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Re: [ST] July Rider



I read the article and was shocked by the poor mileage too. My low fuel light came on @ 218 miles today. When I filled up 10 miles later it took 4.2 gallons for ~54mpg. A couple of weeks ago on a long trip home from Wisconsin I averaged 56pmg. Maybe they road it near red line most of the time.

George
2002 Sapphire ST

At 10:08 PM 6/7/2005 , you wrote:
The July issue of Rider just appeared in my mailbox - There's a full test of the new ST. It's even on the cover! They seem to like the bike and think it's an improvement over the previous generation. A couple of surprising things though - They mention less wind protection then before and their test unit averaged only 36 mpg. This is a pretty big difference from my '01 - my low fuel light usually comes on around 190 - 200 miles, their '05 had the light coming on 115 and 140 miles. I guess the bumped up displacement and horsepower increase can account for some of that, but it still seems pretty low.

John in NJ
'01 BRG ST


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