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derbi senda cross city 125 - 8 litres will get me 112 miles, but cause the fuel tanks so s**t it usually cuts out when theres less then two litres in the tank.
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when I first got my 1985 R80Rt it would do 280Km before i needed reserve. after a basic service and new needles and needle jets it now does 320KM ( 200 miles) without needing reserve. My best ever mpg was 57 when accompanyinga diesel Enfield from france to Germany. ( running at 55-60mph) he was getting about 170 mpg
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Riding back from Ireland to Somerset last summer on my 650 v-strom on the M4 near Bristol the last bar on my fuel gauge started flashing after 230 miles and after another 20 miles i pulled in to fill up, i could only get 17 litres of fuel in the tank even though it holds 22 litres from dry, so im guessing that gives me damn close to a 300 mile range! (riding at a steady 80 mph)
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On my XR600 I did 227 miles on 10.6 litres (in the Western Sahara so warm with long straight roads and no traffic), which works out around 90mpg. This was based on full to full on a 40L tank so if I'd kept going I would have been able to do around 800 miles.

I did wonder whether this was some sort of cocked up measurement but the next two fuel stops gave me 72 mpg and 78 mpg and as these included driving around towns perhaps the first one wasn't so unbelievable. Round the UK the bike normally did around 50 -55mpg so why it liked the desert so much I've no idea.
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I must say I am pretty impressed by these figures. Just goes to show a bike can do some respectable miles: even if a bigger tank is needed. If I were to believe what they tell us in the brochures of magazines I'd be left thinking that 50mpg was well above average!!

Not so, I'm happy to see.

My dad recently bought a Transalp new to replace his 1150RT. Based on the bumpf you get in the showroom and online we had expected about 50-55, but on a ride out of town he managed about 70-80!! OK, he was not riding like a loon and it is still being run in, but nonetheless, it really makes down sizing an attractive option, not to mention making touring a lot easier!
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If not pushing it to hard I can pass 700 kms.
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The Bonneville turns in 40-50 mpg even with the chair. The downside is Triumph compensated with only 13 litres to reserve and another 3 to empty. 140 miles isn't enough for Wales on a Sunday never mind anywhere really out of the way.

Ideally I want 200 miles without stopping, hence the auxilliary tank.

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derbi senda cross city 125 - 8 litres will get me 112 miles, but cause the fuel tanks so s**t it usually cuts out when theres less then two litres in the tank.
Interesting, the Derbi Terra Adventure will get me between 125-135 miles before the reserve light comes on. In theory this means I've got 2.5 litres left in the 11 litre tank, but the other day I rode another 20 miles or so and still ended up putting 9 litres in the tank.

And the one time I pushed my luck and rode till it spluttered to a halt I got just over 180 miles.
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My Haobon 125 would always give me around 40km/litre when I was in China.

I got 450kms out of one 11 litre tankful and it still wasn't empty.

Given fuel in China was only around 60c per litre (12 months ago), this represented about the cheapest motoring you could imagine.

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2001 f650 Dakar - In general use 180/190 miles to reserve light coming on. But I do manage +220 miles a few times whilst touring. With the reserve light on I then allow myself about 50 miles to find some petrol. In the more remote parts of the world (i.e. Southern Scotland!), I have reached 275 miles looking for petrol stations. With the petrol left in the tank I reckon I would have got close to 300 miles before running out.

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Interesting, the Derbi Terra Adventure will get me between 125-135 miles before the reserve light comes on. In theory this means I've got 2.5 litres left in the 11 litre tank, but the other day I rode another 20 miles or so and still ended up putting 9 litres in the tank.

And the one time I pushed my luck and rode till it spluttered to a halt I got just over 180 miles.
Thats quite interesting, not bad for an adventurer. I put this to the test last week. I dont have a reserve light, just a switch. I did exactly 110miles and it cut out (on a hill, which probably was a, if not the, factor to my halt). Put the reserve on and it took me 11miles home, at warp speed. Calculating......total range, on one full tank including reserve, 130miles

Not bad for under a tenner.
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