Do you just spank the tank ..........

[mickfulton]

.and listen for the waves ?

Having divorced my nice young ybr and moved in with a much filthier saucy old gpz500s , Im struggling living with out a fuel gauge.

My memory isn't the best due to being a teenager in the late nineties so setting the 'journey distance' thing upon fueling and keeping an eye on it is quite a step for me.

How do you cope with this?
Can you kind of tell how much is left by listening, after wiggling the tank ?
Can I not just pop a rudimentary one on ?

Sorry if this is a daft question, cheers for at least reading it

[whitedevil]

When you switch to reserve start looking for a garage
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[chillyman0]

Or just wait until it needs switching to reserve...

Thats assuming you remembered to turn it back to 'On' after you filled up
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[jimbothe]

Hold your Zippo in there and shake the bike (for best results do it wearing sunglasses and sat on the bike), if it fills up enough to light a fag then you have fuel. If it doesn't then you need to get some.
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[jimspeed]

yes its the biggest pain in the arse, they managed to make a temperature gauge so why the bloody hell not a fuel gauge too.
I just fill up around 150 miles but I can see a long push happening when I forget to switch back from res and run it dry
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[pinkyfloyd]

Go out, fill the tank up and reset the trip counter. Ride around town until you have to switch to reserve. Take note of the reading on the trip counter and take around 5 miles off it.

Every time you get to that amount then its time to fill up. For motorway riding and cruising days out you will get more. But town riding in stop start traffic will give you the minimum.
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[mistergixer]

I've never had a bike with either a reserve tap or a fuel gauge.

(SRAD onwards) Gixers just have a fuel light to warn you when they're running low.

I always got around 100 miles before the fuel light came on, and then about 20 miles more before it ran dry and conked out.



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[Paulington]

I've never had a fuel gauge on a motorcycle either, apart from a hire bike I used for a little while.

I don't understand what's hard about:

"Oh, I've hit reserve, I better find a petrol station in the next 20 miles or so."

I doubt there is anywhere in the entire country that doesn't have a petrol station within 20 miles.
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[Dazbo666]

With the GPZ I always had one eye on the trip computer - about 150-160 miles from full tank to reserve
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[c-m]

TGhe GPZ has two trip counters, plus a fuel tap. Plus it returns great MPG. You can't really mess up
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[jjdugen]

Try riding a Firestorm, you are ALWAYS looking for a petrol station. Mind you, the thing is so unruly that frequent petrol stops are the only way to stop it from shaking your body to bits......

[stinkwheel]

I once landed up pulling into Durness on a Saturday night on my GPZ500 just as it went onto reserve. On a Sunday back then, the nearest filling station was in Ullapool, 65 miles away.

By riding in extreme fuel paranoia mode (so 40mph, trickling the throttle while hunched behind the fairing and coasting it down hills) I made it, although I coasted the last mile totally empty.

That's the longest distance between two fuel stops I know of in the UK (and the Scourie filling station halfway along now opens for a couple of hours on a Sunday) unless you count a trip to Rannoch station which is at the far end of a 40 mile long no-through road.

Anyone know of a further one?
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[mickfulton]

cheers for the advice as usual

GPZ here we come !!!!! woop woop

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[thx1138]

I got on the channel tunnel somewhere on reserve, and conked out at the pumps on the first motorway service.

My fuel gauge tells lies, but the reserve trip meter I use as a guide.

20 miles I'm still good. 25 I get nervy. 30 I really need to stop, now!

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Poured the contents of my stove into the 250 just to make sure it would make it to the station. Before i filled it up i looked inside and with my led torch noted that when the petrol laps a black mark in the tank id be pushing it soon.

The gauge on my other bike is like lots of cars i've driven. Shows full for ages...lazily holds onto 3/4...rushes to 1/2 and flashes at me as it disappears off the screen. Then i can ride it for another 50miles if i tickle the throttle and coast.

In short.
I tend to look in the tank and slosh it.
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[Quornholio]

I wait until I hit between 100 - 110 miles, and then brim the tank. That's a B6, and I don't wait to hit reserve for the fear of it dragging shit into the carbs.

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[Pete.]

You just have to get used to using the trip counter. If you do it every time you fill up you soon get used to it.

If you think you will ever need to use up reserve you can make a simple colculation to work out when it will run out.

Fill up your bike to the brim and re-set the trip.
Ride until you hit reserve then pull into a nearby station.
Fill up to the brim again, and make a not of the mileage and the liters used to fill from reserve.

Now all you have to do is take the miles you have done and divide it by the liters you have used then multiply by the tank capacity in liters as quoted in the bike specs. This is the distance you will run dry at, give or take a few miles.
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