fuel consumption

[BKKBuell]

1st my apology: I am a metric

I realized that my XB9 uses 11 liter on 90km in city traffic. She is running fine, the plugs look fair... so wft could be wrong?

 

[BuellyBagger]

wow if my quick figure to standard units is right thats alot of fuel! How hard r u riding it? what type of gasoline?

 

[Dingo]

my XB12 runs between 4.5 to 6.5 lt/100km but but no City driving...

11/90km thats almost impossible! you must have a leak!![sad]

 

[djohnk]

Converting:
11 liters = 2.906 US gallons
90 km = 55.923 miles
55.923/2.906 = 19.244 mpg

 

[Hooker]

i just put gas in my bike this evening. the dealer CLAIMED that they filled it before i picked it up, but i managed 98mi before my fuel light came on and not wanting to replace a 200$ fuel pump, i will not let this tank run dry. i put Shell Nitrogen Enhanced 93 octane into it and we'll see how that runs, but if the dealer did in fact put gas in, i managed a sad 36mpg. i have been doing a little bit of hot rodding here and there, but nothing insane, however, i think my bike is running super rich. the exhaust REEKS and dumps black smoke, the plugs were fouled to ****, and the bike has no backfires, yet it has a K&N intake and D&D exhaust. im guessing the people who traded the bike in did some sort of crappy engine tune before me? hopefully this is a resolvable problem cause im not going to be happy with MPGs in the 30s this summer. i bought the bike to save money and it wont be getting much better mileage than my Audi.

 

[Xb12armyguy]

Just flash a new tune in it, do a tps reset, iridium plugs and you should be good

 

[Hooker]

i actually re-mapped it to the race tune, reset the TPS & AFV, and i have NGK DCPR8EIX plugs on the way! the bike runs a lot better, but i think that the stealership lied about the gas anyway because even before i did all the computer work, i filled it up again and averaged 54mpg the second time. My bike needs some good plugs though because it gets a really bad hiccup when cruising at low speeds.

 

[Hooker]

i filled up again today and even with the race tune, K&N filter, and D&D pipes, i still managed 49mpg (with a few 120mph runs on the back country roads too!)

 

[wolfo68]

Hooker, you might want DCPR9EIX plugs, those 8's tend to make the bikes run hot and crappy.

 

[Hooker]

ok! well it does get kinda hot here in illinois in the summer. and i might be riding down to my condo in Florida this summer, soooo ill have to check them out