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Posted by jmbo
- September 14, 2015, 20:52:52 PMMy '99er 1500 gets a solid 40mpg on combo city and back road riding. That gets me about 120 miles to the light which is about the right time to get off and stretch my bones a bit. It dropped to 35 earlier in the season until I found out the front exhaust seal was loose and it was sucking air. Tightened it and back up to 40. I'll get 45 MPG on a steady expressway cruise but who the hell wants to ride the expressways when there are back roads.
Posted by kw-retrorider
- September 13, 2015, 04:51:16 AMI average 50mpg with my 800....nothing less than 45mpg when I do a lot of around town short driving and get on it. Easy to do over 50 on full tanks on the highway at 60mph. Stock carb with roadhouse baffled up; stock gearing.
Posted by LarryInSeattle
- September 13, 2015, 03:37:00 AMI feel lucky when I get 40 mpg on my 800. Most of my riding is in town. I gas up every 100 miles. I wish they would have put a bigger tank on the 800, but I live with it.
I carry a small 2 quart container of stabilized fuel when traveling in case I need a stretch.
Posted by Troll
- September 12, 2015, 21:28:07 PMFuel mileage is such a delicate thing...When I first got my 1500, it was getting 37-40 mpg. Totally unacceptable. My 1980 TourGlide with 200,000 miles on it was getting 50...I played with inputs to the computer, air intake restriction and exhaust. I now get 45 all the time and as much as 52 at higher altitudes. I normally fill my 5 gallon tank at about 180 miles. My W-650 actually gets better MPG, but the tank is a gallon smaller, so 160 is about the extent of a tank full. A rejet with a DynoJet kit and a fix to the restrictive air intake actually netted better mileage, as well as improved drivability.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- September 12, 2015, 20:58:50 PMlol here we go again.....lol.....
About every 95 miles I start to look for a gas station, I have run it till the reserve was reached on a couple occasions, then had a real bitch of a time getting the bike to start and run properly but once it did it was fine. My next long trip next srping will be to P.E.I. and I'll do my calculations then once more....
Posted by Tfrank59
- September 12, 2015, 18:00:37 PMThis doesn't matter a whole lot to me, but so far I'm getting about 40 MPG (city), and this guy on craigslist claims 55 miles per gallon consistently on the 800 drifter he's selling. What are y'all gettin for mileage? Again it's not that important -- my Valkyrie only gets 25 ~ 30 MPG -- but I just wonder if my 800's not running right if I'm only getting 40 MPG in the city. Thanks for your feedback.
Tom