2000 rc51 160-180 miles to a 4.75gallon tank. so between 33-40 depending on how hard im riding
Speedos read optimistic, so NO it doesnt promote speeding.
Ok well regardless. What sense is it to make the speedos read incorrectly from the factory? Why don’t they just make them read accurately? What’s the point.
It was explained to me like this;
There are stiff federal fines if an imported motorcycle has a speedo that shows SLOWER than actually moving. Therefore, Honda (and presumably others) intentionally error on the safe side with about a 5% ‘above actual speed’ reading. The error increases as speed increases though so the Honda speedos can be 10% too high when approaching triple figures on the speedo.
Real or myth, I don’t know. Twas what I’ve heard and been told without any verification, but it makes sense… I guess.
I ALSO LIKE THE “idiots who buy motorcycles like to think they are going faster than they truly are theory”
some bikes read the speed off of the front wheel, meaning if your doing a wheelie for a long enough time it would appear that the bike was going zero mph.
i checked yesterday. 38.1 mpg on the last tank.
i have a 98 cbr 600 F3. only performance mod i’m aware of is the jardine slip on.
^ i installed two turbos on it before you bought it, you might want to add that dan
2006 R1
Bone stock
low 30’s
i was wondering why every time i let the clutch out it flips over backwards.
I get about 40-50 mpg on mine, depending on how hard I romp on it.
'03 SV650
1990 katana 600
full exhaust
pod filters
jetted
weight reduction…
40ish city/highway