Bike: TDR250 stock standard
Fuel ecconomy
I've been using the bike for a few days a week tripping to work, 22km journey, lane filtering was too attractive in peak hour and end of year it got pretty bad.
So I found I can get at best (so far) 85km from 7L if I ride the bike above 4-5Krpm but not above 6K rather than dogging it in a higher gears. I've also found I've used a lot less oil this way as well. It really does make sense with less throttle opening it should all go down in consumption, but I always though dogging it in a higher gear would be more efficient.
If I dog the thing, I was only getting 75km from almost 9L. If I behave at least a little leaving the lights it also make a difference.
Heading up Mt Glorious though, I barely get to 60km before I'm on reserve, but that is too expected
and totally worth it!Oils - Lots of opinions on this of course, but just my experience.
When I first got the bike all going I had some left over Shell VSX oil from MX days and it seemed pretty good. So when I ran out I bought another Litre, and it was bloody terrible. The blue haze is bad enough without bad oil making it worse.
So I've gone over to tried and tested Castrol TTS and there is a remarkable difference. Smoke is a lot less in general and it doesn't take as much to "clean it out" once the engine is warm and you get it on the pipe. On that note, I've found you really cannot do anything to "clean it out" until you get the temp up half way. You really shouldn't anyhow, and I wouldn't normally stress it until it's warm.
4L of TTS is $80 today at supercheap for their boxing day sale!
