I wanted to know what the MPG is on a NINJA 250r motorcycle before the brake in period. I just recently bought a 2009 ninja 250r and the gas is not lasting me long. Im pretty sure this is normal but i wanted to know or hear it from someone else.
It's normal. Don't worry. You might get as low as 30 MPG but no lower. Everything is being seated and the side effect is loss of MPG. Around 1000 miles you should be able to get 60+ mpg
Motorcycles are less efficient when new, the engines are still bedding in, that is why you have a break-in period. They also come from the manufacturer with a lower grade of oil, this is to assist in the bedding in of the engine, when it comes time for the first service the amount of metal that comes out with the oil is quite amazing. In a perfect world engines would be built with perfectly matched parts – in the real world manufacturing is just not capable of mass-producing to such close tolerances. To improve your fuel consumption, ride in the lower end of the peak torque range – this means being in the optimum gear. To really improve it make sure you are not carrying useless weight, avoid braking as much as possible – there is no point in riding quickly up to a traffic light that you can see is red when you can reduce your revs and approach to time it for when the lights change, do not come back hard onto the throttle gently feed the revs – overcoming the inertia of starting from stationery uses a mass of fuel in comparison; instead of braking hard for a corner use observation to judge your speed and slow on the throttle and carry more speed through the corner – 250s are brilliant for this.
Honestly, the gas mileage shouldn't be a big enough difference to notice, honestly. What matters most is how hard you push the engine. If you're going 70 all the time, you'll get less gas than going 50. But you should actually be getting MORE mileage during the break-in period, because you should be being more gentle on the engine.
