This dosent make any sense, 49.3 mpg?

[The Big Red One]

For refrence, my daily commute in my CDI mercedes:
Morning avg 39mpg
evening avg 38mpg

(the above was to show that its not just a downhill rids as the mpg's on the morning and eveing are about the same)

In my old bike (2001 ZX6R) I got at best 44mpg.


Well on my first commute on the bike, the bike guage was showing over 49mpg? Is this possibile?  Yes, I was going about 70-75mph 3800-4000K rpm.   I just cant imagine that this bike, over 2x the size of my last one gets better mileage at cruising speeds.   Am I nuts?

Taking it easy just cruising the back roads with my wife I'm getting 50+  

And thats actual mileage. I'm keeping the revs down tho too....god I love big torque  

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[Relsek]

Did a road trip a couple of weeks ago from NW Arkansas to Memphis.  Rode with some cruisers who wanted to do the speed limit, ...............

That had to be brutal. I don't think I could do it. I would have to tell them that I would meet up with them somewhere. I can't stand going slow.