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Scooters - 125 to 300 => Downtown 300 => Topic started by: Cortez on January 22, 2012, 09:35:09 PM
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50MPG!
:P
I guess wind and rain, low temps and a few WOT runs didn't help much!
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Glad you're happy! I know you waited a long time for this. :) Thanks for the slideshow too. Now get that dust off the floorboards and tires. :D Oh yeah, and ride safely!
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I'll be happy when I get over 60MPG ;D
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Yes, the first tank really is no reference.
Mine was around 54 MPG if I remember correctly.
With such a small tank it's important to have a consistant fill-up procedure.
My usage is all over the place, because I had a lot of 2up, short rides.
Enjoy!
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Second tank will also be around 50-55mpg, but I've again probably got about an hour of idling (a lot of short
rides, I let the bike warm up for maybe 2 minutes tops, but I ride often) since it's very cold outside, from -10C to 0,
or 10F! I usually don't get over 1 bar on the temperature gauge, and the choke keeps running for big part of my
every ride.
Freakin' cold.
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I pick my DT up on Thursday, can't wait. I got the orange
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Second tank will also be around 50-55mpg, but I've again probably got about an hour of idling (a lot of short
rides, I let the bike warm up for maybe 2 minutes tops, but I ride often) since it's very cold outside, from -10C to 0,
or 10F! I usually don't get over 1 bar on the temperature gauge, and the choke keeps running for big part of my
every ride.
Freakin' cold.
You Croatia guys and your snowy weather are all over the TV News here in the states Last year it was us with the snow. This year our winter is very mild.
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You Croatia guys and your snowy weather are all over the TV News here in the states Last year it was us with the snow. This year our winter is very mild.
Yeah, we got about 20" here in the east, which is about normal (or just a bit above), but
the adriatic coastline almost never gets snow, and they're covered with the stuff.
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You Croatia guys and your snowy weather are all over the TV News here in the states Last year it was us with the snow. This year our winter is very mild.
Just came to work (scooting), it is -9 C here. Very unusual for Adriatic coast.
Also, my town has been spared, we have had low temperatures for 10 days in a row but no snow at all. Some snow is expected tomorrow.
Serbia is much more affected, it is -30 C tehere...
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Just came to work (scooting), it is -9 C here. Very unusual for Adriatic coast.
Also, my town has been spared, we have had low temperatures for 10 days in a row but no snow at all. Some snow is expected tomorrow.
Serbia is much more affected, it is -30 C tehere...
-30C is -22F I can't even imagine it. Here I am saying that I won't scoot in less than 40F.
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-30C is -22F I can't even imagine it. Here I am saying that I won't scoot in less than 40F.
Well, it is never below 12F (-11 C) where I live, and I drive it every day on a short distance to work and back (<30 km).
However, the problem is not cold, it is the wind. I live in a particular part of the country known for violent wind gusts.
Quite regularly the wind here is blowing 100-160 km/h, in extremes even more. In USA, this is class one/two hurricane.
However, it is quite common here, usually the traffic is restricted on highways for motorcycles and trucks, over the bridges and for ferries. It is very unpleasant because it is rapidly changing direction. For example, yesterday when I was coming home from work, it was blowing head on, so I was driving barely 65 km/h using 2/3rds of the throttle. Then it started blowing from my left side, so it was pushing me to the curb. Suddenly, it started blowing from the right side, and in a few seconds changed to the left side again...
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Well, it is never below 12F (-11 C) where I live, and I drive it every day on a short distance to work and back (<30 km).
However, the problem is not cold, it is the wind. I live in a particular part of the country known for violent wind gusts.
Quite regularly the wind here is blowing 100-160 km/h, in extremes even more. In USA, this is class one/two hurricane.
However, it is quite common here, usually the traffic is restricted on highways for motorcycles and trucks, over the bridges and for ferries. It is very unpleasant because it is rapidly changing direction. For example, yesterday when I was coming home from work, it was blowing head on, so I was driving barely 65 km/h using 2/3rds of the throttle. Then it started blowing from my left side, so it was pushing me to the curb. Suddenly, it started blowing from the right side, and in a few seconds changed to the left side again...
This crap has been postponing my trip to Rijeka for 10 days now.. and we got half a meter of snow here.
Hope the wind goes away come monday.. I'll probably be going home on friday, might hit a coffee or sumthin',
talk about fuel consumption etc.
;)
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Looking at the Fuelly website is interesting that some of us EU customers get bad FC when compared to the American guys. I have taken readings during the summer and winter and it doesn't change much with the exception of long trips.
Not sure what can be so different between their scooters and ours?
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flat roads...........
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flat roads...........
I live in London UK and it is pretty flat, my weight is 75 kg = 11.81 stones, pretty average but still get crap FC.
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ummm well there goes that idea......I guess it's not flat roads.....
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Could also be altitude. Lower air density will reduce power. Also they may not be giving a true liter along with poorer quality fuel. lower octanes or higher quantity of ethanol could be culprits. I m pretty much at sea level and only use high test fuel.............
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Could also be altitude. Lower air density will reduce power. Also they may not be giving a true liter along with poorer quality fuel. lower octanes or higher quantity of ethanol could be culprits. I m pretty much at sea level and only use high test fuel.............
I am quit a bit higher in wester Canada and use regular fuel with about 10% ethanol. Not that much difference between Tanware and mine. Also I rode in a lot colder weather last fall.