Video: Honda scores with 98 mpg (US) CBR125R motorcycle
If a bike made sense in my transportation mix, I'd skip the gas guzzling Ninja 250 for one of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XW6MNMbzbI Excerpts from a review in today's Ottawa Citizen: Quote:
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I so wish we could get bikes like those in the Us.
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Eliminator® 125 http://kawasaki.com/ImagesMain/Produ...ccc224de22.jpg |
I have wanted a motorcycle for years, for fun and extreme fuel savings. I will write Honda and ask them to bring the CBR125 to the US, and I encourage anyone else who thinks they should to do so as well. If enough people want it, they will sell it.
Motorcycle Division American Honda Motor Co., Inc. P.O. Box 2200 Torrance, CA 90509-2200 Mail stop: 100-4C-7B Telephone: (866) 784-1870 |
Gas guzzler Ninja 250?
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I have a 250R and an Eliminator 125. It took real work to get the Eliminator to a point where I could comfortably drive it at 55mph. http://www.deyemeracing.com/dusk/fil...exhaust-01.jpg 69mpg so far, and just put a new front fender on to try to tip the scale at 70! http://www.deyemeracing.com/silver/f...20091201-7.jpg 78mpg @ 55mph. Smaller aluminum rear sprocket, windscreen, fork-mounted air deflectors, numerous lightweight fasteners, 35w HID headlight + LED lights... most of that wasn't to get more MPG, but just to give it the strength to cruise comfortably at highway speed! |
Yeah, but where's the loud pipes, or 300kph top end?!? LOL
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I've read a lot about the XV250 Virago's pushing 90mpg+ in fairly stock form and 100+ with a 17/38 chain/sprocket.
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dont believe that crap about the virago/vstar 250 getting 90+ mpg. its a lie. i had one, and if i drove it real easy it would get between 75-80 mpg. if i drove it hard it would get about 60-65 mpg. to get 90+ mpg on a virago/vstar 250 you would have to drive 30 mph, and weigh about 100 pounds. those just aren't real life figures. i am not saying it cant be done, just that you would have to work REALLY, REALLY hard to do it. and if you were going to do that, you might as well get a 50cc scooter. oh well, just my 2 cents.
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I'd pick a 250 over a 125 *anytime*.
125cc are hard pressed to get up to speed, and that's going to cost you in mileage. Back in the late '90s Suzuki had the TU250 Volty in its line-up. The bike did 3L/100km or 80 mpg (US) in a test by a local bike mag, still using a carburetor. I see they're still available in the US, with FI rather than a carb. I wonder what mileage they get now. We get less and less 250 bikes in the EU, they got washed away by a tsunami of 125's which ppl can ride using a car licence in many EU countries. |
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