BASSA vs JACKAL

[nsmith]

So I'm working on this Jackal. Test ride 111 miles later it gets 48.7mpg. My Bassa gets 42.5mpg. That's some difference.
Jackal 2000 20k miles factory intake and straight pipe exhaust, narrow hard bags.
Bassa 2000 64k miles air filter pods, factory exhaust, classic windshield.
Question is why 6 mpg difference? any thoughts?

[oldbike54]

 Likely most of that is due to the big windshield . My Jackal and Bassa both have Pacifica Aerofoils and bags , boyh get about 41 MPG .

 Dusty

[Rich A]

Different maps could have an effect.

Rich A

[Bpreynolds2]

So I'm working on this Jackal. Test ride 111 miles later it gets 48.7mpg. My Bassa gets 42.5mpg. That's some difference.
Jackal 2000 20k miles factory intake and straight pipe exhaust, narrow hard bags.
Bassa 2000 64k miles air filter pods, factory exhaust, classic windshield.
Question is why 6 mpg difference? any thoughts?

Either damn way that's way better than I ever got on any of my previous 1100 Calis - usually 40 on the highway and 35 in town on a good day.   

[Lannis]

Really hard to measure fuel mileage accurately in only 111 miles ... unless you've got a graduated cylinder, etc, there are several variables that could have you off by quite a bit .... ?

Lannis

[Texas Turnip]

Poor testing with just results.
Proper test you would need.
! Same road surface.
2. Same wind direction
3. Temperature the same.
4. Barometric pressure.
5. tire pressure
6. Tire tread design.
7. Both bikes at same speed and rpm?
8 Axle bolts same torque?
9. Wheel bearing equally lubed?
Way too many factors to list on a 111 mile uncontrolled test.

Tex

[PeteS]

Do both bike have the 15M computer or does the Jackal have a P8? I thought it they didn't get a 15M until the Stones.

Pete

[oldbike54]

Do both bike have the 15M computer or does the Jackal have a P8? I thought it they didn't get a 15M until the Stones.

Pete

 Both are 15M equipped .

 Dusty

[s1120]

Poor testing with just results.
Proper test you would need.
! Same road surface.
2. Same wind direction
3. Temperature the same.
4. Barometric pressure.
5. tire pressure
6. Tire tread design.
7. Both bikes at same speed and rpm?
8 Axle bolts same torque?
9. Wheel bearing equally lubed?
Way too many factors to list on a 111 mile uncontrolled test.

Tex

I always liked to do readings over a matter of months.. Helps wash out the variables of different roads, weather, and situations.

I bet its a combo of the windshield, and how the mapping is working with the engine mods. Knowing how bad my Stone ran with opened up exhausts, I bet the higher MPG bike is much leaner.

[Bpreynolds2]

Both are 15M equipped .

 Dusty

There was a computer in the 4 Calis I owned, are you effing kidding me??  I thought it was a hamster who ran until the plastic gears in the odo broke. 

[oldbike54]

There was a computer in the 4 Calis I owned, are you effing kidding me??  I thought it was a hamster who ran until the plastic gears in the odo broke. 

 Being computer equipped doesn't necessarily mean there isn't Hamster augmentation .

 Dusty

[Bpreynolds2]

Being computer equipped doesn't necessarily mean there isn't Hamster augmentation .

 Dusty

 

[s1120]

Being computer equipped doesn't necessarily mean there isn't Hamster augmentation .

 Dusty

CRHP.  Its a new Guzzi control system. Computer regulated Hamster propulsion.

[oldbike54]

  

 Dusty

[Moparnut72]

You can pretty much blame it on the windshield.  My experience through the years with naked and windshield equipped bikes.
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