by HiFlite
However, perhaps that is changing. Honda seems to be doing pretty well with a series based on 2 cylinders of a Fit engine which increases average mpgs by about 50%. It's a significant modality shift though, and it remains questionable whether these truly modern motorcycles will be accepted well enough to be widely adopted.
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Yes, but at least in North America where motorcycles are more often ridden out of the urban setting for some long highway runs, even for many commuters, too many riders could care less about mpg when it comes to motorcycling.
I achieved 96.9 mpg by my own recording (101.82 per the official results) in the 2014 Mid-Ohio fuel challenge on an auto-engine inspired 2014 Honda CTX700; beating the next-best stock bike that was 1/4 the engine displacement of my bike, and I've found few people that find that feat impressive or care, and Honda has had very limited success with their products with this amazing power train here in the States, so this should sort of tell us why there aren't more mc fuel misers.