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What have you done on your bike today?
- Thread starter The GOAT
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Was humming & hahing about going out for a ride today. The weather was a bit mehhh but I’m glad I did, twas good for the soul & the mind, even if it did rain at times. I didn’t take any photos though 
He was heeing and hawing.humming & hawingor were you humming and laughing
He's a country bumpkin.
What are those F800s like to ride? Are they boring or can you have some fun on them? I know they're capable of mega mileages. Looking at your winter adventures I do like the idea of a go-anywhere winter bike so I can ride all year round and they can be had for little money.
I love mine, you don’t feel like you have to race anywhere and you know when you’re doing 80, which for me is a good thing. If you get one you don’t want the ‘Adventure’, it comes with a fat rear end to accommodate the bigger fuel tank. Don’t go for one earlier than 2013, they got an updated stator, fatter forks and some other tweeks. Some people say they vibrate a bit too much at motorway cruising speeds, but that is fixed with a 17 tooth front sprocket (16 standard). I’ve achieved 77mpg in ideal conditions.
Here, have another picccy of it. In case you forgot what it looks like…
Try a Rocket 3. I get more mpg out of my Landrover. Quite literally. The Freelander 2 - which is in permanent 4WD averages about 36 mpg, and that includes daily off-road use which drops mpg considerably. On steady dual carriageway driving I'll get 40 mpg. The Rocket returns about 34. I could get it up to 40 + mpg if I rode everywhere at 52 mph but then what would have been the point of buying it?77 MPG
I can’t even get that with the engine off, coasting downhills
And TBF the Rocket has a bigger engine than the Landrover, which is only a 2.2 litre...
I often see just shy of 50mpg on a run in my diesel Jag which weighs probably 1.9 tons. I’ve never reached that on my Supersport that weighs a tenth of the car.
Shhh! They'll have us banned.
Big engine, huge torque, low-drag tyres, good aerodynamics, drives at normal road speeds on a very light throttle without really trying = great economy. Smaller engine revved and ragged and fuel disappears like there was a hole in the tank.
Before I moved north and was travelling the length of the country regularly looking for a house, I once had to hire a car as my van had thrown an injector. I got a little Toyota Aygo as it was cheap and I was told it only sipped fuel. It does if you drive round the local bypass at 40 mph. Six hours up the motorway with your foot buried in the carpet to keep to 70 and it used more fuel than my diesel van. And it was tinny and plasticky and bloody uncomfortable.
I think I'd easily get 50 mpg out of my Freelander if it wasn't shaped like a brick with big tyres and permanent 4WD.
That's the cruel trick played by the third law of thermo-dynamics. For best economy you have to buy big but drive small.You're not driving the Jaaaag right
It's like losing weight by buying a cream cake but only sniffing it.
You're not driving the Jaaaag right
Yeah, M6 south, only way to drive is like Miss Daisy.
Speed Triple 1200 - 40 miles range left, electric fuel cap wouldn’t release at Penrith, trying to nurse it back as close to home before it ran out of fuel. Lift and coast, never above mid 50s, making myself as small and aerodynamic as possible no matter how daft that looked…mid ti high 40s. I got to within about 15 miles but it ran out.
Flat battery in key fob? I hate electric fuel caps, steering locks etc. Hate keyless full stop come to that. The Rocket is keyless ignition. Sort of. You have to point the key at the bike and press the T logo to wake the fob up. What the point of that is I don't know, but at least it has a manual filler cap. Steering lock is electric and I don't trust it. Fortunately a Rocket 3 isn't all that easy to pinch without a crane.
Utterly pointless - the fob is as big as a key anyway.
It was a faulty cap. I pushed it off the A6 at Bentham into a pub car park and went in and asked to borrow their computer ti access the online Triumph manual (I had it on my phone, but the pdf pages wouod open for a second, then close…plus I didn’t have my reading glasses as I’d only intended going for a quick blast). Using the on board Allen key you undo the 6 bolts and carefully lift the cap.
A very nice lady working in her garden opposite where it had conked out and shouted across if I needed petrol. I went to her house and took her up on it - her husband had a Kawasaki 900 retro.
15 minutes after fluttering out I was back on my way.
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