Two Wheels Better

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It's only when I'm home in OZ the past three years for a few weeks or a month that I can check my K100RS' mileage. On the Queensland to Victoria and back roadtrips, solo light and two-up loaded, I managed 5.5 to 6 per 100 kms, whilst caning it. Up in the Territory and Western Australia back in 2010 when I did my Ride Right Round, it dropped into the upper 4's per 100 since I was rolling smoothly, steadily and keeping it well under the then speed limit of 130 kph. I'd missed that a significant roadhouse had burnt to the ground and not been rebuilt the year previous and had to eke it out to Katherine following a roadtrain at 80-85 for an hour or more. The bike has K1100 150cc injectors and 35mm TBs with a Motad exhaust. But on average it's about 20 km per 1l/5 per hunnerd.
Interestingly enough, my much heavier and more powerful K1200GT Brick regularly manages up to 48 miles per US gallon. That's a bit better on average than the K100RS. The Motronic 2.2 has its tricks. This is the brain and loom I'll use on my Big Block K100, which weighs well over a hundred pounds less. I am keen to see what she'll return - not that I care too terribly much on that bike, power cruiser that she'll be.
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1970 R60/5, '77 R75/7-R100, '85 K100, '87 K75C, '87 K100RS, '93 K11-K12 Big Block, '93 K1100RS, '95 R100-Mystic, '96 K1100RS, '98 K1200RS, '00 K1200RS, '02 K1200RS, '03 K1200GT, '04 R1150R, '04 R1150RT, '05 K1200S, #1 '06 K1200R, #2 '06 K1200R(renovated), '07 K1200R, '09 K1300GT(refreshed), '13 R1200RT-P & 2022 S1000XR(sold)
All of life is a foreign country. - Jack Kerouac, author (1922 - 1969)