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I report, 261.7 miles, coasted up to the pump, added 5.85 gallons then road on! Most of that mileage was at 75-80 mph.

Computer said I had 3 miles to empty, it lied!

Regards, Paul

roadfool wrote:I report, 261.7 miles, coasted up to the pump, added 5.85 gallons then road on! Most of that mileage was at 75-80 mph.

Computer said I had 3 miles to empty, it lied!

Regards, Paul

I just did 244 miles showing 69 miles to empty. Fill up was 5.4 gallons. Did not see a low fuel light and could not ever have made that 69 miles!

Last evening coming home from a couple hr ride, at 318klm it died 2klm from the nearest gas station with the computer telling me that I had 67klm to go. Based on my 07 r1200r this would have been just right. Also my fuel light came on about 5klm before I ran out.
BMW you suck ass for making a middle age and overweight man push a bike for 2.3klm.

Oh Yea, I put in 21.68 liters, what ever that is in gallon's. That's just about 200 miles. That's about 7 ltrs to 100klm or about 37mpg... Not so great.

Dalmatino wrote:Oh Yea, I put in 21.68 liters, what ever that is in gallon's.

That's 5.72 gallons here in the colonies. Yeah, you really did run out. But I bet if you had leaned the bike left as far as you could, you would have got enough over to the fuel pump to ride that 2 km.

Dalmatino wrote:Last evening ....
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BMW you suck ass for making a middle age and overweight man push a bike for 2.3klm.
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Consider it therapy!

Regards, Paul

I deliberately ran my 2011 R1200R empty today. With the MPG feature indicating 47 MPG the bike started to lose power at 226 miles. I didn't try to wiggle any extra distance out of the bike by tilting or shaking it as I had a gallon of gas in my saddlebag. I didn't measure the capacity as I haven't topped up the tank yet. I am expecting a set of Clearwater lights next week and want the tank nearly empty in case it has to be removed for the install.

Interestingly enough, the miles-to-empty feature had me runnig out at 209 miles, so on my bike, it's not optimistic.

I got 264 mi out of my R1200R yesterday. If I had been keeping up with the mileage I would have been afraid. I filled it with 5.1 gals on the side stand.

If you can fill in cca.5gal or so you are running prety much low with gas,probably on fumes.

Steve H.

Yep, I was too preoccupied with being lost in Asheville N.C.to be properly scared.

Anyname wrote:Interestingly enough, the miles-to-empty feature had me runnig out at 209 miles, so on my bike, it's not optimistic.

Unless the bike has been tested-to-empty several times with similar results, I would not presume that the OBC will always generate the same distance-to-empty figure.

You guys are incredible and obviously have bigger b---'s than me! I would only try that if I had a gallon can strapped to the back.

I'm not extremely familiar with the 1200r as mine is an 1150 but I think 5.4 gal is the listed capacity on mine and about 4.5 is all you can really get to.

There must be a saying about a wise man (or a fool) and the OBC reading. I presumed nothing. I guess I got lucky. Praise God.

Today my bike started coughing on acceleration and on uphills after about 240 miles, though the OBC did not yet say I was under 40 miles from dry. I pulled over and put in 5.8 gallons, at around 247 miles. Another 40 miles? I don't think so!!!

When my bike was new, miles to empty was right on. As it got older, The gauge started reading fuller and fuller. Then it started reading 1/2 tank when it was empty. then it went all Whaco. Full, empty, 1/2 what ever it felt like about 2 weeks ago.

Its almost a year old and has 20,000 miles on it.

Gauge says empty all the time and the low fuel light is on even after I fill it. Still under warranty so it needs to be fixed.

I have run out at 260 miles (planned with extra gas on bike) and 250 miles unexpected but only because there was no fuel in the town I though had some.

If its my biggest problem with this bike, I will just smile and deal with it. Its not like the FD went out.

David

dbrick wrote:

Anyname wrote:Interestingly enough, the miles-to-empty feature had me runnig out at 209 miles, so on my bike, it's not optimistic.

Unless the bike has been tested-to-empty several times with similar results, I would not presume that the OBC will always generate the same distance-to-empty figure.

Did that when it was new, rode the bike with spare gas. Miles to empty was 0 when it sputtered.
This summer it ran out with 20 miles to go. Trip meter was at 250 miles, so I knew I was out. I can't blame that one on BMW. It was my own screw up.

OBC only knows what the gauge (fuel strip) tells it.

David

I never use that function of my computer. I leave it on temperature. When the light goes on or when the little bars get down to two or three I start looking for gas.

On '09 R1200R, the MTE was dead on. One 300 mile tank, the MTE said 9 miles and it took 5.7+ gal (Natchez Trace traveling at the speed limit)
On my barely broken in '13 R1200R, it said 17 to go when it sputtered and died - fortunately just before a downhill to the exit ramp with a gas station near the bottom. Guess I will be a bit more proactive.
I did have a CalSci screen on the '09 and the '13 is currently naked (and I may leave it that way at least until the leaves fall - air flow is much better with the new instrument pod.

Altitude, headwind and speed have an effect on mpg. I was empty on the road in Colorado with 170 miles on the trip meter. State Highway patrol bailed me out with 2 gallons of free gas!
George, Mount Joy, Pa

Today, at 248 miles, my bike coughed on acceleration. I wheeled into a gas station and checked the OBC: it said I had 80 miles to go, and the red light was not on yet. Being only 8 miles from home (and a nearby gas station) I hit the freeway. A mile or so later I began to lose power, even at a steady 55. As I entered the onramp the bike died. I swerved hard a few times, stood up on the pegs and bounced hard, and the engine started again as I right turned through the (thankfully) green light; the gas station was just ahead on the left, and I accelerated toward it. The bike coughed and died definitively! Luckily I was able to coast across the double-yellow and through a gap in ongoing traffic, and I performed a dead-stick landing at the pump, bone dry. The bike took 5.901 gallons on the side stand to the automatic shutoff. I think that's (a) a record for me, (b) a warning to not be so stupid, and (c) an indication that my second fuel strip is giving up the ghost. Back to using just the tripmeter!

Fueling up at 180-200mls from last fuel up.Using trip odometer No.1 zeroing down at fuel up.Driving stile let's to say avarege.Avarage fuel consumption is 4.5 liters=1.2gall./100kms(62mls).I do not care abouth fuel strips/warning light.Fueling up approx.15 liters(cca 4 gallons).I am 5'6"tall-or short-73Kgs(165lbs)heavi or light.Trip odometer makes a good sense for me.Never run out of fuel,not even close to it.
Steve H.