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04/11/2006: "Fuel Consumption"

Having filled the van up last night, I've just worked out the approx fuel consumption for the last tank, which came out as a slightly frightening 23mpg.

This took me by surprise a bit, since the last time I really paid attention to it was 5 years ago, when I was commuting from Birmingham to Malvern (about 37 miles and mostly motorway). Doing that trip I got somewhere between 28 and 32, depending on how fast I drove. I even got 400 miles out of a tank once. It just about makes it to 300 now.

What I'm trying to work out is whether this is in part down to it running a bit worse (it's about 50,000 miles older than at the end of my year in Malvern) or it is just an indication of how inefficient my current commute (12 miles into Nottingham) is - it just about gets warm in time to sit in traffic.

Whatever the cause is, I'm going to try and avoid using it to come into work as much as possible. I'm on the GS400 today, which is also not running that well, but I would guess is still above 40mpg - I'll see when I next fill it up. Hopefully I'll be able to get the CG125 back together and through MOT in the near future as well - you are hard pushed to get less than 80mpg out of that one!

We spent the weekend before last in Birmingham, which gave an opportunity to get the ZZR1100 in bits. Unfortunately I've been a bit lazy about writing this up, so the build diary is a bit out of date.

Last weekend Sarah's dad and brother came up and we went to watch the British Superbike round at Donington. Top weekend of action, although it was very very cold when it started sleeting during the first Superbike race!

Looking forward to a four day weekend this week!