Sat June 9- Ride 507/elephant lake/algonquin

[mimico_polak]

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Your user manual usually tells you how many litres are left when the light comes on. Doing some math you can figure out exactly how far you could go. Me... I just put a small gas can in my backpack and go for a ride until it runs dry, then I REALLY know how far I have when the light comes on

-Jamie M.

I'll have to give that a go then sometime and see what the distance actually is then! Thanks Jamie I appreciate the quick response.

 

[toysareforboys]

I'll have to give that a go then sometime and see what the distance actually is then! Thanks Jamie I appreciate the quick response.

No problem. I usually do two tests, one just driving around town trying to hit every red light and stop sign I can, and another test straight highway at 100kph no traffic, the two numbers can vary quite a bit, so it's good to know both.

-Jamie M.

 

[Eszter]

Yes that's correct. My first was a CBR125 which gave me around 300km per tank. This bike I fill with the nozzle out filled to the very top of the tank. I'll typically let the fuel light flash as I don't know how many kms I have until it runs dry. I wouldn't expect it to have another 120km in the tank at that stage...would it??

Well how much can you put in the tank when your light is flashing? If it's 9 liters, then you still had 4 more to go. About 1-3rd of the tank...
I also read somewhere that the cbr250's fuel gauge can be unpredictable at times.

 

[motorsiklet]

well , CBR250 only burns 3 liters every 100 km , it means u need only 15 liters gas to do 500km on cbr250 according to their websites. kawi is 2 cylinders (cbr is one cylinder) and burns 4 liters every 100 km ... so u do the math . btw yeah we dont fill the tanks up , while bike is leaning on stand .so usually i would say we have 15 or 16 liters in the 18 liters tank .

mimico i would test the ur cbr250 to see if there is something wrong , there is no way u can do 250 km on a tank on ur bike , unless u are always riding it on top speed ...

 

[mimico_polak]

well , CBR250 only burns 3 liters every 100 km , it means u need only 15 liters gas to do 500km on cbr250 according to their websites. kawi is 2 cylinders (cbr is one cylinder) and burns 4 liters every 100 km ... so u do the math . btw yeah we dont fill the tanks up , while bike is leaning on stand .so usually i would say we have 15 or 16 liters in the 18 liters tank .

mimico i would test the ur cbr250 to see if there is something wrong , there is no way u can do 250 km on a tank on ur bike , unless u are always riding it on top speed ...

Nah definitely not doing top speed all the time! Hell barely ever! LoL I calculate the average economy and I'm around 4.1l/100km...I think 3l/100 is a little bit optimistic but typically EPA figures are not to be trusted.

I put in around 9-10 litres per fill up so I think I'm just being overly conservative on when I need to fill up. Ie: starts flashing and I fill up within 30-40k of that flashing start. I'll get a small gas can and just run it until it goes dry and then see how far I have. Might do a ride tonight just to see what I can get out of it and track a bit better.

 

[mimico_polak]

Checked last night in the manual...1.4L left in the tank when it starts flashing. So basically that's not a lot of miles left on it but I'll try and get some real numbers and report back.

Update:

Filled up this morning. Fuel gauge started flashing last night so I filled up this morning. The manual states 1.4L SHOULD be left in the tank, however I filled up with 9.947L so it's off by 3.05L (don't know how accurate the pump counter is).

The 9.947L gave me a distance of 271.7km for 3.6L/100km (mixed highway/city commute) which is better than original 4.0-4.2L/km the first couple thousand kms.

With that the 3.05L would give me an additional 85km (approx) for a total of around 360km on a full tank.

Not sure how you're squeezing 430-500km/tank but that's damn good. I do the majority of my riding on my commute to/from work so that may improve on highway, but I haven't done a 100% highway run yet to confirm this.

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