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cowboy Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 173	mpg 06/12/12 at 20:02:43 rode 115miles Saturday an got 63.19mpg not bad.
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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: mpg Reply #1 - 06/12/12 at 20:38:12 Used to average 70+ mpg commuting (2 lane country roads, 35 mph) when mine was mostly stock. Saw a highest of 85 mpg on a ride from Memphis area to a rally in Sturgis MS. Now lucky to break 30 mpg. 15" rise bars + 6'2" 230# rider = a really big sail.
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360k+ Serious Thumper Offline Savage heart of darkness Posts: 680 Cartersville, GA Gender:	Re: mpg Reply #2 - 06/13/12 at 18:24:06 I routinely get mid 60's mileage, completely stock. Wow! They have a Sturgis, MS? So you can honestly brag that you've been to Sturgis.
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Reply #3 - 06/13/12 at 18:30:30

WD wrote on 06/12/12 at 20:38:12:

Used to average 70+ mpg commuting (2 lane country roads, 35 mph) when mine was mostly stock. Saw a highest of 85 mpg on a ride from Memphis area to a rally in Sturgis MS.

Now lucky to break 30 mpg. 15" rise bars + 6'2" 230# rider = a really big sail. Grin

Now come on WD 35mph 70mpg Then you must have been going 25MPH to get 85 mpg How the heck long did it take you to get to Sturgis.

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Reply #4 - 06/13/12 at 19:54:52

360k+ wrote on 06/13/12 at 18:24:06:

I routinely get mid 60's mileage, completely stock.

Wow! They have a Sturgis, MS? So you can honestly brag that you've been to Sturgis. Cool

And we have a Sturgis Kentucky too! And there is a bike rally there called Little Sturgis!

By the way......I've put about 400 mies on my "new to me" 1996 LS560 and I'm getting around 62-65mpg running mostly state roads(55 mph)and interstate(65-75 mph). I won't complain!

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Dj12midnit Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline If you'r here and I'm here isn't this our time? Posts: 1036 Lynden Wa. Gender:	Re: mpg Reply #5 - 06/13/12 at 20:26:06 if you are getting that kind of millage then you need to go faster.
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Online Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5835 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: mpg Reply #6 - 06/13/12 at 23:03:11 Wow I might have to go to " STURGIS" 3 times now ! I have got 59.5 mpg but never 60 on the savage , Haven't rode the S-40 enough to know about it yet !
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runwyrlph Serious Thumper Offline Semper ubi sub ubi Posts: 846 pa Gender:	Re: mpg Reply #7 - 06/14/12 at 06:45:24 Dj12midnit wrote on 06/13/12 at 20:26:06: if you are getting that kind of millage then you need to go faster. hahahaha i count on 50-55 mpg. don't keep track regularly, but i ride the same route enough i know it's about that.
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Reply #8 - 06/14/12 at 21:41:35

Been to the big Sturgis thing too. They can keep it. Rode my 1938 Indian Chief. Had a factory 1928 Scout hillclimber in the gear truck that followed me. We may have stayed an hour, bunch of stick in the mud crybabies on Jap dirtbikes didn't want an antique on their playground. Don't get me started on the doctors, dentists and lawyers (weekend warriors) on their Evo bagger trailer queens.

The MS version was nice until the CMA weenies took over.

Haven't made the Kentucky one yet but it is on my list (unless it is "family friendly", tends to be too tame for my tastes).

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Wake51 Full Member Offline Murphy's Law Posts: 214 St. Louis Gender:	Re: mpg Reply #9 - 06/14/12 at 23:47:07 I get 55-60 MPG going about 60-70 MPH during a group ride. Can't argue with that kind of mileage! Sure your pals may get ticked when you pull off every 120 miles to fuel up... but they get even more ticked when they see the low price on the pump display...
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