Hello, 2 year old evo with about 5000 miles and dealer fitted termi and serviced on time, etc. My typical commute is 20 mile round trip with not much traffic. A few 30/40 zones but mostly duel carriage way doing 50 - well, I might hit 90 if my hand slips My tank is showing warning light at about 80-90 miles so I've worked out I'm getting 10 miles per litre (about 8-11 litre fill up depending on when I fill up) giving 30mpg. This seems really low to me? I was expecing 40 at least. Any else with numbers?
Hi, fuel consumption is only quoted as 30mpg on the bike. I normally get bang on 100miles to a tank but recently noticed in the cold that it's dropped to more like 90miles before the light comes on. I have to do a fair but of filtering etc at either end of my commute and I should point out that I never get more than 11 litres in when I fill it up so the reserve seems to be 4 litres on mine (which it isn't so I suspect a sensitive fuel sensor). Not sure if this helps, I am on a completely standard bike
Thanks, good to hear I'm not too far out then. My mate has a fireblade and he gets 45-50 I'm putting a 14T on the front next month when I replace my tyres, I'm hoping this doesn't knock it down further? btw, the tank is 13.5 including 3.5 litre reserve/fuel warning so your reserve will be about 2.5 according to your calculations.
When the yellow light comes on on an 1198 you have 20 miles to get fuel. 25 is you push your luck which i advise against. I can get 90-100 from a full tank.
2 year old evo with about 5000 miles and dealer fitted termi and serviced on time, etc. My typical commute is 20 mile round trip with not much traffic. A few 30/40 zones but mostly duel carriage way doing 50 - well, I might hit 90 if my hand slips My tank is showing warning light at about 80-90 miles so I've worked out I'm getting 10 miles per litre (about 8-11 litre fill up depending on when I fill up) giving 30mpg. This seems really low to me? I was expecing 40 at least. Any else with numbers?[/QUOTE] 10 miles per litre...... 4.5 Ltrs = 1 gallon. 4.5 x 10 = 45 mpg. There you go, improved your mpg......
Thanks Vaio... to be exact then if you take my last reading it was 75 miles to warning light and it took 10 litres to fill up so that's 33mpg.
If 33 is your lowest mpg, what is your highest? Having a scout around the other Ducati forums, on the subject, would appear 35-38 is average. http://www.ducatimonster.org/forums/general-monster-forum/207441-1100-evo-fuel-capacity-mileage.html Hope this helps... Changing your sprocket to 14t will give you better acceleration, more rpm to mph and therefore increase your mpg.
On the 999 it's closer to 50 mpg, riding normally but shortish winter trips with enthusiasm would reduce that. I know the 999 is no worse than the 749. I'd have expected the 848 to be very similar too.
Went out for a really long ride yesterday (Hartside, Rothbury, Hexham, Kielder) and apart from the bike being completely awesome my MPG went a tad over 40 So the low MPG is really down to commuting even though I thought it was a fairly smooth ride with few stops....
50...what are you doing glidd costing everywhere and driving like Daisy's chauffeur?! Lol Sounds like urban to hard acceleration, what do you expect?! Stick it at 70 on the mway and it'll do 140 to an empty tank...ride it around central london and its 85 probably tops. Like every other one
Yes, I do ride like a girl, but that's because I haven't mastered the art of going round corners yet You should see my chicken strips, they take up half the tyre.
On a longish trip, I'll reckon to get about 200km to reserve - ish. It's about 200km for 11 litres, which appears to be 5.5 litres per 100 km which is a bit over 50 mpg. No, I'm not normally spending much time over 7'000 rpm, but I'm not doing many built-up areas either. I actually get really good mileage at a steady ton on the motorway (sorry officer). In fact, if you ride it more slowly, you don't really do any better. But the 999 has lots of low-down stomp - you don't have to rev the tits off it. Actually, the 749 wasn't as good as this on fuel, for the year that I had one. I once went to Valencia on my 916 with 3 friends on a V-Max, a tuned Kawasaki 1000 thing and a Daytona without its fairing. At every fuel stop (we were all travelling together at the same pace) the Ducati drank the least, followed by the Triumph, the V-Max and then the Kawasaki. Ducatis are pretty good on fuel, it's just that they have noddy tanks these days.
I have had over 140 on a tank and not run out, put 14l in and that was 80+ everywhere. When I've been to germany, average speed 90+ getting there and I would still fill up about 9l for the 100 mile stops. Its the urban thats killing it Come hook us up in Germany glidd, see if you van keep up....:Kiss:
If your getting ten miles from every liter it was 45.4 mpg when i went to school :/ Or are you using those "everything is bigger in Amerca"except gallons?
