SHUMBA
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Well, ya, there's no free lunch.My riding buddy is Chris, he is riding a 1290 ktm . Very fast rider. Heard him bang the rev limiter a few times . interesting note about gas milage , I was getting almost 47 mpg riding my very conservative way . his KtM got 34 mpg , but he was blasting around and was rarely under the speed limit.
All motorcycles or cars or airplanes will consume more fuel at higher speeds due to increased drag and the power required to sustain the higher speeds.
It's exponential. Hmmm...let me recall, drag increases as the square root of the speed, and the power (fuel) required increases as a cube, or the cube of the speed.
Someone help me out here, as I think I got the very last part poorly worded.
Case in point. My Tenere shows a fuel burn of 4.5 litres per 100 kilometers at a
speed of 110 kph. When I increase my speed to 160 kph or 100 mph the fuel burn increases greatly to 7.8 litres per 100 kilometers. Okay for my great riders and friends to the south, same thing in miles per gallon.
SHUMBA
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