Tips to Ride a Bike for Better Mileage

Tips to Ride a Bike for Better Mileage

With increasing city traffic and fuel prices, getting optimal mileage from a bike has been difficult. Even some best-branded bikes have failed to reduce the daily expenses. Here, you can improve a bike’s mileage only by following some tips.

1. Service Your Bike Regularly
One of the most effective bike riding tips to ensure better mileage is opting for bike servicing regularly. Servicing improves a bike’s engine health and also increases its durability. If servicing a bike is taking out too much from your pocket, do not forget to check engine oil.

2. Carburettor Setting
If regular maintenance is not improving car mileage, keep an eye on the carburettor and get it checked by professionals. Manually or electronically re-tuning of the carburettor helps restore the engine’s performance. Subsequently, the mileage of a bike also improves.

3. Ride at Controlled Speed
Riding at a consistent speed is essential to achieve high mileage. Abrupt acceleration leads to hard braking, which in turn results in poor mileage.

Wondering why?

Hard acceleration ends up consuming more fuel. If you can maintain an average speed of 40kph-55kph with minimal braking, you can undoubtedly ensure higher mileage.

4. Check Tyre Pressure
Bike riding tips to get high mileage include keeping an eye on tyre pressure. To ensure optimal fuel efficiency, you must frequently check tyre air pressure and maintain it to the manufacturer’s recommended limit. Reduced tyre pressure lowers the bike’s mileage because the rolling resistance increases due to the wider contact of the tyre with a road's surface area. On the other hand, higher tyre pressure may ensure higher mileage, but it will lead to decreased contact area and reduced traction.

5. Shift to Highest Gear
To ensure higher mileage, try to shift to the highest gear as soon as possible. This practice helps decrease the engine speed while maintaining the road speed, thus improving the mileage of your bike.

6. Opt for a Good Fuel Quality
Try to fill the fuel tank with good quality fuel. Good quality fuel increases fuel economy and ensures good engine health. Hence, avoid refilling tanks with contaminated fuel from unauthorised fuel tanks and visit only company-owned fuel pumps. Besides, try to visit the same fuel pump for consistency.

7. Use the Kill Switch
While stuck in traffic (for more than 30 seconds), use the kill switch and turn off the engine. It will help to save fuel as well as engine health.

"Now that the ways of getting high mileage are clear to you" let’s focus on ways to maintain better engine health.

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