I need to double check to see if the dashboard electronics are accurate, but the instruments says about 58mpg for my bike. I'm reasonably sure it depends on the rider...
I always read bike reviews with a grain of salt. Plenty of reviewers are used to determining the value of a bike by how fast it will go around a racetrack, and I reckon they must have been flogging the begeezuz out of the TR650 during that review to get such poor fuel economy. I've found in the 1000km I've ridden my Terra that the consumption appears to be about 3% pesimistic (that is the dash shows I've consumed 12.4 litres but I only refill 12.1 litres). I have found the same % error on 3 tanks of fuel. My consumption has been pretty consistent regardless what type of riding I'm doing, 100kph hwy riding or just tootling along down dirt roads. I've been getting between 58-63mpg (and I'm no lightweight), probably a bit worse than that when I hit the twisties on the sealed roads. A rider half my weight would get consumption figures much better than that.
Thanks for that. Yesterday for the very first time I filled the tank and made note of the milage. Appreciate your input!
