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1198
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PostPosted: 14:46 - 19 Sep 2020    Post subject: Chump of the day award.. Reply with quote
Today I award myself this prestigious title. Despite the ZZR having not one but two working fuel warning lights AND me knowing it’s low before I even started my trip, I ran out of petrol. What a chump.
(Thanks to the two motorcyclists who were stopping to help me on the A5 today just north of Shrewsbury too. I had help on the way, but thanks anyhow!)
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PostPosted: 14:52 - 19 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Surely that qualifies you as a 'muppet' ?
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PostPosted: 14:53 - 19 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
I ought to have stuck one of these on the end - Smile
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PostPosted: 15:07 - 19 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
F18 wrote:
Surely that qualifies you as a 'muppet' ?
A chumpet maybe?
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PostPosted: 15:13 - 19 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chumpet, muppet, chump, all are applicable and slightly less self deprecating than the words I used at the time. Still, it was a decent day weather wise so no real harm done!
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PostPosted: 17:16 - 19 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Funny, father-in-law did the same thing today Thinking Hope it's not catching!
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PostPosted: 17:28 - 19 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
At least you won’t do it again for the next 130 miles or so. Laughing
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PostPosted: 19:09 - 19 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
Funny, father-in-law did the same thing today Thinking Hope it's not catching!


It was my father in law who came to rescue me with unleaded, bizarrely!
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PostPosted: 20:25 - 19 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
When I bought my first bike, a CB175 I was riding to work to start the afternoon shift on day three of ownership. The bike cut out and wouldn't restart so after making sure there was still fuel in the tank I pushed it for about a mile to a bike shop, where the owner switched the fuel tap to reserve, pushed the button and away it went Embarassed

Twenty plus years later I bought a Honda Bros 400 after a break from biking and again it stopped dead on the way home. This time I figured it out myself, same problem.

In between those two, my first car (A reliant Regal because I still only had a bike licence) ran out of petrol on the drive home. The mate who was with me had to help me push it home. Not so lucky this time as I'd managed to block the carb Sad

Some problems just seem to follow you round.
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PostPosted: 20:30 - 19 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
ZZR 1400?
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mentalboy
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PostPosted: 03:21 - 20 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
struan80 wrote:
ZZR 1400?
The '94 model 1100 certainly didn't have two fuel warning systems!
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PostPosted: 10:40 - 20 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Technically every bike has two fuel warning systems. Stuttering, then stopping.
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1198
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PostPosted: 21:38 - 20 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
mentalboy wrote:
struan80 wrote:
ZZR 1400?
The '94 model 1100 certainly didn't have two fuel warning systems!


The 1990 one certainly does though - albeit fed from the same switch I suspect!
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PostPosted: 23:13 - 20 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
1198 wrote:
mentalboy wrote:
The '94 model 1100 certainly didn't have two fuel warning systems!


The 1990 one certainly does though - albeit fed from the same switch I suspect!


Huh, I think I just had a fuel gauge. Don't remember a warning light but a quick Google shows that the earlier C models like yours had a fairly prominent fuel light on the right side of the cluster.
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PostPosted: 07:57 - 21 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
ZZR; That is a bike you definitely do not want to push home Razz
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PostPosted: 09:58 - 21 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
1198 wrote:

It was my father in law who came to rescue me with unleaded, bizarrely!


Why who did you call to help you?
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PostPosted: 12:50 - 21 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
I ran out of fuel a few times on my last bike which didn't have a fuel gauge, all due to me forgetting to switch the tap from "reserve" to "on" when I filled up. I always felt like a twat when the bike started to cough and splutter and I would try to switch to reserve only to find out I had already used it Mad
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PostPosted: 20:10 - 21 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Older 125's rarely have fuel gauges. When I went to sell my KMX125 I was running low on fuel, being the tight fisted sod I was, I didn't fill it up as was selling anyway.
Bike shudders to halt. No problem, switch to reserve. Reserve was also strangely empty. Whoops. Problem resolved after one angry parent and a jerry can.
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PostPosted: 21:00 - 21 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kris wrote:
ZZR; That is a bike you definitely do not want to push home Razz


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PostPosted: 22:02 - 21 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kris wrote:
ZZR; That is a bike you definitely do not want to push home Razz


250kgs on the scales at the last MOT (1/3 of a tank of fuel) - it's some unit, and that was without the panniers and tank bag that's currently knocking 10mph off the top end...
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PostPosted: 22:11 - 21 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
mentalboy wrote:
a quick Google shows that the earlier C models like yours had a fairly prominent fuel light on the right side of the cluster.


Indeed it does - actually it has two. I ignored them both - despite them being so bright they could probably be seen from space!
As an aside the same lights came on again this evening, slightly earlier than normal at 148miles from full (normal is 160-162, but 'progress' was being made). The lights went off a few miles later while I was nursing it to a petrol station (180 miles from filling, I was getting worried!). I fear that my warning lights have packed up....
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PostPosted: 02:49 - 22 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
1198 wrote:
mentalboy wrote:
a quick Google shows that the earlier C models like yours had a fairly prominent fuel light on the right side of the cluster.


Indeed it does - actually it has two. I ignored them both - despite them being so bright they could probably be seen from space!
As an aside the same lights came on again this evening, slightly earlier than normal at 148miles from full (normal is 160-162, but 'progress' was being made). The lights went off a few miles later while I was nursing it to a petrol station (180 miles from filling, I was getting worried!). I fear that my warning lights have packed up....


I didn't find that the top box and panniers made much difference to the mpg, it returned my best mileage fully loaded with pillion when we went touring - the old 'sharp jab in the ribs' routine had a lot to do with that!! Laughing
I don't know about you but my old Zed had the widest fuel consumption variation of any bike I ever owned, 49-51mpg touring, as low as 18mpg when I wasn't!
Luckily for me the D model had a reserve tap for those rare occasions when I didn't keep an eye on the mileage travelled since last fill up and I never had to resort to pushing it, it was dodgy enough to push it six feet back into a parking spot. Fortunately my short legs aren't so short that I couldn't waddle it back while sat on it but even then you didn't want it to lean off centre too much. I did do some running bump starts with it which were always sphincter twitching moments, that fairing and bulk made it a tad awkward going from run to jump, especially on the flat when the bitch would slow down significantly while trying to jump on her....
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PostPosted: 23:26 - 23 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
1198 wrote:

Indeed it does - actually it has two. I ignored them both - despite them being so bright they could probably be seen from space!
As an aside the same lights came on again this evening, slightly earlier than normal at 148miles from full (normal is 160-162, but 'progress' was being made). The lights went off a few miles later while I was nursing it to a petrol station (180 miles from filling, I was getting worried!). I fear that my warning lights have packed up....

Laughing Laughing Laughing
I managed to push my sportster into 125 miles last time I was down in Dorset/Wiltshire (couple of months ago now!) I had done a LOT of motorway miles, so knew I had a bit of spare in the tank, which usually only does about 100 miles around London ... but I was bricking it on my way past Stonehenge back to Amesbury. Imagined myself pushing the damn thing along there and was panicking, didn't think I would get to Solstice Services.

Luckily I ended up getting it back to Amesbury and then the next day, most of the way back up the A303 before I filled it (before I got on the M3!) I think I put it on reserve just the other side of Andover, just in case.

Really shouldn't try my luck like that Rolling Eyes
But then, I've only had the RAC out once this year, and not at all last year. It's not as if I would be taking the piss if I got stranded and phoned them to rescue me.

Do they even do call-outs to single lone old women who are bolshy about stopping for petrol unless they absolutely have to? One imagines they probably sit there saying "Don't send a rescue guy out to that old tart, she takes the piss constantly with her cheesy Antipodean grin and red lipsticky ways".
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