TFI and Mileage

[blowndodge]

Yesterday Dave D and I took a nice 300 mile (for me) ride over two separate mountain ranges and beautiful meadows in Southern Cal's mid 70's fall weather. Rode with 4 other guys.

Last year I installed the Techlusion TFI like many others because my bike would ping on premium really bad in warm weather. I decided to tune it to run regular gas which I did.

Never had much of an "issue" other than the mileage went in the tank. My final settings, which I guess I forgot were 3:15, 6:30, 9,1

At this setting I could run regular gas. My city mileage went to 30 in the city and 35 or 36 on the highway. My low fuel light would start to glow anywhere from 125 to 140 miles into a tank of gas. After some "close calls" in almost running out of gas, yesterday I decided to tune the TFI to run premium without ping.

I went to gadget's site and saw that a 1500 Nomad with open air cleaner and V&H pipes was running much leaner settings than mine. I guess all bikes are different but mine needed to run much higher settings but then again I am running regular.

Before I took off yesterday I set the pots to 2:15, 3, 9, 1 gassed up with premium and took off. First tank was 42MPG and the last tank was 40MPG and this was with a big rear tire that is making the odometer read 3% slow, so I probably averaged 42. This while riding up and over 2 mountain ranges riding kind of quickly through the twisties! Dave had his Ultra keeping up just fine!

I now can go about 170 miles before the yellow light kicks on and have extended my tank's range about 25 miles. I think I'm going to leave it set for premium because of the near misses in running out of fuel!

Dave's Harley still gets better mileage. I gassed up a little over 160 miles with 4.004 gallons and Dave's ultra took 3.6!!! Must be nice Dave!! Our buddies we rode with on Victory motorcycles said riding to Laughlin they all got over 50MPG's....... Now MaKaw why is that?????

Anyway, you can get good mileage with the TFI if you want to run premium. Set for regular I can't see anyone riding in the city getting nothing but low MPG's