Now that these bikes have been out for a couple years, I'd like to hear what your getting for gas mileage. The KLX would make a fine commuter for me, since I ride about 7.5 miles each way to work on some nice twistw backroads with speeds of 35-50 mph tops.No freeways. Then I'd have a commuter with some real off road potential again. I had a 65 mile freeway commute for many years and decided it was a bit much for my 2001 KLR250, so I traded for a KLR650.The 650 is a great street bike/commuter and I'm getting 52-56 mpg, but its a handfull in the trails.

Jon in Puyallup, Wa. USA

 

I'm runnning with the free mods and drilled baffle and get around 50-55 mpg on the street.

 

I ride only for fun (no commuting) and typically keep the revsbetween 4k-8k rpm. Last on road (and dirt road) tank was right at 50mpg, but I hit reserve at around 70 miles if doing any serious off-road stuff. Bike is stock except for HMF slip-onmufflerand dynojet kit.

 

My bike is straight stock with the exception of a 48t rear sprocket. I got 71mpg todayonsome pavedback country roadswith a few gravelsections mixed in. I didn't do any offroad stuffbut I'm usually closer to 50mpg when I do.

 

When bone stock i was getting 85 miles on 1.327 gallons (1 time another 1.321 gal.).....which = 64.05 mpg...and that was stock and not running it hard but not babying it.I have yet to figure since i put the larger fuel tank on and the pipe and rejet but i'd imagine not to far off.

 

A few weeks back we got lost on the trails... (even with GPS, if you get lost, all the GPS does is tell you in which direction you SHOULD be going....[:@])

We ended up finding some trails that connected back to the direction we wanted to go in, but i was running on fumes for sure. Fortunately I fully filled up the tank to the brim before we took off for the ride!!

Witha full stock tank I ran 66 miles. Mybike has the K/Nair filter, #40 pilot and #130 maincarb jets and a big gun exhaust so its not stock airflow/gasflow, butrather quite a bit more flow...

COMMON CLARK TANKS!!!!!!!!!

 

I'm usually seeing 50-60mpg. If I rode conservatively at35-45mph with the stock gearing,I'd imagine around 70mpg is possible.

 

With the mods in my sig, got about 42 mpg today running mostly in 2nd and 3rd ! Better than I thought it would get. Street over 50.

 

My commute is 2 miles, mostly through a residential area where the posted speed limit is 25. I have 4 stop signs, 1 stoplight, 3 speed bumps, and a couple of hundred yards where the speed limit is 40.

In stock form, I was getting 70mpg. Since the mods, I am getting 50mpg. Something strange happened after the mods that I cannot fully explain. Somehow the carb and exhaust work affected the twist of the throttle. My commute takes way less time than it used to. I often find that my bike is still accelerating when it is time to stop, and the nose dives hard while braking. I used to gently cross over the speed bumps, but I find myself catching air now. My tach used to routinely top out at about 5k during my commute, it is often at 8-9k now. There is probably some correlation there to the drop inmileage, but I don't think I'll try to figure out what it is. I'm having too much fun!

 

Sorry, forgot to calculate the MPG out.. that was the question... 50 MPG with the jetting as is above.