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Old 07-09-2011, 06:50 PM   #291 (permalink)
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My best mileage was 167mpg, or 1.406L/100km.

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Old 07-09-2011, 09:55 PM   #292 (permalink)
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Wow, Daniel - impressive numbers! I saw a lot of smaller displacement bikes when I was in the Azores (Faial) early last month. A friend who has a 250CC scooter here in Canada commented how attitudes to engine size are much different compared to North America.

The only local police we saw was riding what we thought was a 125cc (2 stroke) dirt bike.
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Old 07-10-2011, 12:34 AM   #293 (permalink)
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it is funny, but the other night I was running some errands and had like 5 people comment on my bike (1974 cb125), they all seemed a little envious, especially when I told them it was garbage picked though there has been a steady stream of $5-$40 purchases to get it semi-road worthy.

My last tank was maybe 90mpg, it can do better I'm sure. I'm getting the hang of kick starting it reliably when the cross light goes yellow.
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Old 07-10-2011, 04:39 AM   #294 (permalink)
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Thanks MetroMPG, im trying to increase my mileage, to my mental goal -> below 1.4l/100km
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Old 07-10-2011, 07:30 AM   #295 (permalink)
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Purupurupurupurupuru....

You guys make me jealous with those small displacement bikes...
But at least I'm over 80mpg with almost continuous 2-up riding on my last tank. With these (probably worse RR) tires. Hot weather helps of course.
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Hey alvaro, how you going?

Just to you guys know, here in Portugal, each liter of gas, costs 1.50€, it means 2.1$ for each liter of gas. The low displacement bikes is the best way to travel city and country roads, and, for a 125cc 4 stroke, it has lots of power across the rpm range

I will increase the tyre pressure a bit, and my poor mathematic says that this bike, in idle with the engine cold, spens 7.5ml of gas each minute, and my calculations says that i could travel 400 meters with 7.5ml of fuel

Ok, i stop with my math
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I don't do much math, except I looked up that gas is ~1.4€ per liter here.
Heck, I don't even know the idle fuel consumption of my bike. Among the many other things I don't know
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Lol

Just curious, where do you live?

Tomorrow i will know the consumption of 5L of gas. Maybe 1.49 or 1.50L/100km, because 20 or 30km was with 2 passengers, wide open throttle.
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Just look below my avatar: I live in Hungary. And we don't have Euro now so I have to do the math every time - exchange rates constantly change...
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You guys make me jealous with those small displacement bikes...
Jealous !?! Sheesh, you`re squeezing out 20 - 25% more from each gallon than I am, and with over 50% more displacement than me! On the bright side, I have just about the only bike I know of that can fit a large pizza under the seat

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