real gas mileage for FZ6

[Silver05]

Here is some more data. I zero my trip odometer and my GPS fuel odometer when I fill up. This is how the number look:

FZ6- 199.4 miles; GPS says 197.6 miles
FZ6- 173.8 miles; GPS says 171.7 miles

That is within about 1%

My GPS is still reading a steady 3 mph lower when my FZ6 spedo is reading between 65 and 80 mph

Remember that your ODOMETER will be closer than the SPEEDOMETER. That might not make sense, but also consider this is not a cable driven system. Yamaha (and other manufacturers) make the speedometer off by roughly 5-7% - but the odometer is pretty accurate with this speed error.

So basically for me, you have confirmed this - even though your speedo is off about 3 mph, your ODO is still pretty good (1% is pretty good in my book!)

 

[madmanmaigret]

I have had a chance in the last month or so to put my mileage to the test. I was driving 50 miles one way to work all on the highway, so I was running ~3 tanks per week through the fz. This is what I found.

around town: average 35-38 mpg

on highway normal Madman driving: 35-38 mpg

driving Mrs. Daisy on the highway 45-50 mpg

my driving Mrs. Daisy was, not attacking on/off ramps, no more than 1/4-1/2 throttle (unless absolutely nessesary), top cruising speed of 85 mph (indicated), good body position (tucked in behind the screen), and trying to not fall asleep.

You can get good gas mileage if you try but the fizzer is just too fun to putz around on it, one place I did get awesome gas mileage was an accident on the highway and I got to lane split and sidewalk ride for over 8 miles of bumper to bumper traffic! man those cagers hated me!

 

[Avalon786]

You can get good gas mileage if you try but the fizzer is just too fun to putz around on it!

Soooo True!