Re: Getting good mileage?

Below are the answers:

**What is your claimed mileage?**
City: 30 kmpl. Highways: 38 kmpl.

1. What fuel do you use? Standard or high octane?
standard

2. What comes first? Your service day or your kilometers?
service day
1.680km
2.1850km
3.3650km
4.4600km

3. Any fuel additives?
None.

4. What tyre air? Nitrogen or regular? Pressure recommended by manufacturer or something else?
Normal air. 28 and 33 PSI at front and rear respectively.

5. When do you refuel? Once the tank is empty or halfway? Or do you always run on low fuel?
Whenever the 'F-' starts blinking
blinking.

6. Preferred refuel timing. Day, night or no preference?
Heard that the fuel density is max early morning/cold temp, but I usually fill up at night.

7. Do you follow engine warm up rule? Or start and move?
Yes. 30 secs of warming up before the first ride of the day. Then run it sanely for the next 500metres. Other times, no warm-up

8. When did you do your first service? at 1000kms or end of 1st month?
680 kms.

9. Did you follow manufacturer break-in pattern? Or Motoman? Or your own? If own, what was it?
took it slow for the first 300kms then gradually increased shift point to 6k, 7k rpm..,run in ended at 800km

10. Did you always get the mileage your claimed? Or was is improved later? How many kilometers/months/services later?
Yes. Best was on first fuel up-43kmpl, then on its been a downward spiral.

11. At what RPM do you usually shift? If you shift at say 5000rpm, but you know you wont go beyond that speed, do you shift at 5000rpm and let the revs lower or stay at 5000 rpm without shifting?
Try to stay above 5k rpm on highways, as there's very low torque below that. In city, don't bother too much, usually allow it to come to 2.5k rpm.

12. Generally ,do you quickly accelerate to your shift revs or slowly get there?
Depends on the mood, shift point- first gear @ 6k rpm, 2nd gear @ 8k rpm. Only the first 3 gears are used in city.
Highways runs -maintain 100-120kmph, gear changes at 7.5k rpm.

13. What's the general weight that comes on the bike? Your weight + pillion maybe + bags etc.
75 kgs.

14. Where is your riding place? Moderate traffic, Heavy traffic, or open highway?
30% moderate city traffic , 70% highways.

15. What is your maintained riding speed?
City: 40-50 kmph. Highways: 100-120 kmph.

16. Heavy use of brakes? do you panic brake or brake at the last minute often? or come to a slow stop?
Slow stops in city, highways involve 70% Heavy braking so as to keep my instincts sharp, use both front and rear 95% of the time.

17. Anything out of the box that you think help.
Lube the chain every 500kms. Don't follow the above riding practices of mine.

I don't get to ride my bike that often, so enjoy it to the best when I do ride.
Tappets adjusted twice in first 3000km, svc screwed it first time. Svc Says tappets became loose because of high revvin.
The current FE is not bothering me much because of low riding.Highway FE is a decent 38kmpl consistently for the last 3 500km highway runs, I am usually forced rev the bike as I need to keep pace with a bunch of dukes.

Re: Getting good mileage?

**What is your claimed mileage?**
City: low to mid 30's. Highways: n/a.
1. What fuel do you use? Standard or high octane?
standard
2. What comes first? Your service day or your kilometers?
Kms
3. Any fuel additives?
Whats that for?
4. What tyre air? Nitrogen or regular? Pressure recommended by manufacturer or something else?
Air at 26-30 front and 31-35 psi rear depending on weather, surface conditions and riding.
5. When do you refuel? Once the tank is empty or halfway? Or do you always run on low fuel?
Whenever i feel like it.
6. Preferred refuel timing. Day, night or no preference?
Anytime
7. Do you follow engine warm up rule? Or start and move?
~45 secs of warm up followed by gradually increasing pace. Around 5km of cool down at moderate pace.
8. When did you do your first service? at 1000kms or end of 1st month?
980 kms.
9. Did you follow manufacturer break-in pattern? Or Motoman? Or your own? If own, what was it?
Manufacturer break-in. Infact even softer than that, didn't want to hurt my bike :-P (yeah i didn't know sh*t back then)
10. Did you always get the mileage your claimed? Or was is improved later? How many kilometers/months/services later?
Honestly i never cared for mileage. But if there's a sudden drop in mileage that would be cause for concern.
11. At what RPM do you usually shift? If you shift at say 5000rpm, but you know you wont go beyond that speed, do you shift at 5000rpm and let the revs lower or stay at 5000 rpm without shifting?
Usually b/w 7-9k
12. Generally ,do you quickly accelerate to your shift revs or slowly get there?
Brisk but not hard
13. What's the general weight that comes on the bike? Your weight + pillion maybe + bags etc.
74 kgs with full gear.
14. Where is your riding place? Moderate traffic, Heavy traffic, or open highway?
100% moderate city traffic
15. What is your maintained riding speed?
80-120 kmph on the straights. Corners: fastest: 92 kmph, slowest: 28 kmph (u-turn), typical: 45-70 kmph (all speedo indicated)
16. Heavy use of brakes? do you panic brake or brake at the last minute often? or come to a slow stop?
The stops are at red-lights usually (unless stuck in traffic) with 90-100% braking, almost all front. Brakes start to fade after about 1/2 hrs riding and by 45 mins i am also using the rear hard just to get the thing to stop. :-P
17. Anything out of the box that you think help.
Stop worrying about saving every drop of fuel, that's just silly. Learn to ride the bike within the power band (and within your limits!).

Re: Yamaha YZF-R15 version 2.0

Is there any modification possible to lower the pillion seat height of r15 v2.
as there is no use of pillion seat in v2. Generally I drive with pillion.
I want to buy new r15 as v1 is not available new.
I m keen in yamaha r15.
So please suggest me the best.


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Re: Yamaha YZF-R15 version 2.0

No way to do that.

You would have to build the whole rear portion to do that.

Re: Getting good mileage?

really mate, 100% riding in city ? you never went out into the open highways or to any nearby mountainous areas or something ? :-)

and wtf dude, cornering at 92kmph in some city road ? :P

you know if you go out of the city into some highway or something that has some decent empty corners somewhere, you might find yourself at some kickass corners where you can corner at 100/110+ with pretty deep lean. go out mate :-)


oh the damn :P. you might have some problem there because i dont think this is a usual occurrence in R15s in general and doesnt happen in my bike either (so far, thankfully) and i too use only the front pretty much all the time and my rides typically involve a bunch of fairly hard braking and occassionally some real hard braking (either by choice for fun or practice or by necessity).

Re: Getting good mileage?

I been lucky i think, there are a bunch of nice corners near my place where i been training (yes that's the word) for the past 1.5 years. Riding on almost the same set of roads everyday. What a fantastic experince its been! The 92kmph corner is particularly exiciting. It starts with a 300 m steep uphill flyover ramp followed by a small crest then a right downhilll, a brief squirt on the short bumpy downhill straight (still carrying some lean), then a blind right at 92kmph immediately followed by a quick left straight into merging traffic. Love that particular section!
I don't why but i hate highways. The problem is that on a highway with straight empty roads, any idiot can go fast and that's a problem i don't have in the city. To go faster than me just having balls isn't enough, someone will need real skills and luckily we don't seem to have that in Delhi (certainly i haven't come across one worthy of my respect in 2+ years of riding here). :-P

Re: Getting good mileage?

nice and empty during the day? lucky indeed mate. i got just one such patch of road nearby. about 6/7 kms from my place on an outback into some nearby villages/countryside, there's a real nice 70-80kmph S section which has fortunately remained empty more often than not whenever i have gone there for a little cornering..it's also a bit scary (and hence requiring additional attention from myself about not screwing up) because on both sides of that S section the land drops gradually downhill about 3 metres where usually some shallow stagnant water is always pooled up even in dry summer with cows and buffalos usually chilling out in them, so if i ever crash there me and my bike will be joining 'em. :P

that's totally true indeed. but of course i didnt mean to say that you should go out of the city onto the highways for the boring straights..the point was that those highways might lead you to some faraway empty corners either in some nearby mountainous regions or otherwise..for example, one of my favorite riding roads happens to be a small part of the NH76 which is one of the highways that cross through allahabad.. when i am about 70 kms from my home on that highway a small hilly area comes that provides me a couple of asskicking medium-sized S sections and a couple of 100/110+ (deep lean) sweepers and a few other decent corners..this part is usually very empty..on the way to that place there appear some real good corners (tight as well as sweepers) on the way as well, a handful of them remaining usually empty for attempting serious cornering but on some others many times i dont get to attempt any serious undisturbed (by traffic or people or animals) cornering as they are not usually so empty (towns and such nearby)..i meant things like these, that may appear before you at distant highways, when i suggested going out of delhi city and perhaps to some distant highway sections or mountainous regions. :-)

challenge accepted gladly :-D..just wait till i ever go to delhi on my bike :P i seem to believe the same about myself :P

on the note of highway straights, i'd admit though i still enjoy riding on the nearby ones here every now and again because it's usually not that empty and so i get to overtake real fast a bunch of other vehicles not in a straight line which usually requires a bit of non-trivial (and hence, non-boring) riding (and consequently the frequent hard accelerations feel lovely). and then sometimes i just need to feel the open air and relatively empty roads (even if straights) away from the city and feel a bit of open air, corners or not..

Re: Getting good mileage?

Sorry mate too late for that, I have given up riding for the moment. BTW, I've sold my R15. I am now going through the process of de-addiction. :-P



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Re: Yamaha YZF-R15 version 2.0

Hi guys I've did a DIY post on how to install a mobile charger on R15 that can double up as some power socket for other equipments like CFL lamps too..

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Re: Getting good mileage?

oh, you already sold it :\ i hope you were sad about it for at least half a day if you are a human at all :P

Re: Getting good mileage?

Yup, I was sad for exactly half a day.


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Re: Yamaha YZF-R15 version 2.0

The manufacturer recommended air pressure to our bikes is 28 psi on front and 33 psi on the rear, measured on cold tyres. Since this is for the cold tyres, I was filling 2 psi extra than the recommended pressure on each tyres. Cause I believe that after few km of riding the tyres would get hot and sticky. To compensate with the increased temperature, I have been filling 30 psi on front and 35 on the rear ever since day one. And my city's climate is too hot that even after 5 minutes of riding, the tyres would get very hot.

Is the above mentioned theory and practice of mine right?

Re: Yamaha YZF-R15 version 2.0

if you are filling during daytime and the tyres are done a few km's already then 2-3 psi above recommended is just fine..

Yamaha YZF-R15 version 2.0

Yes. In the summer I would use 2 psi extra, otherwise the tire would get too hot (especially the rear) and a silvery white band would form on the edges of the tire (I think that's the oils/waxes coming out of the tire).


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Re: Yamaha YZF-R15 version 2.0

In my city, its always summer. :-p