sonny wrote:
GearDrivenCam wrote:
I've never really tracking my fuel economy for my 2011 CBR150R during regularly riding.
Mike
Mike:
pretty good numbers. how did you manage to get a cbr150r ?
From what I've gathered online - the fuel economy difference between the 150R and 125R is supposed to be negligible. Acquiring the engine was really a lucky event. As I'm sure you know - the only real difference between the CBR150R and the CBR125R is the 4-valve 149cc engine. And I already owned a 2011 CBR125R. So I knew the 149cc engine would just slip right in, and others confirmed this. When the 2011 iteration of the CBR150R became fuel injected, I sent some e-mails to a variety of vendors in Thailand to see if they had a spare 2011 CBR150R lying around their shop.
xxx (owned by some ex-pat Brits) responded that they indeed had one, as they were using it to design an exhaust around, and it was currently just sitting idle in their shop. It wasn't cheap, as I had to purchase the entire bike and then have only the engine and necessary parts needed for the swap - shipped to me. I'm sure one could potentially get a used one for considerably cheaper now - if they had a contact there. I believe it was around $2200 (including shipping) at the time. And I received the engine in about 4 days!
xxx were fantastic to deal with. A lot of people feel that this was the bike Honda should have imported into Canada in the first place. It's like a CBR125R on steroids. I suspect it has about 4 more hp at the rear wheel compared to the CBR125R. Of course - Marvin has his CBR125R tuned incredibly well. If I had to do it all over again - and couldn't source a 150R engine - I'd just try to mimic Marvin's setup.
Mike