Ducati Monster Forum

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to do some gasoline consumption comparison here..
Im in HK, this is a pic of the gas pump after I completely filled the tank, after 15 miles that the reserve light had gone off.


In this pic you can see:

-  255 HKD / 32.8 USD for full tank of gas
-  Full tank 15.65 liters / 4.13 gallons
-  16.5 HKD/2.12 USD  per Liter  or    62.37 HKD / 8.00 USD per gallon 

This full tank gives me 250 KMs / 155miles    in up and downhill hilly driving, until the gas light first goes of.

Mind you my monster is only a 400CC one.

(http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh504/vivianov/IMG_0329.jpg)

Damn that's expensive gas.
People here cry like babies about pricing and it's less then 1/2 of what you are paying

we get a bulk discount. it's kinda like wholesale, or sams club.

Yeah Gas prices in HK are much higher then the states...

but I see how this could turn political which i did not intend..

Im interested of how many litters/gallons you guys fill your tank with and how many kms/miles that tank gives you?


anybody care to share!?

get about 120 miles for something between 3-3.5 gal

When the fuel light goes off, the bikes get gas within 10-15 miles.  I try not to fill more than 3.5 gallons.  The M750 can make it 150, and the M900ie only about 125. 

I get about 40 miles/gallon on my 900 carb'd Monster and that is normal "fun" riding (not keeping the revs down for better gas mileage).


My 2003 620 fuel injected got about 48 miles/gallon.



Not trying to rub it in (too much), but it cost me $10 to fill up yesterday.

How many gallons?

I just filled up w/ premium yesterday and it was $3.85 USD a gallon. It's gone up about .30 in the last couple weeks around here

I'm lucky if I can go 100 miles before the light goes off and it takes 2.3-2.5 gallons typically.  After the light I am looking for a gas station within the first 10 miles.

 [thumbsup] I've just returned from a 2000 mile tour aound France. Keeping the revs below 4000, and using the top 2 gears as much as possible, my 1100 Evo got 62mpg! Good eh?

'98 M750

Routinely 190 miles before the light comes on, ~3.6 gallons to fill up at that point.
Getting 53mpg with a 95% freeway commute.

3. It was $3.31/gallon at the Chevron down the street from my house.  Was going on a ride without gas stations, so I filled about 20 miles before the light would have come on.

Gas here in the island's $4.15 reg & $4.25 89...which I use.
I usually get around 40mpg on my M900 w FCR 41's & that includes commuting & frisky riding combined.
My gas gauge is not working so I set the mileage trip control each fill up & at 100 mi I replenish the tank.

What's the octane rating?

I get about 14 km per liter ... don't know how many MPG that is... using octane 95 gasoline and I ride in a really heavy stop-and-go traffic, it takes me 30 minutes to cover 10 km (my commuting distance).
I guess in light traffic or open road the gas consumption will be better.

Not sure who you were asking ???

I use 89 oct....for the first 2.5 years with this bike I used 92.  (1998 M900)
I have been told it makes no difference with my lower compression engine.....
I tried tanks of 87, 89 & 92...doesn't seem to make a difference in performance etc..thoughts???

I just bought my first fill up on my new 696.  With an indicated 104 miles, the low fuel light came on, so I hit the gas station and put 2.5 gallons in.  This is with me doing stop and goes at a parking lot for a few days and some around town riding. 

I was asking the op.  But all should post as well..  shows the money saved on lower gasses if it does nothing different

As a rule of thumb you should use the lowest octane fuel you can without detonation (knock...ping...whatever you want to call it).  The octane rating of a fuel is a measure of its ability to resist combustion, not of its calorie content.  The things added to fuels to raise octane ratings are generally not as calorific as the fuel itself, so the higher octane fuels are generally not as calorific as lower octane ones.  That means they make less power per unit mass unless the engine in which they're buring can take advantage of the greater resistance to burning via higher compression, forced induction, or other volumetric efficiency increasing means.

To distill all that down....burn the cheap stuff if you can.  It makes more power and costs less, too!

My new Panigale is getting nearly 40 miles per gallon.....during the break-in period where I can't rev it over 6000 rpm.   ;D

What octane are you running?

87.  The owner's manual recommends 90 or higher.  However, cylinder pressure is reduced significantly at altitude (my driveway is at about 5400 feet) due to less efficient cylinder filling, so I can get away with lower octane fuels.  My turbocharged Mini still likes at least midgrade, but the normally aspirated Duc doesn't seem to care.

While I was in AZ my neon (srt4 big turbo)  was running crappy and I saw knock at anything above 5k rpm..  found a spot that sold 100oct n she loved it..  my comp is 8:1

Never fails.... gasoline thread = octane debate.

[popcorn]  ;D

Well yah... [laugh]

We have that here, too? ;D

My old M900 has a 4.2 gallon tank, and gets about 48 mpg average (46 if I'm mostly around town, more like 50 if I'm out for a good ride -- it seems to be most efficient at speed).  So I can get over 200 miles on a tank; I normally start looking for a gas station at 175 miles.  The low fuel light used to come on at about 160 miles, giving me about 40 reserve, but I quit trying to keep the fuel sensor working years ago and just use the tripmeter.  I ran 91 octane (U.S. measurement) for most of its early life, but the first time I had the heads off (at 122K) I found some carbon buildup, indicating I was running too high an octane, so I switched to regular (87 octane U.S. measurement), and have run that since without problem.

PhilB