OK. I want to know why we don't get better MPG. For that matter, why all motorcycles don't get better MPG.
Take for example a Toyoto Yaris. Curb weight 2290lbs, a 1.5 liter engine, and 29/35MPG.
Our Savages are under 400 pounds wet, with a 0.65 liter engine, and we get somewhere in the neighborhood of 55-60mpg stock. WHY?!
I realize that factory estimates of MPG don't factor in certain variables, and nowhere is that more apparent than on motorcycles; weight of the rider, flex of the right wrist, mods, etc., but a stock factory to stock factory comparrison still leaves us on the short end. I mean, the Yaris weighs six times the Savage, but only gets half the mileage. Put the opposite, the Savage weighs
one sixth the Yaris but only gets double the mileage. Shouldn't it be more????
I'm no engineer, so I appeal to you who know far more than I to help me understand this. (Especially when I can't get my wrist to behave and get only 45mpg.
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Thanks