im getting about 65 miles from full to resurve is this about right this is riding mostly back roads and around town

I get an easy 100 on mine before hitting reserve, its not a standard bike either.

It depends alot on how you ride and what state of tune the bike is in.

Working it out VERY roughly, from memory, the main tank is about 10 litres (a fraction under 2 gallons) so you're getting roughly 32.5mpg which is horrific. Both of my 400's will do around 55-70mpg depending on the type of riding I'm doing

Thats terrible.

Unless this is a fully tuned race-bike with ram-air, huge jets and what not i'd expect nearly double that.

I rag mine terrible, red line in most gears and it still does 150 miles to a tank.

What do you spark-plugs look like, what is the end-can look like?

I managed to get 47 miles out of a tank on my ZXR when the carbs were broken.. it was pissing out fuel into the engine.. bike rode like shite and the plugs were black as the end-can...

if it is running ok and not over-fuelling i'd check for fuel leaks.. that is worse than 2 strokers!

I agree with Neo.That is appalling.I have had a faired NC21,an nc24 that lost its fairing, and my present VFR400K and all have managed between 45 and 60 mpg depending on the type of riding.Even if you are not changing gear until the valves bounce you should be doing a lot better so there has to be something wrong

I can take a quick look if you want when you drop off the clutch rod

Adam.

That is what it was doing the first day i put it on road it ran nice pulled well uptill 90mph and would not go any harder no mater what!!!!! and no its not resticded but then on day two BANG wasnt even giving it any. From what i can make out a valve snapped makeing one hell of a mess in there. will have to see what it dose with new engine in hopefully should arive on tuesday

..wtf

dazzauk2009 wrote:That is what it was doing the first day i put it on road it ran nice pulled well uptill 90mph and would not go any harder no mater what!!!!! and no its not resticded but then on day two BANG wasnt even giving it any. From what i can make out a valve snapped makeing one hell of a mess in there. will have to see what it dose with new engine in hopefully should arive on tuesday

Ouch, that would indeed be the answer to your problem :S