I agree. On my 1984 650 I get between 38-40 MPG on 87 and 45-47 on 93. Also, I seem to get better fuel mileage when my wife is on the back of the bike, a real life throttle limiter.
- Chris On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Timothy Stark <[email protected]>wrote: > on the topic of fuel grade I had a noticable diffrence in fuel miliage when > I switched from regular to premium in my 650. I was getting 37-40 mpg with > regular, and after I made the switch I started getting 40-47 mpg as long as > Ikept my hand out of the throttle too much( It also felt as if it had more > power.) > > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:41 PM, paul annen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> no, but diesel does have alot of the same fuel additives while being a >> better lubricant then gas is... and also alot cheeper then most of your >> cleaners >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Kurt Nolte <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Diesel (and biodiesel) works remarkably well at breaking up gasoline >>> gunk on valves... if you soak them in it. Soaking a valve or part in a >>> solvent and spraying that solvent across the part in service isn't >>> really equivalent in performance. I wouldn't recommend running diesel >>> through your bike to clean the valves, though. :p >>> >>> -Kurt >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Allen Thomas <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > I used to know a mechanic who took some exhaust valves from a worn out >>> engine and did a comparison whith a couple of gas treatments by soaking the >>> valves in it. According to him techron was the only one to break up the >>> gunk. >>> > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T >>> > >>> > -----Original Message----- >>> > From: jaybird248 <[email protected]> >>> > Sender: [email protected] >>> > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:15:28 >>> > To: Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!<[email protected]> >>> > Reply-To: [email protected] >>> > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Fuel grades? >>> > >>> > In the 75K miles I've put on my bike, I've never used anything but 87 >>> > regular. No problems at 100K miles, and getting about 50 MPG to boot. >>> > The NH is truly a low cost to operate bike and you might as well take >>> > advantage of it. One suggestion is to use Chevron or Texaco gas. They >>> > have an additive called Techron which is a lot like Seafoam in what it >>> > does. Most oil company "secret ingredients" are just hype, but this >>> > one seems to do as they say. >>> > >>> > Jay S >>> > NH750 >>> > South Florida >>> > >>> > -- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >>> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> . >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<nighthawk_lovers%[email protected]> >>> . >>> > For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >>> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> . >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<nighthawk_lovers%[email protected]> >>> . >>> > For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. >>> > >>> > >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<nighthawk_lovers%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. >>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<nighthawk_lovers%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nighthawk_lovers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
