how many miles to a tankfull

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lofty

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Hi folks if this goes all wrong forgive me its taken me a week to find out how to start a thread, anyway does anyone know roughly how many miles to a tank full i should get from my 900ss, not thrashing but steady away
 
you should have practised at the bar :p

dont know about the 900ss, i can squeeze 130 on the 749 and easily got 120 on the 996 riding quickly (for me)

what are you getting?
 
This doesn,t sound too good does it . Had the bike since last july thought it seemed a bit heavy on juice but no idea what it should be doing.
 
Not sure when it was serviced, its going into motostrada next month for a head or base gasket on the front barrel so i will ask them to take a look.
 
I wouldn't worry about too much, I run basically the same engine as you, with a few tuning bits it empties it's tank (ok it's only 8 ltrs) in about 90 miles, and goes down to about 40 (roughly 23mpg) at knockhill :eek:

...who cares, it's a large air-cooled engine with a bit of oil cooling, it's gonna drink!!! :p
 
ProjectImola004 said:
I wouldn't worry about too much, I run basically the same engine as you, with a few tuning bits it empties it's tank (ok it's only 8 ltrs) in about 90 miles, and goes down to about 40 (roughly 23mpg) at knockhill :eek:

...who cares, it's a large air-cooled engine with a bit of oil cooling, it's gonna drink!!! :p
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The 600ss racebike drinks ALOT of fuel, ALOT I say, ain't got an accurate figure but did about 30 litres on the Brands Hatch Indy TD, only did 5 sessions and didn'y once do the full session, + 15 mins qualifying then 2 x 10 lap races ! Thats not many miles I tell thee !
 
lofty said:
it seems to be around 80 ,90 miles and the little light starts warn me
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The idiot light on my Paso 906 starts flickering when the tank is still half full ! Looking inside the tank there appears to be some strange contraption that controls the tank level indicator. On a brim full tank i can do a round trip to Bridlington, just, about 150 miles.
 
Yorky said:
The idiot light on my Paso 906 starts flickering when the tank is still half full ! Looking inside the tank there appears to be some strange contraption that controls the tank level indicator. On a brim full tank i can do a round trip to Bridlington, just, about 150 miles.
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you can actually adjust the sender unit in the tank (not sure if the Paso one is the same as the SS models though) I set mine so that it has about 1.5 ltrs in it when the light comes on.
 
When I had the 900ss it would about 120 - 130 miles until the light came on. I would usually fill it up by 150 miles but reckon it would go about 180 or so to empty. Mind you I did a track day on it and nearly emptied the tank in 100 miles.
 
I remember my beloved Suzuki RG500 Gamma - it used to be as thirsty as my old LandRover; I would normally get 14-17mpg out of it; you only ever thrash those things, mind you, it had a largish tank so it did make up for its thirst!!

...sorry, I'm hijacking this thread with Jap stuff, I suppose it's still related coz we're talking about fuel.
 
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ProjectImola004 said:
I remember my beloved Suzuki RG500 Gamma - it used to be as thirsty as my old LandRover; I would normally get 14-17mpg out of it; you only ever thrash those things, mind you, it had a largish tank so it did make up for its thirst!!

...sorry, I'm hijacking this thread with Jap stuff, I suppose it's still related coz we're talking about fuel.
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show off !! :p

/ian
 
I thought mine was a bit thirsty untill I found the tank breather didnt have a non return valve in it & I was dumping fuel onto the road (& me back tyre - but thats another story) - got red light at 85.

now it's red light at 100ish & ive managed to squeeeeeeeeeeezzeee
130
 
Well, last night......on a full tank....mines runs to Moffat and back, over to Tesco's at Corstrorphine and runs out 400 yards from my house!!!! :mad: :mad:
 
Davieravie said:
Well, last night......on a full tank....mines runs to Moffat and back, over to Tesco's at Corstrorphine and runs out 400 yards from my house!!!! :mad: :mad:
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...in the words immortalised by Captain Mainwaring...

"Stupid Boy!"
 
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Oh....and I forgot to add in the little stretch of road from Moffat to St Marys Loch.......thats about 10 miles...X2...so that makes 164, less the 400 yds... ;)
 
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