I filled up my gas tank to find out what the fuel mileage was on the last leg of my ride this weekend.
I left my house last Friday and rode my G5 from Phoenix to Flagstaff, Arizona to do some work on my sons house and rode back on Monday (when the highway traffic from Northern Arizona is light).
I normally ride without a windshield but for this trip, I reinstalled it. There were more than one Kamikaze bugs that tried to take me out on the trip and their remains are now battle trophy's, still stuck to the Plexiglas which makes my decision to install it seem wise.
The first 90 mile leg of the trip took me from 1200 feet elevation to 5000 feet elevation in Payson, Arizona where I refilled the tank. This 90 mile leg of the trip has several 6 to 7 percent mountain grades and in places keeping the bike above 55 mph was asking a lot of it but for most of the riding I was riding at a nice 62-67 mph.
The bike got 63.94 MPG ( miles per (US) gallon).
From Payson, I rode thru Pine, Strawberry, Clints Well, Mormon Lake, Lake Mary and ended up in Flagstaff. This 102 mile leg of the trip took me from Payson's 5000 feet to 6900 feet elevation and then back down I-17 about 10 miles to my sons house where I took the picture below.
All of this leg of the trip is riding on a moderately twisty paved 2 lane highway thru a heavy Ponderosa Pine forest.
The bike got 79 MPG thru this stretch of the trip.
Coming back, from Flagstaff to Payson netted me almost the same fuel mileage at 78.2 MPG.
From Payson to Phoenix (which included about 20 miles of city riding) the bike got 83.33 MPG.
It was a great ride up and back with the daytime temperatures in the low 80 degree F in the lower desert, juniper areas and with the high elevations in the low 50's (degree F). The only thing that wasn't perfect was after sitting for 2 days without running and with the low temperatures at night being around 26 degrees F, the bike wasn't too sure it wanted to start on Monday morning.
After trying twice with the electric starter I let it sit for 10 minutes and then decided to actually use the "Manual bi-Starter" lever. I have never had to use this in Phoenix but I must admit that with it fully applied, the next bump of the electric starter resulted in an instant start.
All in all, an excellent trip!
Not a drop of oil used, no problems of any kind and a total fuel cost for the 382 mile journey being $17.75 I'm a happy RE rider!