| Author | Message | ||
     Swordsman |
WOW! I just have bothered to fully calculate the MPG for my XB12Ss. I consistently refuel when the light comes on (almost always 200 miles, +/- 5 miles), and it always takes right around 3.5 gallons to top it off. So: 200 / 3.5 = 57 mpg! Man, that's some great mileage!!!   ~SM (Just a note: I'm fully stock aside from Splitfire plugs and a crankcase breather hose reroute) | ||
| Mikef5000 |
That's incredible. What kind of riding do you do? The only way I'd get even close to that (On my cyclone) would be to cruise at 50-60 for the entire tank. | ||
| Swordsman |
I'm pretty easy going. Most of my 25 mile commute is wide open road (HWY 53 between Calhoun and Rome, GA), and I usually cruise between 60-70 mph. I don't generally throttle it around town, usually due to traffic, so not a lot of hard acceleration. If it's any clue, I've yet to pull a wheelie in the 1.5 years I've had it, so yeah, I guess I might baby it more than most people! ~SM  | ||
| Davefla |
Buell mileage varies directly with Buell hooliganism...  | ||
| Froggy |
I get about 54mpg on my Ulysses, hard acceleration, wheelies, offroading. Oh yea also got the race kit and cold air intake. I could do better with gas if i didn't like having fun  | ||
| 07xb12scg |
I only calculated fuel mileage once and it was 44MPG. My bike is all stock. If it's any clue, I've yet to pull a wheelie in the 1.5 years I've had it, so yeah, I guess I might baby it more than most people! How in the world can you resist cranking the throttle and lofting the front end if even just a few inches off of the ground? (Message edited by 07xb12scg on July 03, 2007) | ||
| Fdl3 |
How in the world can you resist cranking the throttle and lofting the front end if even just a few inches off of the ground? I'm not a good uni-cycle rider myself...  | ||
| Swordsman |
"I'm not a good uni-cycle rider myself..." Ha, ditto on that! I've NEVER ridden a wheelie on anything... just got started on bikes maybe, what, 2 years ago now? So no, I'm not terribly enticed to go experimenting on my $10.5k ride. I'll completely release the front suspension, but to my knowledge the front tire has never left the pavement. ~SM | ||
| Nickcaro |
if you are completely releasing the front suspension then a wheelie is knocking on your door. I found myself lifting up leaving red lights and occasionally from a roll in second. I got so used to it that I thought nothing of it and never claimed to anyone that I was popping wheelies. I did it a little more, a little more.... and then one day I saw the reflection of my headlight on the back of a van and nearly peed my pants when I saw how far up I was really going. ...now I need to learn how to manage it better and actually do it when I want to and not by chance... | ||
| Froglosopher |
After a good saturday ride on my 06 Lightning Long About 200 miles (up - down canyons, some freeway)I topped off the fuel before and after and calculated I was getting just better than 61 MPG. | ||
| Indy_bueller |
I calculated mine yesterday at 50mpg. All highway. I get about 45 if its all on the streets. | ||
| Drfudd |
I have an XB12Ss as well and I usually ride it to work which is only about 2 miles from here and I typically average around 40mpg because I'm usually pretty hard on the throttle pulling out into traffic. When I ride the back roads just to ride I can average 50-55 mpg which is great, I just wish I could get that riding to work everyday! | ||
| Tdiddy |
I've never figured out the mileage but the fuel light comes on around 155. I don't really go by the light for fill ups. I watch the trip counter. When it hits 135+/- 10, I'll pull it in for gas. I live 3 miles from work but the trip home every morning takes about 35 miles and I ring the siht out of it every day. 25 dollars a week for gas. Not bad. | ||
| Prof_stack |
My '03 XB9S has averaged 58 mpg for the last 10 tanks. Easy rider me. | ||
| Dbird29 |
My mileage has gone up in the 90+ degree heat. Last tank was 57 MPG, up from my normal 46 MPG. | ||
| Ebuella_virus |
My 12R usually gets around 48mpg as I rip through the twisties, hit it around town, and average around 75-80 on my 25 mile commute. When I ride with my Cruiser buddies (55- 65mph) I get around 55mpg on long runs. On a ride down the hill from Lake Tahoe with those guys, I got 63mpg (thanks to Isaac Newton)!! Incidentally, I don't know if it makes a difference, but my mpg went up around +2mpg after switching to Royal Purple Synthetic Oil recently (last 5 fill ups) and also in the primary. Not too sure why, but my buddy who sells the stuff swears that that's the reason why.  | ||
| Xring |
I average 50-60 mpg on my daily commute, depending on the route I take , 45-50 mpg on the interstate at 70 mph; and an incredible 70 mpg on the Blue Ridge Parkway (run out whole tanks of gas at 50 mph in 5th gear, with no stopping). 2004 9S with K&N filter the only mod. Yeah, I ride easy. Lean angle is what makes me giggle. Bill | ||
| Sslowmo |
i get around 48 on my xb12r. drummer pipe, k$n filter, swiss cheese airbox. i ride in the mother load. nothing but twisties. hard on the gas when ever possible Aaron | ||
| Bugman |
A stock XB12 ridden conservatively with more highway than city riding will consistently average 55-60 MPG. I have been doing it on my 04 since new. I think the XB9's are a little better, but not by much. | ||
| Blackbelt |
I am getting 46 mpg on my 12R. Although it still only has 766 miles on the odo... | ||
| Mikemax |
I fill up to the fuel neck for repeatability and almost always get just about 43 MPG no matter if I'm commuting, touring, city, or open road. I have seen 50 MPG on three tanks in 17,000 miles including the first when I was babying it, but not on the second while still babying it. 2006 Ss. I also don't wheelie, except on accident when between creeping cagers at a light once. I do weigh over 200 lbs and figure that may be more important than how one rides. My fuel light comes on about 160. One of the few real big complaints I have about the bike, and still not too bad. | ||
| Cyko_bob |
Heck, when I was breaking in my XB9S (keeping it below 3K RPM), I once got 67 MPG. I was afraid to tell anyone...would think I was lying. I checked several more times, and consistently got above 60 MPG while keeping the RPM down. Even now (about 12K on the bike), I still get in the upper 50s and sometimes lower 60s if I am not pushing it...all depends on the riding. As for wheelies, they are so easy on the XB...especially love to lift the front end up when I hit second gear. Actually, I got the front end up slightly one time in fourth...was going up an incline/bridge. Things must have been just right. BTW, once in the air, use your wrist...small increments. Most of us naturally jerk the wrist and the front end comes down quickly. Small movements of the wrist is what they teach at OnOneWheel. | ||
| Swordsman |
Mikemax, I really wonder if my crankcase breather hose reroute has something to do with my good MPG. My Ss generates a ton of that nasty beige sludgy stuff... enough so that it would cause the bike to skip now and again at steady throttle. After I rerouted the hoses, it quit doing that. All that junk was being pumped back into the intake... I think it would HAVE to have some effect on fuel efficiency. If you haven't done that yet, might give it a try. ~SM | ||
| Xbswede |
Mikemax, a lot of it has to do with the load of the engine. Heavier riders will get less millage as well as being throttle happy. I weight 235 and my best is 52 and my worst is 41. I average 46 mpg on my 12Ss commuting. This is after almost 10k miles. | ||
| Xl1200r |
Buell mileage varies directly with Buell hooliganism... Truer words have never been spoken... I get high 40's to low 50's generally, ripping through town and the curves and what not. I break 60 on a regular basis when on longer trips - no highway, but still mostly crusing at about 50-60mph. The last time I calculated it on a trip I was getting 66mpg (compared to my buddies old BMW with a sidecar who was getting 26mpg...haha) | ||
| Perry |
I get 58 mpg commuting at 80-85 mph on my XB, but it drops a bit when I am riding hard. Even with the hardest riding I have never gotten less than 45 mpg. Chalk it up as just one more excuse to ride... | ||
| Mikemax |
Got a link to that breather re-route? Is a catch can part of that? Funny, I just got almost 50 MPG on a tank where I mixed sitting in a couple of traffic jams where there were no lanes to split and probably running as hard as I have yet on a twisty hilly back road. | ||
| Xbrad9r |
i prefer to use the smiles per gallon ration...the smiles cut down on the miles though. | ||
| Ryker77 |
I only get 47 mpg but that is in my VW diesel car! And thats with a larger turbo and huge injectors putting down over 320ftlbs of pure diesel torque  |
