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Around 40-45 mpg normal riding
Around 50 - 60 mpg if you treat the throttle carefully on a long journey and use high gears
Around 35 mpg if you bomb it
With regard to the gearbox - change the oil (and oil filter) regularly (every 1,400 miles or so) and use good quality stuff.
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Hey Neil,
What colour is MINT RED and MINT BLACK?
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Jetting plays an important part in the consumption too. I know a mechanic who gets 80 mpg from his XT.
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Whooooh LEAN !!!
My 600E, fully loaded up, got about 10 miles per litre while riding highways at 65mph. (Giving me 230 miles out of a 23L Acerbis tank) = 45mpg
Although.. In Brazil when using their fuel (30% ethenol), I was getting about 380 miles (68mpg)from the tank with no huge noticable change in power until the ethenol gummed up my carb and discoloured all my fuel lines
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Hey Neil,
What colour is MINT RED and MINT BLACK?

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green stripes? :tooth: 
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I was also getting 10miles per litre but I usually ride fast around 100km/h and over... STILL I drove carefully, I'm not a maniac lol
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On mine, my mates and the wifes TTR/TTRE's, basically the same engine, I have always found 20-25 kpl to be normal even two up with luggage, in the desert, in the Andes. The best ever was fully loaded with ally boxes etc in Morocco over 26 kpl at approx 50mph/80kmph using leaded "super".
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