How Far on a Tank of Gas

[wmh9680]

I have averaged about 34 mpgs on my 2014 rt ltd. I usually don't ride her too hard. Don't know why I don't get more. Just had monster fuel flash the ecu and it dropped to about 30 mpgs. Still experimenting with it though. Does it hurt the bike to run her dry? Thanks, Mike

 

[Peter Aawen]

......... Does it hurt the bike to run her dry? Thanks, Mike

Yes, yes it does!! You may be lucky & get away with only doing some minute damage that's barely if at all noticeable, but modern fuel injection systems rely on the fuel flowing thru them for both lubrication and cooling - let the fuel level in the tank get below a litre or 2 & you are compromising both of those fairly critical features!! That means you are risking if not guaranteeing microscopic & irreversible damage to the fuel pump, the injector system, & the injectors themselves - and if an over-heated fuel injector nozzle should happen to blow off the injector proper & drop little shards of metal into the cylinder as the engine is running, there goes your engine!! :shocked: Admittedly, the likelihood of that last one happening is pretty small, but it HAS & DOES occur every now & then, while the microscopic & irreversible damage throughout occurs waaaaayyy more often (pretty much always in fact!) so why risk it?!? :dontknow:

You know how much fuel goes into your tank, so give yourself a couple of litres leeway & apply your average mpg to the remaining quantity. If you want to work out your average milage, all you hafta do is Reset one of the 2 trip meters every time you fill up, then simply read off the service station pump how much gas its just taken to do whatever distance is shown on that trip meter; work out how many miles per gallon or kms per litre or litres per hundred km if that's what you prefer & there you are, an easy enough way to work out how far you should be able to go on a tank of gas! Do this fairly regularly, the more often you do, the better your resulting 'estimate of average fuel range' from a tank of gas will become over time, and the more reliably you can use 'most' of the gas in your tank without risking running dry or even just too low for the long term health & safety of your engine & injector system.... :thumbup:

And as this & all the other threads on 'how far on a tank of gas' should have shown you, YOUR milage & therefore how far YOU can go on a tank of gas is very likely to be somewhat different to what most others might get - YOU hafta work it out for YOUR Spyder, the way you ryde it, the roads you ryde on, the loads you carry, the ambient weather conditions, and all those other things peculiarly unique to you & your ryding, where you are etc, the variables that make anyone elses avg mpg pretty much worth little more than a vaguely educated WAG - sure, their avg will be a little more helpful than a Stupid Wild Arsed Guess, but unless they ride like you, at the same speeds & acceleration rate as you, effectively ryding with you, on the same roads & on the same days & at the same time as you, it's only gonna be A LITTLE better!!

 

[CA Railwhale]

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I usually go about two hundred miles between fill ups, I've only exceeded that once and went about two forty before the low fuel light came on. Unless I'm buzzing around town, I don't take chances and fill up at a quarter tank or so. Better safe than stranded on the side of the road.

 

[stmike 1800]

The wife and i went for are first real ride, when heading to North Bay it started to rain and turn COLD .For us North Bay is 300 km or 200 miles,had to fill up part way as we would not have made it . On the way back got 41.4 mpg Can ,that has to be the worst gas mileage i have got out of all the bikes i have owned. The bike does ride better than any bike i have owned ,and handles good ,and has never fell over ,that"s a bonus.