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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: spanner on February 26, 2014, 06:38:02 AM
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As stated in the subject above Mathamatics and I are not friends :spank ... we rarely see eye to eye on anything other than the cost of a schooner of beer.
I am trying to work out a conversion from the KM's per Liter you people are talking on the forum into to liters per 100KM..... its so I can compare the car we have Vs. the impending STeed I am going to own.
sooooo ....... if you say you are getting 15 km's to the liter does that equate to 1.5 liters per 100 km's??
Not sure if that sounds right to me. :think1 :think1 ........... :fp god I hate Math!
please put me out of my miserey
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Don't worry - I had to use a conversion app on my phone to validate the formula. I didn't want to post a wrong.
Divide 100 by your 15 km/litre...
100/15 = 6.67 litres per 100km
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Spanner, you may find the thread below to be useful as well, as it discusses fuel range calculations. My ST1300 returns an average of 5.4 litres per hundred kilometers, over a wide range of conditions an speeds. and this is probably pretty typical.
http://ozstoc.com/index.php?topic=3070.msg31170#msg31170 (http://ozstoc.com/index.php?topic=3070.msg31170#msg31170)
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thank you thank you thank you
What was the app you used BigTed?
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No probs - it's "ConvertPad" by "Sunny Moon" - in the Android appstore.
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Spanner I use an excel spread sheet.
If you are familiar with them I would be happy to email you one with what ever figures you want it to show. Just insert distance and amount of fuel used. Can also use it to keep a running total of fuel costs
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I use this spread sheet, it can be adjusted to suit
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f9engrv3ldj7dzz/Bike%20fuel%202011.xls (https://www.dropbox.com/s/f9engrv3ldj7dzz/Bike%20fuel%202011.xls)
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I can't get that link to work :-[
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I use this spread sheet, it can be adjusted to suit
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f9engrv3ldj7dzz/Bike%20fuel%202011.xls (https://www.dropbox.com/s/f9engrv3ldj7dzz/Bike%20fuel%202011.xls)
Yer racking up the kays just commuting, Brock!
You use more petrol than my Missus in her weekly commute in the Camry.
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W.A.G.
Yeah I'd love to check out your excel spreadsheet.
Ill PM you my email.
Cheers
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I can't get that link to work :-[
Me neither Brock
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It works for me, the page is pretty plain, with a blue button to click on for download.
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Here is a new updated version, click on the link and download it.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53770433/Bike%20fuel.xls
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got it now.
Thanks
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Use the sheet labelled 2014 to enter the new data.
The sheet fuel 2014 will show all the calculations
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:rockon Brock. Like it a lot. :clap
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:-++ :-++ :-++ .... Glen and Brock ..... you guys are amazing! :clap :clap :thumbsup :thumb
:Chocies and :beer to both of you ...... now to conduct trials on which one I will use ...... :think1 :CB--
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Both L/100 km and km/L confuse me. I really only have a concept of fuel usgae if it's in miles per gallon.
5.5 L/100km
= 18.2 km/L
= 51 mpg - ah, that's not bad at all
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FYI........I've averaged 20.6kls per litre for the past 26,000kls, with almost all riding being done on country roads/highway. I don't find the ST a very suitable commute bike for riding around city streets, if I was 150mm taller, with longer legs I might feel differently, but it's not a bike I enjoy riding around town.
That doesn't mean I don't :KissBlow my :wht13 though.
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I really only have a concept of fuel usgae if it's in miles per gallon.
Old Steve,
Was that in US MPG or Imperial :p :p
My spread sheet gives you both/all, as well as averages, Max and min figures and Ks / $ :grin
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Brock,
I don't use US gallons and I don't use NPT. API and SAE standards only apply if there's no other alternative, DOT helmet classifications I'll go along with but that's the thin edge of the wedge.
I would like one day to ride up the east coast of the USA, across the top, and down the west coast, so I suppose I'll have to use miles/USgal if I do that. So:
5.5 L/100km
= 18.2 km/L
= 51 mpg - ah, that's not bad at all
and that's 42.5 miles/USgal
Here in tropical QLD that's close to $A0.09/km, in the USA that'd be $A0.06/km
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If you figured out the total cost per km for owning and riding the bike you'd think twice about going out on a day ride.
My ex-Police 2000 ST1100 that I paid $7840 for back in 2006 cost me cost $10.13 per day to own and operate.
Or 29.32 cents/km taking everything in account including proceeds from sale and PPE.
Obviously the longer you keep a bike and the further you ride it, the more these figures come down.
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Now Biggles.........how do you put a price on happiness! :grin