What is the most comfortable bike for malaysia highway?
Usage is travel from KL to all parts of malaysia. Maybe twice a month.
Use to owned 4sbk.
But now old already so now only have cb4.
If ride more than 150km/h. The fuel consumption are high.
End up need to top up at every stop.
So for 1000cc sbk. Either i ride slow or fast, the outcome is almost the same.
I am looking for bike that cruise 180km/h without needed to refuel for 3-400km journey.
Bike must be comfortable to ride 400x2 km each journey.
Please share any experience u guys had, since i never had any experience on touring bike.
Last i had is using z1000 kl-kt day trip.
My neck so painful and got fever somemore.

Versys 1000.

Can go fast....can go slow.... comfortable....easy to maintain...

Motocross bike

Seriously feel must be in the side of highway where the greens are to be safe from aunty driving viva or axia

Few time axia come in fast lane macam big boy but maintain 100kmh without giving way

Why not car?

Bike never design for comfort
Especially Good bike..

U wanna cruise at 180.without refuelling for 300-400km?

A versys 1000 when ridden sensibly can get about 300+km a tank.....but at 180kmh....highly unlikely. I doubt any bike can do that.....better bring ur expectations back to the ground.

The closest thing u can probably get to achieving that is MAYBE the BMW GSA series with its 30L fuel tank. Even then i highly doubt it can reach 400km/tank when cruising at 180kmh

cruising 180 km/h without refueling every 300-400 km.. you are asking for a car..
but the closest thing with what you want is most likely a bike with the biggest tank, so a bmw 1250 gsa or the latest 1300 gsa. if they feel too tall for you then bmw 1250 rt

Not sure if this is a troll post.

Cruise at 180 and get 400kms a tank?

If you got such experience riding all these bikes you say you do, you wouldn't be asking this question.

Go buy a tiger 1200 explorer or GSA.

Even then it would be a tall order for those mile munchers to get 400 at 180

I can think of 2 bikes with big tanks.
GSA and Africa Twin. 30L you definitely can go 300km above if you practice self discipline with the throttle.

Btw Z1000 naked bike go long distance sure tiring. Try the ninja 1000sx. Sport touring will offer more comfort for if that's what your are looking for.

Previously use sbk just go karak n klawang only.
Now got work demand to go outstation.
I just thought that bigger cc bike might have low fuel consumption when travel on highways since the rpm should be lower i supposed.
I will pinjam my fren gsa1250 to test to penang.

Ride @180km/h without refueling btw 300-400km....Well 400km without refueling with that speed I don't think so... But 300++ km without refueling got a few....

1. Pan Amerika
2. Honda VFR800
3. TIGER 1200 WITH 30L TANKS
4. BMW GSA

C70 is best bike for u

put in spare tank lah..

If you are not looking for speed but just outright range king, then can look at the Zontes ZT155G. Street scrambler bike. 20L tank. Famously able to go 1000kms on its 20L tank.

Hahaha

Yes and no.

But not at 180kmh as air drag increases exponentially with speed.

But yes, if you drive the small bike and big bike the same way, fuel consumption don't vary too much..but you have the benefit of the bigger tank on the bigger bike.

If I cruise at 130, my dominar 400 gets the same fuel consumption as my NK800, despite being twice the engine capacity and cyc and making 3x the power.

As someone already mentioned, your best bet would be the BMW GSA and Tiger 1200 explorer with the 30L tank.

Ducati's Desert X is rumoured to have available rear fuel tank option so that is also a consideration if you want a middle weight bike.

This post has been edited by jaycee1: Sep 30 2024, 12:41 PM

Meh,

Anything above 140kmh will eat up fuel like waterfall.

Been riding 25L tank capacity bike.. people said can go KL to Juru without refueling, when riding above 150kmh all the way, bukit merah need to pump already.

that's still ~12km per liter?

I guess, because at higher speeds the air resistance or drag on your bike is greater, which means the engine has to work harder to maintain speed.

yeah, I'm thinking that's still pretty good, but of course, cruising at legal speeds can get ~30km/L