Pissy Small Fuel tank

[GettinBetter]

Ok, so I bought a bike today...
Just liked the look of it...an it was red.... what more do you need

Anyway, I did my homework, and it has a piss poor small fuel tank, but ticked a large majority of the other boxes. Now the other week I nearly got a V-Max at a good price ridiculously low mileage and mint condition, but it too had a pissy small tank, plus I didn't want a car engine in a bike, and pay car tax & insurance, and the seals were all over 30 years old, blah blah.

Why on earth do manufacturers think you want to fill your bike up after every hundred miles or so? Whats all that about.

13 liter / 3.4 U.S. gal / 2.9 imp. gal
@~40 MPG (US) that's roughly 120 miles, assume you don't run to empty before you fill that's now down to 100 miles.

I bought it knowing I'll probably go for some customisation tank wise, because I want 200+ miles, but why do they do it?

[wr6133]

If it's a cruiser it's because you don't need more than 120 miles to go to Starbucks and visit a rent boy. Maybe need to refill if you want the go to the arseless chaps store but how often does one go?

[Ste]

What bike is it?

[Easy-X]

Small tanks are fitted to Harleys so you can flex more often at the gas station
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[kawakid]

Litre not liter, I failed my English 5 times and needed to bribe an examiner to pass, I hate American spellings.
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[Robby]

[doggone]

It will be less of a problem than you are imagining, depending where you live consider buying at least one jerry can or something so that if it's a bit low when you are about to set off from home you can top it up.
Even if you have a filling station close by there will be the time it is closed for whatever reason.

You have at least two hours riding time after which a quick stop is often welcome anyway if only to stretch legs.
If doing a tour to wilder parts you might want to get a can to carry but chances are even in Scotland it won't be needed with a bit of forethought.

My CRF250 has an even smaller tank but does do about 70mpg however that's still about 100 miles - it's rarely a problem because if it's below half at home I put 2 or 3 litres in even though nearest petrol station is now at least 8 miles away

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Nowhere in the UK is more than 26 miles from a petrol station, apparently.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

[pepperami]

A few years back I tried to do LE-JOG in less than 24 hours without using motorways on my 250.
Through my mis-timing, I arrived in Scotland late evening and low on fuel.
The nearest petrol station was closed and I didn’t have enough fuel to continue.
I had to wait for the petrol station to open in the morning. 4&1/2 hours
Luckily there was a Travelodge (I think it was Travelodge) close by and I booked in and had a bit of a kip.
I missed my target by 2&1/2 hours .

My bad planning and remote petrol stations that are not 24 hour caused my fail.
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[blurredman]

[GettinBetter]

[P.]

If I get over 120, I haven't ridden fast enough. I think the worst I had was when riding a VTR.

[Blah blah]

The fuel light came on on my S2r today while out on a blat... 13 litres of tesco 99 later and it's sloshing out of the cap.

That's good for about 100-120 miles... the teenager's Mito get through a similar amount of fuel in less than that!

[xX-Alex-Xx]

[Nobby the Bastard]

After an hour I find it useful to get off and have a stretch anyway.
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[quote="xX-Alex-Xx"

And yet I still have to fill up a petrol can twice a year because the wife runs out of fuel, despite working literally 200 metres away from a petrol station (and passing about 4 each way to/from work).

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this is why women belong in the kitchen.

(i hope CorriganJ isnt reading this)

[wr6133]

[xX-Alex-Xx]

[Wonko The Sane]

My ZZR 600 used to get about 130 miles out of a tank, if I brimmed it I could happily get from Manchester to Oxford without stopping, after which I was quite glad to stop and stretch legs.

Hornet got about 100 miles out of a tank

Fazer did similar to the ZZR

if you want long range, you have to go touring / adventure bike really
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[stinkwheel]

The filling stations at Scourie and Durness are now pay at pump. They used to be closed on a Sunday. If you landed up in Durness on a Saturday evening on a motorbike with anything like a small tank after the filling station shut, you were there 'till Monday.

Anyway, the farthest from a filling station is 37 miles, Rannoch Station. But since it's a no-through road, make it you need to have 74 miles in your tank to get there and back.
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[GettinBetter]

[Skudd]

GS Adventure, no problems here.
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