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V2. Rode the three sisters with wifey over the weekend. Highway riding to and from our mileage wasn’t that great no top box but had the shad SH23 side cases. Combined rider weight of two healthy adults maybe 400ish pounds. I only kept track of one of the fill ups, and that was because the fuel light was flashing and wifey was concerned we would be stranded on the side of the road. 4.8 gallons over 155 miles is just a little over 32mpg. Speed limit 70-75 much of the way and we were trying to beat the sunset if that tells you anything
 
Seriously, around 600km several times. As judged by the k's covered and the amount of fuel put in - not by the km/l on the display. I haven't done the full 600k's, but 400 and 2/3rds of a tank of gas when I stopped. And yeah, it takes slow speeds (~80kph) and 6th gear but there are some long rides around here where sightlines keep you to those speeds.
 
My 2014 showed 430km a few times when I was tripping up North. the trick was to use non ethanol fuel, 92 or higher, and to keep the RPM's below 4k all the time.
Recently, I re-learned how much more efficient non ethanol is. Drove my 2000 Tundra to Reno from California. The tank was essentially empty on arrival. Filled it up for the return trip with non ethanol and l still had over half a tank when I got home. Not scientific and I acknowledge that Reno is at a higher altitude (uphill). But still a huge difference.

I mention this, not to bang on fuel laws but that when we talk about fuel mileage here we should include the ethanol content as a part of the baseline info.
 
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Got this yesterday. I'm impressed with the fuel mileage when you don't flog it. Notice the trip showing the KMs driven and the range left. Averaged 4.8L/100KM.
 

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FYI, the above was done driving 50-65 MPH across varied back country roads and twisties. I definitely flogged her a few times, but was gentle on the throttle the majority of the ride.
 
Seriously, around 600km several times. As judged by the k's covered and the amount of fuel put in - not by the km/l on the display. I haven't done the full 600k's, but 400 and 2/3rds of a tank of gas when I stopped. And yeah, it takes slow speeds (~80kph) and 6th gear but there are some long rides around here where sightlines keep you to those speeds.
80 KPH in 6th, must be a little choppy at that low of an RPM.

I'm the same as most, floating around the 400 mark.... with a little effort. riding normally, it will register around 360 - 370km immediately after filling up.
 
80 KPH in 6th, must be a little choppy at that low of an RPM.

I'm the same as most, floating around the 400 mark.... with a little effort. riding normally, it will register around 360 - 370km immediately after filling up.
Nope, I'll admit I'll change down if there's traffic but it's smooth enough at those rpm's just flowing through the corners.

Those k's are done on quiet country roads with really poor sightlines (heavy forest), 80kph is safish, much faster and the odds of being wrapped around a oncoming 4x4 or an animal go up a lot. There are bends but mostly easy ones at that speed so there's no real need to change gear either. Very nice 2 hour ride each way if you take your time, extremely wearing if you up the speed so I'm actually faster than most overall by taking my time (I've regularly passed groups of parked up sportsbikes multiple times on those roads, @130kph+ it's really tiring).
 
sorry, thought you were talking about a 1000, just reread your first post.
I have both. I get insane range on the 1000 as well, I usually get ~440k's/tank same ride that can get 600 on the 650 gets ~500ks/tank and 550 looks barely possible on the 1000 - worth knowing if I have problems with gas stations being closed. Gear choice is usually 5th at those speeds on the 1000. But again, I seem to have been lucky, both the 650 and the 1000 I have will pull relatively low rpm's without issues. The 1000 really is the lazy mans choice though, there's seldom any need to change gear when I'm touring.

The clutch has been a surprise on the 1000, it's at 30,000k's and I've been expecting issues with the clutch but all I have is some idle hammer.
 
I have both.
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The 1000 really is the lazy mans choice though, there's seldom any need to change gear when I'm touring.
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In another thread I made a comment how on the DL1000 (in particular the 2014+) you can ride it in a lazy fashion and someone seemed to get upset thinking I was saying he was lazy.

But I have always thought that, for the most part, people ride at pretty much the sames speeds on both the DL650 and their DL1000 but the 1000 you can be much lazier about shifting, etc. while the 650 I tended to rev out all the time and go up and down the gears like crazy, it was fun doing that with that tranny/motor combo! (Of course when you do crank it the 1000 is much quicker/faster.)

..Tom
 
I have both. I get insane range on the 1000 as well, I usually get ~440k's/tank same ride that can get 600 on the 650 gets ~500ks/tank and 550 looks barely possible on the 1000 - worth knowing if I have problems with gas stations being closed. Gear choice is usually 5th at those speeds on the 1000. But again, I seem to have been lucky, both the 650 and the 1000 I have will pull relatively low rpm's without issues. The 1000 really is the lazy mans choice though, there's seldom any need to change gear when I'm touring.

The clutch has been a surprise on the 1000, it's at 30,000k's and I've been expecting issues with the clutch but all I have is some idle hammer.
I am having a hard time believing the 1000 can get 500kms on a tank under any circumstances. That would imply 4L/100KM average with a completely empty tank. Seriously? How fast are you going and how straight is this road?
 
I am having a hard time believing the 1000 can get 500kms on a tank under any circumstances. That would imply 4L/100KM average with a completely empty tank. Seriously? How fast are you going and how straight is this road?
Maybe steady state easy riding.

The best mileage I actually got on a tank was 4.3 l/100km indicated which would work out to 465 km on the 20 liter tank. 4 l/100 km would be 500 km.

..Tom
 
I am having a hard time believing the 1000 can get 500kms on a tank under any circumstances. That would imply 4L/100KM average with a completely empty tank. Seriously? How fast are you going and how straight is this road?
350-450k long rides depending on how many of the side roads I take. There's a network of rural roads inland of here, all narrow two lane flowing roads through heavy forest so sight lines are poor but the corners are easy with a few exceptions. I consider a safe speed through most of that ~80kph with a few open 100kph sections. So those are my Saturday morning rides, generally there and back via a different route, usually no stops (if <400ks). So I don't go through a full tank, but most of one from full then refuel again near home so I'm fairly confident on those numbers.

It's the constant speed and steady throttle that gets those numbers, rural Australia is big and empty so I often do those distances without much in the way of traffic or passing.
 
On a recent 2100 mile trip, I was amazed by the accuracy of the "Range" distance to empty. The bike must be monitoring fuel consumed and calculating how much distance is left. Whereas I'd push my '07 Wee past empty on the gauge, I take the range gauge seriously.
 
I have to learn to look at my dash more.

I took a long ride last Wednesday, when I went to return home my bike (V2) would not fire up, both fuel indicators were flashing and my range was reading zero, I don't know how long that had been happening for.

I took the bike off the kick stand and stood it straight up and down, this got the motor fired up.

It was only 3ks to the nearest fuel so I made it and managed to put 20.55lt in the tank.

I normally have extra fuel on my panier racks but had removed them for a registration inspection and had not put them back, Murphy's Law in play again.
 
Mine usually says about 230 miles of range after a fillup. I'm cationing everyone on the range indicator when the tank starts getting really low. This past weekend the range indicated I had about a 13 mile cushion to where I planned to fill up. Approximately 20 miles later when I got to that gas station the range was indicaring I only had 2,5 miles left. Somehow over that 20 miles I lost 10 miles of range, and I was babying it to save gas.
 
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