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Well here I am just a matter of a few weeks at most away from being the owner of a brand NEW Honda Gold Wing GL1800. This has been a very long and painful road getting here…heavy on the pain part…and not in a figurative sense…! Long story really, but just as I was about to buy my dream bike, I had a industrial mishap and got injured which put me side lines when it came to riding of a gold wing and for that fact even my Honda Shadow for 2+ years.
Ok….so here I am just a matter of weeks away from owning my first GW, I have ridden a few of them, so riding one is not going to be any big deal. But what I really want to know is…How many MPG or Litre per (100 Km’s) will I get….??? I have done some reading and the more I read the more lost on the subject I am getting. Some say they are only getting about 30 MPG, while other say high 30’s to low 40’s for MPG, and yet some claim getting near 50 MPG from there GL1800…?
Ok….so what the real world number…? What is it….30 MPG or near 50 MPG….? Now I understand full well it’s a large engine…but really what can I really hope to get, or is each one of the GL1800’s a beast all its own and has wildly swinging MPG reading…?
I guess I would like some real life figures like what’s you worse MPG that you have ever gotten, what’s your average and what the best you have ever gotten. Just like with my Honda Shadow the VT 750, I knew other that had them and some would say they only get about 150 Km’s to a tank, other say they get very low 200’s per tank. Me…well I guess I must be doing something right as I almost always get 270 to 290 Km’s from a tank when I need to switch to reserve tank. Having no gas gauge on the shadow my trip OD is my gas gauge that I go by. It’s all I have…
Also I have heard more then a few people write on other sites that the GL1800 eats tries like its going out of style…some saying they only get 5,000 off a set and they are shot. Ok…so what the true, what is real…what can I expect to see from a new 2010 GL1800…?
Lloyd

Ok….so here I am just a matter of weeks away from owning my first GW, I have ridden a few of them, so riding one is not going to be any big deal. But what I really want to know is…How many MPG or Litre per (100 Km’s) will I get….??? I have done some reading and the more I read the more lost on the subject I am getting. Some say they are only getting about 30 MPG, while other say high 30’s to low 40’s for MPG, and yet some claim getting near 50 MPG from there GL1800…?
Ok….so what the real world number…? What is it….30 MPG or near 50 MPG….? Now I understand full well it’s a large engine…but really what can I really hope to get, or is each one of the GL1800’s a beast all its own and has wildly swinging MPG reading…?
I guess I would like some real life figures like what’s you worse MPG that you have ever gotten, what’s your average and what the best you have ever gotten. Just like with my Honda Shadow the VT 750, I knew other that had them and some would say they only get about 150 Km’s to a tank, other say they get very low 200’s per tank. Me…well I guess I must be doing something right as I almost always get 270 to 290 Km’s from a tank when I need to switch to reserve tank. Having no gas gauge on the shadow my trip OD is my gas gauge that I go by. It’s all I have…
Also I have heard more then a few people write on other sites that the GL1800 eats tries like its going out of style…some saying they only get 5,000 off a set and they are shot. Ok…so what the true, what is real…what can I expect to see from a new 2010 GL1800…?
Lloyd