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Average 35 MPG ? (How to increase fuel MPG)
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<blockquote data-quote="joedrum" data-source="post: 7163" data-attributes="member: 98"><p>gerry when idid all the gearing chanages on my bike everybody thought that i was going to get a lot better gas milage with all that rpm drop..... it didnt happen the mileage stayed the same...it takes a certain amount of energy to go 70mph and if your in efficent zone of the motor 500 to 700 rpm diference in that zone is not going to make any differense..... my bike got 46 mpg before and after gearing chanage....</p><p></p><p>it got my got so bad at one time i think i was getting about 30mpg thats when i had had enough and started to figure out why and do something about it....i had and still do have a 1990 mercury cougar supercharged xr7 3.8 v6 that would bark the tires shifting from second to third just by stepping on gas and letting it go in drive ,its an automtic....with its air to air intercooler the faster you went the meaner it gets....this car is so efficent that it would get 30mpg and more on trips....so i was getting as good gas mileage with the car as my bike...my bike was totaly on the other end of the scale....idid a lot of things to my bike to up the mpg....</p><p></p><p>ill make a bet with you gerry start mixing 8oz of atf in your gas per tank for two weeks and check the milage then....dont be shy about running it though the rpm range i dont mean you have to gun it all the time just run it one gear down for the condition and go though the rpm zone from 4 to 7 thousand rpm and gun it every now and then </p><p>and ride it normal at times ...im sure after awhile you will be very pleased and the mileage will be better and it will run better....</p><p></p><p>mine went from the low thirtys to 46mpg and i think im going to get to 50mpg before im done tinkering with this issue...not all the mileage change i got was from atf but the biggest percentage did though....</p><p></p><p>im very pleased about the mileage and the way my bike is running :yahoo: :yahoo: :music: :mrgreen:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joedrum, post: 7163, member: 98"] gerry when idid all the gearing chanages on my bike everybody thought that i was going to get a lot better gas milage with all that rpm drop..... it didnt happen the mileage stayed the same...it takes a certain amount of energy to go 70mph and if your in efficent zone of the motor 500 to 700 rpm diference in that zone is not going to make any differense..... my bike got 46 mpg before and after gearing chanage.... it got my got so bad at one time i think i was getting about 30mpg thats when i had had enough and started to figure out why and do something about it....i had and still do have a 1990 mercury cougar supercharged xr7 3.8 v6 that would bark the tires shifting from second to third just by stepping on gas and letting it go in drive ,its an automtic....with its air to air intercooler the faster you went the meaner it gets....this car is so efficent that it would get 30mpg and more on trips....so i was getting as good gas mileage with the car as my bike...my bike was totaly on the other end of the scale....idid a lot of things to my bike to up the mpg.... ill make a bet with you gerry start mixing 8oz of atf in your gas per tank for two weeks and check the milage then....dont be shy about running it though the rpm range i dont mean you have to gun it all the time just run it one gear down for the condition and go though the rpm zone from 4 to 7 thousand rpm and gun it every now and then and ride it normal at times ...im sure after awhile you will be very pleased and the mileage will be better and it will run better.... mine went from the low thirtys to 46mpg and i think im going to get to 50mpg before im done tinkering with this issue...not all the mileage change i got was from atf but the biggest percentage did though.... im very pleased about the mileage and the way my bike is running :yahoo: :yahoo: :music: :mrgreen: [/QUOTE]
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