poor mpg with new bike ???

[Mguenther]

Looking back over the last 5000 miles I come up with 44.92 mpg
The best I ever got was 48.1 mpg and low of 41.1 mpg.
This is commuting 100 miles round trip. The highest was non-
alcohol gas. Always found it was worth a couple MPG extra
when I could find fuel without the alcohol. I cruised at about 70 mph
with a run to 100 plus at least once a trip on a clear section of road.

 

[swift82]

Bone stock you should end up getting anywhere between 45-50 MPG. I hit 55 mpg once 2up riding to the Keys. Even heavily modded I still got 45 MPG cruising at 70-80MPG when I did my Laconia trip. 150-160 miles per tank. That's with the huge screen and luggage.

I did a test ride on the FZ09. Steady @ 70 MPG I got 47 MPG. 140 miles to the reserve and push it to 150 miles to the gas station.

I don't know if it has to do with me ridding upper 30's-40's out side I was thinking the bike would do better if it was running closer to 200 derg. than 163 going down the free way

 

[Marthy]

I don't know if it has to do with me ridding upper 30's-40's out side I was thinking the bike would do better if it was running closer to 200 derg. than 163 going down the free way

180 to 200 is fine. 160ish is a bit cold and might kill the mpg a bit

 

[swift82]

Thanks marthy that's what I was thinking ..... Another thing is that after 200-250 miles the idel came up from 1200 to 1600 so I turned it back down..

Here is a pic of the new girl

 

[nismos14]

Nice! Not sure how I feel about the white front fender, but great looking bike.

 

[yellowfz]

Do like the truckers do, put a piece of cardboard or something to block the radiator a little to make it heat up to normal temps if you are that concerned.
Pretty much a given cold weather makes for less mileage.

 

[latony007]

Nice! Not sure how I feel about the white front fender, but great looking bike.

I love that blue but they should have made the fender blue too

 

[swift82]

So besides the poor mpg, ive found a new thing when im down shift to come to a stop,by maching the rpm from 3k-1.5k it popes back throw the intake !!! Any one heard of this before? I talked to my dealer and there going to call yamaha

 

[MiltonDorkenhoff]

So besides the poor mpg, i've found a new thing. when i'm downshifting to come to a stop, by matching the rpms from 3k-1.5k it pops back through the intake !!! Anyone heard of this before? I talked to my dealer and they're going to call yamaha

Do you have the original exhaust? If you changed it, it's probably not a surprise. Search for something like "backfire fz6r" using google (like this).

 

[leem00]

So besides the poor mpg, ive found a new thing when im down shift to come to a stop,by maching the rpm from 3k-1.5k it popes back throw the intake !!! Any one heard of this before? I talked to my dealer and there going to call yamaha

Are you sure its not the air injection pump.... I pumps air into the exhaust....an emissions thing.

 

[swift82]

I still have stock exhaust. The bike just rolled over 400 mile when ir does it it kinda falls on irs face

 

[nismos14]

seems like a defect!

 

[tanoz]

not trying to hijack your thread but i just converted all my units over.

Im only getting 28mpg with my bike thats new. Its only got around 1000 miles on it.

 

[RyanChristenson]

So my bike has almost 1000 miles on it and the my first tank this year and only got 100 miles on the tank. That is all about I got last fall too. Any thoughts?


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[Scott_Thomas]

So my bike has almost 1000 miles on it and the my first tank this year and only got 100 miles on the tank. That is all about I got last fall too. Any thoughts?


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Hole in the tank. Just kidding. That is definitely not normal for the 6R.

 

[Scott_Thomas]

So my bike has almost 1000 miles on it and the my first tank this year and only got 100 miles on the tank. That is all about I got last fall too. Any thoughts?


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Do you have any mods?

 

[RyanChristenson]

No performance mods at all


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[RyanChristenson]

Had my 600 mile service done last fall. Half my commute is highway half is city. I normally a run it around 7k.


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[Scott_Thomas]

Had my 600 mile service done last fall. Half my commute is highway half is city. I normally a run it around 7k.


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Are you sure your running the tank to nearly empty? Can't always go by the bars on the fuel gauge. They are just a rough estimate as far as I'm concerned. I literally went to 1 bar and only put a little over 2 gallons to completely full. Doesn't seem to make sense. You'd think at 3 bars you'd be 1/2 tank or close. So my question is, What are you basing the 100 miles per tank on? Is it actually run till empty, is the reserve kicked in?

 

[nismos14]

How many gallons did you fill at the 100 miles?