Fuel consumption
 

Well I was hoping for good fuel consumption, but i've only really managed about 40 to the gallon. Then last week I realized this was doing 70 - 80 on the motorway. So last week I stuck to back roads for my commute and did a trip to Brighton on A roads at the weekend and I managed 194 miles on 15.42 liters of fuel, which if I calculated right is 57 miles to the gallon and gives a theoretical 326 mile tank range! The lesson learnt here is don't do motorways... Back roads are more fun and don't really take that much more time, but use considerably less go juice!

It not just motorways its anything above 70mph. I find that i get good mpg when commuting as long as i dont sit at 75mph i dont know why but there seems to be a massive difference between 70mph and 75mph in mpg figures.

I know that when you increase your speed its harder to get your bike to push through the air etc etc but at 70-75 i wouldnt have thought it was that hard.

I still find your mpg figures low, i normally get 50-60 mpg and thats giving it some. Either that or you must be caining yours

I'm doing between 300/320 km before the fuel gauge flashes and the F Trip appears.

I've done up to 380km and added 21l to the 22l tank.

My commute is 60km (each way):
20 in town
35 on motorway
25 on back roads

I ride almost 100% on the motorway and even if I cruise 85-90 I can still get 52-55mpg (typicaly about 15-16l after 185miles - 2 days commuting). This is with a top box and a kreigs R35 rucksack which do seem to help reduce drag (increasing fuel effeciency by about 10%). Sub 80 does help and if I keep to nearer 70mph I'd almost certainly get over 60mpg.
I do always get much better economy off the motorway however, hardly surprising if you're usually running the bike at 5-5.5k rpm range.

The bike does seem to loosen up with age however, mine has done 12k miles now.

For a city commute i'm getting a pretty consistent 48mpg. When running in my bike i once got 60mpg!
Overall i'm very happy with the fuel consumption - i don't treat the bike gently and getting nearly 50mpg in snarled up London traffic is impressive.

Did 1500km last weekend on the Ten. About 350km highway and the rest was, let's call it "spirited", riding in mountainous terrain.
Consumption was consistently under 5L/100km.

The fuel indicator does seem a bit pessimistic though as every time it had gone to reserve and I filled her up again I could not get more than 16,5L in the tank.

Yes, i think everyone on the forum seems to say that the fuel gauge/warning trip meter is pessimistic. As soon as my fuel gauge starts flashing i know that i have at least 30 miles/50km before i need to start looking for fuel.

As I said:

I do between 300km and 320km before the fuel gauge start flashing.

Then I can do 60km and I refill with 20 to 21 litres.

So that's 380km with 21litres

Thats about 5.5L/100km.

Going From Ireland to italy and back next week, 2 up.
I'll keep you updated

I'd probaly say 50-60 miles is more likly, with up to 90 miles on reserve if you're ally taking it gently

reserve is 6.7l, which is 1.47 gallons. at 60mpg thats approx 90 miles.

Yesterday I did 45 miles on reserve and still had over 2l left in the tank when i filled up.

I've done lots of ridin' the last couple of days, mostly backroads: an average of 1lt to 25km's, that'll get me more then 500km's far(575 to be precize, with reserve), but I'll fuel up at 500km's. On the highway, doin' 120kmh, I'll get 21km's out of 1lt fuel, so that'll get me more then 450km's far(483km's), but I'll search a gasstation around 400km's, also to stretch my legs and get a drink. Pretty damn fine fuel economy!! One of the very strong points of the Tenere, I think, still goin' strong after more then 16.000km's 'till today! Sorry, guys&gals, for the metric figures, but y'all gotta convert them, please.
Greetz, Hans.

P.s.: like I said before, I don't watch the fuel-gauge, but ride on the tripmeter.