Crap in '69 and still crap in April '24. I have ridden this train perhaps 40 times, it gets no better. A now more favourable route is by Al Boraq to Casablanca, then onward to Marrakesh.
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I didn’t realise that the NC 750 had such a small fuel tank. I never understood why Honda sold both the 500X and the 750X as they appeared to be competitors in the same market as they both have similar power, economy and to a certain extent appearance. The 17.7 litre fuel tank on the 500 gives it a huge range. Perhaps Honda thinks that it will appeal more to touring while the 750 with its frunk thing would be better for commuters. Perhaps I’ve got it wrong and the NC750X has a bigger tank than your NC500S.
I beg its pardon - both the NC750S (mine) and the (adventure styled) NC750X have a 14.1 litre tank, so not quite as tiny as I thought.
When I fill up I usually put about 10-11 litres in so that’s probably where I got the figure from (off the top of my head).
It does do 70 mpg (28 km/L) so the range is reasonable - but when travelling on autoroutes I tend to stop and fill up well before I get a flashing “refuel” indicator since aires de service are quite well spaced apart.
I think the fuel capacity of the Honda NC series is determined by the available space under the seat, since the normal tank area is occupied by the (very useful) “frunk”.
Of course with a moto, if you run out between stations you can just hang onto the back of a lorry by a sticky out bit, but be prepared to be very embarassed when he takes ages overtaking another one. You might be blamed for holding him back. 
That makes more sense, 11 litres is about the size of the tanks on my dual sport bikes. I’m surprised that you only average 70 mpg, I thought that they were less thirsty than that. Perhaps the word autoroute is the clue. My 500X averages in the heigh 80s and over 90mpg has been seen on the occasional fill up. Mind you in three years of ownership and having visited 8 countries it has not once been on a motorway. The fuel gauge on the 500X is bizarre as the reserve light starts flashing at just over 12 litres used. As it still has 5 litres left at that point it still has about 150km to go. From that point on it tells you how far you’ve been since the light came on and how much petrol you’ve used since then. I have done a lot of kilometres ‘on reserve’. With its tank capacity and economical engine it has a real world range of over 500km.
I’m lucky to get much more than 50mpg on the Sprint GT - and that’s keeping within speed limits at all times. In fact my Honda CR-V is more economical.
I thought there might be more news on here about Ryanair but I seem to e on the wrong thread 
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My Pan European averaged low 50s. The NC750 is always said to be super economical.
Apologies, we are suffering from the traditional SF malaise of thread drift - it’s like continental drift but takes pace over a much shorter timescale. 
Looks at display on S1000XR…35mpg 
To be honest I don’t really track it all that carefully, I’m going by what the readout on the dash usually says.
Chez moi in Sud-Angleterre I spend a fair amount of time in Surrey traffic or on dual carriageways - when I go to France most of the mileage would be blatting down the autoroute.
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I spent a few days in the Pyrenees last year with an old school friend on his V4 Multistrada. On fuel stops it was interesting to see that his bike was using exactly twice as much fuel as mine. The readout on my dash is in litres:100km, it currently reads 3,0.
Down here in the PO, the local authorities are worried because it will hit the tourist industry, the rugby and leave this airport (Perpignan) practically empty most of the year apart from airlines who come for the servicing and painting. Dragons Catalan regularly go to the north of the UK for super league games and vice-versa. Otherwise we only have Transavia to Orly.
so, if the Locals pay higher local taxes, the money raised can go to Perpignan airport to offset their losses caused by letting RyanAir have a contract which does not cover the airport’s costs.
then everyone would be happy… or would they?? 
Mind you, when Ryanair announces it is about to pull out from a route, it often seems to be a bargaining tactic so they can argue in favour of offsetting the increases with decreases from other parts of the airport’s services.
RyanAir want “something for nothing”… or certainly at a price they are happy with… and which in this instance is “below cost”.
I’ve seen similar bullying tactics break financially-sound businesses back in UK.
eg: How long can a company sell the product for less than it costs them to produce it???
To be fair, if people were sat around a real (rather than virtual) dinner table it is unlikely a gathering would end with the same conversational topics that it started with.
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Talking of Ryanair, I look in on my newly discovered Flightradar as I am passing several times a day and check up on planes near to where I live.
Yesterday there was a light plane flying from east to west overhead and when I checked it out it was a Learjet in Ryanair colours flying from Milan to somewhere not far west.
I had no idea that they were in the executive jet business as well.
They’re not. I think they have 3 or 4 Lear Jets for in-house use. They are for shipping parts and crew to where they are needed.
Thank you, interesting.