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04-20-2006, 12:34 PM
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| Grandpa Before My Time   Join Date: Jul 2005
Bike: 2008 Kawasaki KLR 650
Location: Dallas, Texas Directly above the center of the earth.
Posts: 11,240
|  Fuel Economy I am what you might call an aggressive driver/rider. I do not tailgate, flash my lights, cut people off, or weave in and out of traffic. I do tend to accelerate quickly, I will go with the fastest flow of traffic and I will goose the throttle to get past someone. For the next couple of weeks I’m trying an experiment on the bike. I’m going to keep the rpms below 3,500 during acceleration and no higher then 3,200 while driving down the road. In fifth this will be 70mph. I’m going easy on the acceleration and power braking as well. I want to see how much this will improve my gas mileage. In two weeks I should have my new pipes, air kit, and Techlusion TFI. I have been given settings for power and fuel economy from their tech support. This should give me a good baseline for what kind of fuel economy I can get from the new modifications. Under my normal driving I can get 160 miles out of a tank which equals 40mpg. The tank is 4.5 gallons but I have never been able to put more than 4 gallons in it. Anyone want to venture a guess as to how much of an improvement this new driving style will yield? Or if the modifications will improve fuel economy? |
