Happy Motoring With My Platinum Motorbike

[dutchrdam]

This weekend the teller did the 10.000 km and still drive with a big smile on my Platinum motorbike.

Since a few weeks Platinum do road shows by big companies and (semi) government and the sells are in the lift. Beside the road shows also the petrol price is a good stimulus for people to leave the Fortuner home and take the motorbike.

About my Platinum I can't say anything else that that I am happy with it. The oil check shows that the engine is in good condition and no serious scrapings of metal are found in t.

The repairs done under warranty, petrol meter and battery change, are done trough the dealer with a smile and with good mechanic skills.

The petrol usage is still 1 liter 91 for 25 kilometer and this in a mixed commuter trips.

With regards

[apetley]

Good that you are happy with your Platinum as I'm sure you have read many negatives here on TV.

Fuel consumption seems a little on the heavy side though. My Phantom averages between 35 and 40 kpl.

[madyakka]

This weekend the teller did the 10.000 km and still drive with a big smile on my Platinum motorbike.

Since a few weeks Platinum do road shows by big companies and (semi) government and the sells are in the lift. Beside the road shows also the petrol price is a good stimulus for people to leave the Fortuner home and take the motorbike.

About my Platinum I can't say anything else that that I am happy with it. The oil check shows that the engine is in good condition and no serious scrapings of metal are found in t.

The repairs done under warranty, petrol meter and battery change, are done trough the dealer with a smile and with good mechanic skills.

The petrol usage is still 1 liter 91 for 25 kilometer and this in a mixed commuter trips.

With regards

What cc is it? I get 25km per litre on my 750 suzuki

regards

Madyakka

[goldfish]

Thank you. A very concise and informative post there from the Platimum Motorcycle Sales Department. We wish you all the best in your endeavours

[moo9]

I get 16 km/1 l with my bike in city traffic. But it's not a Platinum

Seriously, if I would look for an economic bike, I would consider a Honda Wave, nothing else. Cheap to buy and quite high resell value. I also have a Honda Automatic (nice), but very thirsty in city traffic (about 25 km per litre).

Ride safe, Cheers

Edited August 6, 2008 by moo9

[SweatySock]

My Phantom, purchased in December last year, also returns around 40km/litre. This is during drives up-country and not city traffic.

Great in these days of expensive fuel.

[Richard-BKK]

I agree a bit with most people here, dutchrdam your bike is a bit on the thirsty side. Maybe on a boring day you can side and play with your carburettor to try to make it a bit more lean. This is mostly a real time consuming job....

[bachelor]

Thank you. A very concise and informative post there from the Platimum Motorcycle Sales Department. We wish you all the best in your endeavours

Our local bobby runs around on a Monaco all day & never seems to have any hassle.

Fuel consumption does seem to be a bit on the high side though dutch.

[Issangeorge]

I noticed several Phantom owners averaging 35-40 the best I have done was 36 and that is all highway, maybe I'm too heavy on the throttle. Issangeorge.

[dutchrdam]

To compare fuel consumption you need to compare the same vehicles’ under the same conditions. By a motorbike is beside the motorbike also the rider’s position on the motorbike from big influence.

The CW coefficient for a vehicle you can calculate with the next formula;

F = (A .Cw.P.C2) / 2 F in N, A in M2, P in Kg/M3 and V in M/S

In my case the A, 1.8M2, is very high because I did choice to sit straight up under 90 G with the bike and my body is big. Every 10 G positive or negative will have positive effect on the CW with about 12%.

Total mine motorbike with me as driver CW’s coefficient is 1.4096 (round on 4).

With this in mind comparisons with other situations we can only do if we know the CW coefficient of that new situation.

For Mr. Goldfish I only can say that I am not connected to Platinum in an other way then that I am a buyer and happy user of one of their products is.

I am a motor lover who design, build and modify many engines’ and motorbikes in the past 30 years with as crown an own production motorbike with rotation engine.

With regards

[Richard-BKK]

Dutchrdam,

"Ken ik je misschien, ik werkte toen-der-tijd voor een Europese motorfiets fabrikant"

My Dutch sucks, I know, it is just that I communicate with a lot of International racing teams based in Holland. My Ducati 1098S does 25km/liter but that is when I ride relaxed and touring Thailand. Inside Bangkok traffic, other that my Honda Wave 100X is the cheapest way to travel, comes the Kawasaki D-Tracker who impressed me and my g/f with doing better then we expected. Don't buy a Kawa Ninja if you on a fuel budget, the little dragon loves fuel, it is as hungry as a Mia Noi (No experience they tell me, jing jing)

[dutchrdam]

I don't know Richard-BKK if I know you. I where on the side line from many car and motorbike tuning programs that in that timer where done in Europe. In that time, and still today, many teams, to name a few Kreidler, Honda, Porsche, Citroen, Fiat, DAF, Mercedes, Volvo and Saab use our family company knowledge and workshop to press out the last PSK's out there engine.

Now days it's mainly the super sport cars for endurance races like Le Mans 24 and rally cars. Special in the Kreidler period, 1690-1970, I where active with tuning, programming and rebuilding motorbikes.

I send a photo from the, in my view, best motorbike ever build.

With regards

[Richard-BKK]

My dad had something to do with the world speed record, set by Kreidler, but wow that is ages ago. I need to look that up. Anyway, our company moved in the years from Holland to Asia, we have now several production units, we produce engine's and mostly parts for several international racing outfits/teams in the world.

[BSJ]

That OCR is a rare bird indeed! Was it a Mazda rotary engine they used? There would only be a handful in the entire universe!

[dutchrdam]

That OCR is a rare bird indeed! Was it a Mazda rotary engine they used? There would only be a handful in the entire universe!

No it where a adapted Proton rotary engine. Proton in that time was a sub division of Citroen but the driving force behind this engine came from the NSU Werke GmbH. The NSU did build a car, the RO 80, with a 2 disk rotation engine from 800 cc.

Direct from that engine we build the ORC. Total there were 37 bikes build. Even in this small series there are many sub models with all kind of engine adoptions like smart electronic ignition, a Bosch fuel injection system and Solex compressor.

The last 3 were full race bikes for on the street. 162 PK, 28.000 rpm and from 0 till 160 in 6 seconds, 8 gears and with a top far behind the 380 km/h. Big problem was the engine with a average life cycle of 50 hour for it needs a overhaul of the rotation system.

In that time we experiment with ceramic and (hard)chrome that mixes to find the best solutions.

Pity the money runs out and we must close that project but always look back with big pleasure to that time and with a nice motorbike in my Dutch garage

With regards