And a mate of mine i ride with regular has an 03 GSXR1000 and he gets the same mpg from his bike as my storm, dont know the tank capacity though.sirch345 wrote:A mate of mine use to have a Thunderace which drank about the same amount of oil as your mates FZR1000 EXUP. I wonder what the R1 is likebluesman wrote: My friend drives FZR1000 EXUP from 1995, his bike eats almost 1 l of oil every 1000 km (typical of that model of Yamaha, nothing wrong - just eats lot of oil unless you keep it very hot) while Storm ate no oil at all.
Problem is not consumption, problem is size of tank...
Chris.
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As far as I hear from R1 owners (02-04 models) it does eat much more oil than let say CBR954 or 1000rr, but not as bad as FZR or Thunderace...sirch345 wrote:A mate of mine use to have a Thunderace which drank about the same amount of oil as your mates FZR1000 EXUP. I wonder what the R1 is likebluesman wrote: My friend drives FZR1000 EXUP from 1995, his bike eats almost 1 l of oil every 1000 km (typical of that model of Yamaha, nothing wrong - just eats lot of oil unless you keep it very hot) while Storm ate no oil at all.
Problem is not consumption, problem is size of tank...
Chris.
They all had troubles with gearbox or clutch thou...
I been told that it is result of expanded clearance piston/bore, meant to deal with heat expansion. However, CBR900 of 1995 eats just no oil at all, and FZR swallows liters
it's one of most common jokes in our biking community when we start silly talks about what is better - Honda or Yamaha 
Honda-men argument " Yamaha eats oil" 4 wheels moving body, 2 wheels moving soul
