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Any figures for a gs1100e. stock airbox, 4 into 1, stage 1 kit. Just got 82 miles before hitting reserve. seem thirsty? thanks, rik
 
My bored out '82 gs1000g does 140miles to reserve, don't know if it uses the same size tank.
 
My stock 1983 GS1100E went yesterday 200 miles before reserve. Even with some spirited riding in between.
Would seriously look into that bad gas milage of yours.
Even Jethro with pods and a 4 into 1 gets better
 
Yeah, that's what I figured. First time I've had a good run since rebuild. Just been driving round town before so I didn't expect great mileage. Any clues? Mains are 1 size up over stock. Ticks over without choke after about a minute. I've seen a lot of people say their bike takes a long time to warm up. Primary circuit way too rich maybe? Rik
 
Have you done any tune up/maintenance work lately?
Was the fuel fresh in the tank? Air filter clean? Did you take any plug reads?
 
Yeah, I'm looking at mid 40's even with my pod filters and stage 3 kit. I've never hit reserve on this bike, but I'm thinking about 210 miles to a tank of gas is my range.
 
Wow... I'm only getting 32-38mpg in the 750. Apparently something isn't quite right!
 
My 83 1100E bored to 1197, head worked, derestricted intakes and rejetted to 130 mains is getting 41 mpg at 65 mph.

Earl
 
Blargh... Time to spring for a sync tool and go from there. Oh well, at least it tells me that it can get better. I suppose I can be happy that it will improve rather than frustrated that there's more work to do!
 
my 850G has shown 45 mpg on my highway trips at 65-75 mph


cya
brad
 
My '83 1100 gets 35 but I have some work to do on it. I can get better.
 
City- 35mpg
Highway- 46mpg

If you're mileage is crappy from driving around town, make sure you're not riding in higher gears. I typically try and keep it in 4th or 5th around town. If I ride it in 3rd, I notice a drop in mileage.

Brad tt
 
Pods and 4-into-one with rejetting on my 81 GS750L.

It consistently got horrible mileage until I upgraded to high quality sparkplugs and sparkplug wires.

I had a set of crappy (by automotive standards) cager sparkplug wires on the bike and it didn't burn the gas well. Had all kinds of fumes coming out the exhaust for the LONGEST time. Come to find out it was that the crappy wires weren't carrying the full energy from the coils to the sparkplugs.

:roll:
Go figure...

Dm of mD
 
fastpakr said:
Blargh... Time to spring for a sync tool and go from there. Oh well, at least it tells me that it can get better. I suppose I can be happy that it will improve rather than frustrated that there's more work to do!
Click to expand...
On a related note - what's the cheapest source for the tool? MAWOnline is the best I've found so far... I'm debating whether I want to spend about $40 on the tool or pay a shop $40 to do it for me.
 
I can tell you from experience with my old Honda......

NEVER under-estimate the power of new plugs/filter/oil and valve adjustment when it comes to increased MPG. Doing those 4 things help IMMENSELY!

Good luck.
 
Plugs, oil and oil filter, and valve adjustment should all be good (< 1000 miles). I need to look at cleaning and oiling the air filters though.
 
hmmm weird i am gettin horrid gas milage on my 850 GL myself, lets put it this way, went on a long ride with some buddies last weekend, I had to stop twice to fill up, non of them needed gas, finally on my third fill up "one" on the guys said screw it i'll fill up too, he held 3 bucks so obviously he was just trying to not make me feel bad for makeing everybody stop soo much, oh well at least she is running now :)
 
on my 1980 gs550e, i get around 45-50 mpg city driving.. and the best i ever got was 50 mpg, and that was on the tank of gas where i raced it at the track...3 1/4 mile runs...
 
My 81 GS650G gets 45-48MPG at 75MPH on the highway. Usually a strong headwind on the way home, so it is like I'm doing more like 95+.... so strong on Saturday that my bike would not go over 75!

Just crusing at 55-65MPH and I get over 50MPG.
 
Do all of you run premium (92 or 93 octane) gas? I run premium on a 100% stock 450 and get 45-50 in town and 58-61 with all highway miles.

Perhaps having half the carbs isnt so bad?
 
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