VTX 1300 and 1800 gas milage

 Can someone please post what they get for gas milage on the 2 VTX engine
sizes?  I'm sure that there are minor variations between the models, and
a larger variation between the 1300 and 1800.  Just curious, thinking
about getting one after being off my Ninja for a few years and JONESING
badly to get a bike again.

Morgan

 On Mon, 22 May 2006 13:52:48 GMT, Morgan Buchanan said:


Gas mileage? The smile that the 1800 will put on your face is
priceless.

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 Venture Rider wrote:

Hah i agree! Even though the vtx 1800 has an engine that can power a
honda sedan, it still gets a lot more MPG. But to be on a bike is worth
any (fuel) price.

 Mr Hanky Poo wrote:

At 107 horsepower, it's just about equal to the new little Honda Fit
sub-subcompact.  Not as powerful as a Civic.  And if it can deliver 45 mpg,
it will be about the equal of a Fit there, too.

Lots of folks figure that just because it's got the displacement of a Miata
engine, it's got considerable power, but that's not necessarily true.  It
*does* have a lot of torque, which is needed for getting that 700+ pounds
moving in the first place, but it's horsepower that accelerates, not torque.
My little 600 cc daily driver exceeds the horsepower of a VTX1800 by a
considerable amount, with 1/3 the displacement, and just about exactly 1/2
the weight.

 

The transmission provides torque via the gearing.

Anyway, it's two different ways of saying the same thing.  Power is
the rate at which you increase kinetic energy.  Force provides
acceleration to mass.  You can chomp the numbers either way and get
the same answer.

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