What kind of gas mileage do bikes get?

[clawhammer]

I currently drive a 1991 Honda CRX Si. I can easily average above 40 mpg with her on the highway, and once I even got 45 mpg!!! That's with a 200k mile engine. Well anyways with the price of gas going up, I'm thinking of selling the car asap, and saving as much money as possible throughout the winter and hopefully in the spring get a CBR600F4. What kind of gas mileage would that bike get when a: driven normally (70 mph highway) b: beating the hell out of it.

[Kurtdg19]

Well I get 50mpg out of my F2 during mainly city driving. Oh yea, and I don't always drive it conservatively. Hope this helps out any.

[Aces0vr8s]

i get about 35 outa my 98 cbr 600 driving it what id call the normal for most sport bike riders

[speediva]

Ace, you should be getting a lil better mileage out of that F3. I'd say atLEAST 40mpg.


My bike is lame, but it gets 50-53mpg. I ride anywhere from tame to hard on a given tank of gas.

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Originally Posted by saturntangerine

it gets 50-53mpg. I ride anywhere from tame to hard on a given tank of gas.

Yeah, when it is not sitting in my garage for a week. It is great on gas when you never ride it.

(Can you tell I am trying to convince her to go riding today?)

[chubster2003]

i got a 97 CBR f3 .. has sprocket conversion down 1 front up 2 back..

when i am riding like a bat outta hell... about 25mpg.. when i am riding nice and tame... about 40

my roomate.. has a 91 cbr f2 and he gets 40 rodding and 55 tame

[Jon Teeter]

My 98 gs 500e gets 55-60 mpg

[aussieidiot]

my 954 has a gauge built in to tell me how my consumption is on average at any one time. it varies from pussytime of 70mpg to 20 when i get on it. average of 40mpg

but i average 30mpg when i work it out over a whole tank

[road_rascal]

I get about mid 30's on my '98 Goldwing, mid 40's on the '97 750 Nighthawk and 750 Kawasaki.

[UncleBob]

in general, the small the bike, the better the mileage. There are scooters that get 100mpg, but they don't get over 30mph.

A ninja250 for example, gets 70mpg, but its also not very fast (although it can do 100mph with a slight backwind)

The bigger the engine, the more your throttle hand effects the gas mileage. Its quite possible to get 50mpg out of a liter bike (most anyway) but most people can't do it because they can't be that gentle on the throttle.

My ZRX (1100cc) has had 50+mpg a few times, but most days it gets around 35mpg these days....but I also turbo'd it and its making way more HP than most honda civics

[speediva]

Originally Posted by UncleBob

in general, the small the bike, the better the mileage. There are scooters that get 100mpg, but they don't get over 30mph.

A ninja250 for example, gets 70mpg, but its also not very fast (although it can do 100mph with a slight backwind)

The bigger the engine, the more your throttle hand effects the gas mileage. Its quite possible to get 50mpg out of a liter bike (most anyway) but most people can't do it because they can't be that gentle on the throttle.

My ZRX (1100cc) has had 50+mpg a few times, but most days it gets around 35mpg these days....but I also turbo'd it and its making way more HP than most honda civics

The thing about the scooters is mostly true... My mom has a Honda scooter (250cc... I forget the name right now) and it will get 80-90mpg regularly, and I pushed it HARD. Now, granted, hard on that thing still only got me to about 75mph down a slight grade, but the gas mileage didn't change much.