On the Road Again!

Not bad at all for a 1200 triple! Mostly motorway trip down from Manchester on the M6 to another fill up at Cherwell Valley on the M40. Cruise control where possible and keeping to what TomTom said was 70 mph.

Screenshot A few days of using the throttle a bit over actively has seen the mpg drop under 50 again after an improvement. I tried to stick to no more than an indicated 80 on the clock on the motorways, but a few times I forgot and let it creep up, plus a few traffic jams that were slow going seem to have killed off the improvement over the last four fill ups. Tomorrow I have a longer trip as we have a Team Away-Day in rural Essex.  Most of the trip will be motorway and there might even be a ford to have a look at..... It's a bit of fun in reality, and I don't take too much stock in that graph but maybe someone else does. The free app doesn't calculate as many figures and the history is limited, but 69p and the full app is pretty good. I don't know if they do it for the other smart phones, but the iPhone app is pretty easy to use.

For a while I have been playing with an app in the iPhone called mpgcalc. There are two versions, free and the full one that stores more entries and also gives a wider choice of stats. mpgcalc data The export data file is a txt file but comma separated and it goes into excel pretty easily and here is the resulting graph.   It shows 19 entries.  The 1st is actually the sum of the fuel put in and the miles ridden from a whole load of entries I would have lost as data isn't transferable if you pay the 69p and upgrade to the pay app.  Shows a pretty consistent pattern with a wide difference between the highest and the lowest mpg.  This is for the UK gallon. When I fill up tonight the graph is liable to take a dip as I was quite "spirited" on the way home after I was blocked on my favourite curve by a muppet in a BMW 5-series.  Outside the Emirates Stadium The ride in this morning was pretty easy. The same holdup as yesterday, so there must ...