As you might guess from my last post, I've looked at a few motorcycle reviews recently, trying to find information about the CB500X.
One of the things I noticed was that all the magazine reviews mentioned fuel economy, and all of them said something along the lines of "Well, Honda says it should get upwards of 65mpg, but we only got about 50-55." Out of curiosity, I went to look at fuelly.com, which is a good source to find out what sort of fuel economy the sort of people who use fuelly get. The average there? Mid-60s.
That seemed kind of weird. Then I realized something... the people who use Fuelly are mostly pushing for better mileage. The people who write motorcycle reviews for modern motorcycle magazines mostly seem to want to ride sportbikes. They shift late and ride aggressively. No WONDER they're getting lower mileage than is normal. One of them even admitted it, which is what started me thinking.
There's not much point to this post, but I thought it was interesting how much of a difference riding style can apparently make.
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