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Snakeboy · # 9 10-11-15, 04:30

Increased fuel consumption again

Hello guys

I am now in Australia on my long trip. Took off from Darwin two weeks ago and are riding anti clockwise around Oz.Have done The Gibb River Road. For the moment near Port Hedland.

The Tenere became better after following Pleiades advise about turning back the knop on Kevs mod. I turned it back from 5 to 2. And fuel consumption was almost back to normal through Indonesia - although hard to say exactly due to bad fuel and low average speed/chaotic traffic.z

However here in Australia the fuel consumption is as high as never before. I can get just around 20 kms pr liter. Thats almost 20 % more than before! I have gone down one tooth on the back sprocket and are running 47 now. So that should have helped. New tyres and right pressure and cleaned airfilter before I took off so that shouldnt be the problem. Have turned the knobon the Kev mod back to 12 now since its very hot here - it has been between 32 and 41 so far.

I am not riding hard - just 90-100 on the highway so no excess speeding. Bike is carrying approx the same weight as before.

Anyone that can give me any advise?

If the Kev mod is set at low tempratures - is there any way to reset it so that it can be better adjusted to the high tempratures in Australia?

I had the error code 22 (air intake temprature sensor) appearing on and off for a while and definetively on after the corrugations on Gibb River Road - but I have fixed that lose cable now. It seemed however that the bike got better fuel consumption while the air intake sensor was not working. The Ecu sets automatically to a temprature of 20 degrees if this is not working....

The bike is running smooth and normal so it doesnt seem to be ny problems that way. Its a while since I had the valves done - around 23 k kms - could it be that valves are not right? I will have the valves done when in Perth.

Any suggestions and advise appriciated!