Comparing how we ride our Spyders - what does your trip meter say??

[Sundown]

Whenever I am departing on a long ride, I like to reset the "Trip A" trip odometer to see on how much ground I've covered that day. I've never needed a second trip odometer so "Trip B" just happens to have been running continuously ever since I took delivery of my RTL two years ago. Along with total miles, the trip odometer also calculates average speed, hours, and MPG so in my case, I have over 13,000 miles of that data. While I never set out to gather this information, I do find it interesting to see how one ride compares to the total average.

This got me wondering if others out there do the same thing. For those of us that like to look at data and happen to have a trip odometer that has been running over time, I thought perhaps we could compare how we ride our Spyders. Here's mine:

Average Speed: 51 mph
Duration: 252.9 hrs
Distance: 13045.5 mi
Average Fuel Consumption: 35.0 mpg

 

[Danvirsse]

Nope. I ride "short" (60-100 miles) most dry days during the riding season, with longer multi-day trips interspersed throughout. Trip A is always the mileage on the current tank of fuel and Trip B is always the miles since the last oil change.

Your data is interesting, and I do keep track of mpg, which is an average of 38.9 mpg with the approximately 5300 miles I've ridden this season. My average speed is probably much like yours.

 

[jjc54]

Trip A is for mileage on current tank and Trip B is reset at the beginning of each month. MPG is computed each month with actual miles driven and fuel used. Overall, 75939 miles ridden and 2012.1 gallons used. 37.74 MPG.

 

[Sundown]

With respect to MPG, I have set the trip odometer a few times when filling up and then calculated my actual mpg compared with what the bike says. I have found that actual mpg is a couple points better (37 actual mpg vs 35 mpg on the display)

 

[blacklightning]

I typically use Trip A for rides longer than 100 miles, or reset it at each fill up of fuel. Trip B is what I use to keep track of oil changes. I reset it each time I get it serviced. I do that for all my bikes and cars.

 

[Jesster72]

Trip A is reset at each fill up - it is my fuel gauge. Trip B is mostly unused, but is reset at the beginning of each annual trip we take. It's a little redundant, as we journal our long trips (and most weekend ones) and I track mileage and fuel in the journal. I just flip to trip B a few times during the trip and announce - we are 1,200 miles into it, or when we pull into the garage I can check quick and see how many miles the entire trip was.

 

[baxter]

I recently came back from a 3200 miles ride. Many back roads and some interstate driving. On interstates 70-75 mostly. On state and county two lanes around 63 and on dusty gravel roads 20-30. I used trip a daily tracking but left trip b alone for entire trip. When looking at trip b for total miles and fuel average saw that i averaged 41mpg. Note, roads today are not getting smoother so cut the speeds down a tad for better ride.

 

[Redbeard]

Trip A is reset at each fill up - it is my fuel gauge. I ryde most days for 75 to 100 miles. Trip B I use for Oil change reminder.

 

[JayBros]

Like many, I use Trip A for my tank fill up record. Trip B is for multiday junkets, the latest D3WR, that was 4,086. What is important when on tour is that my touring partner's F3 has different gear ratios that cause his engine to run about 550 rpm higher in top gear than my RT. That means I start hunting for fuel stops anywhere between 150 and 170 miles depending on the roads we are riding, so I don't risk him running out. I use the Service History app on my Zumo 590 so everything's immediately there, and since the pandemic ended I've not been ridfing more than 9,300/year so it's an annual date in Jan or Feb.