Wellington motorway - thanks mate

[DougieNZ]

I ran out of fuel on the Motorway in Wellington yesterday arvo - even though my electronic gagetry said I still had 50 km to go. I was just ringing the AA when a nice chap on a DR650 stopped and gave me 1/2 a litre of fuel out of his tank. I was away again within 5 minuteds of coming to a stop - and before Mr Plod came along with his ticket book...

Thanks mate - you're a legend! It's nice to see that this sort of thing still happens!

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[Trudes]

Wicked! Good on you nice petrol fairy!

[slimjim]

good stuff... no switch over to res on a st ? gees that aren't good..lol

[DougieNZ]

Yeah... no reserve, but there is a supposed digital system that when the fuel level gets to 1 bar you get a digital range to go reading.

Lesson learnt... when you get to 1 bar... time to fill up!

You should have seen the look on the girls face at the service station when I put 28 odd litres of fuel in the bike! :-)

[Bend-it]

28 litres?!?!? Yikes!! That's a LARGE petrol tank for a bike!! Haha!

Congrats on the fuel fairy, and may he/she live long and prosper

[Lurch]

That rider was well prepped to have a fuel hose on him. :2thumbsup

[mnkyboy]

Good Work that man,

I did the same once on the napier - taupo. Guy on his bonne had misjudged his fuel. The guy at the pub was gonna charge him 25 bucks for 5 litres too.

Don't need a hose to get fuel out either. Just some sort of container.

[Devil]

You should have seen the look on the girls face at the service station when I put 28 odd litres of fuel in the bike! :-)

Funny isnt it! I put in 31 litres just the other day. Cashier is looking from computer screen to forecourt and back again, probably considering that someone had done a drive off!
I like to give them a minute just for my amusement before telling them that it's a really big tank ;)

[DougieNZ]

Good Work that man,


Don't need a hose to get fuel out either. Just some sort of container.

Yeah, as luck would have it there was a 1ltr plastic milk container lying on the side of the motorway. You wouldn't credit it. A litterbug saved me!

[Lurch]

I can't say that I'd be too keen to pop a fuel hose off on a hot bike on the side of the road!

[KrazyGixxerBoy]

Same thing happened to me a while back. Nice joker on an old BMW stopped and literally unclipped his whole tank and poured some gas in....unfortunately it was quite hard to judge the flow and we thought it was enough but I ran out of gas about 500 metres down the road! oh well...definately the thought that counts!

[DougieNZ]

Yeah, I had similar thoughts as I was heading up the Ngaranga Gorge to the Service Station. The 1/2 litre was just enough...

On the DR it was quite safe to do this. He turned the fuel off, removed the hose, then poured the gas in to the bottle. Not a drop spilt anywhere. I must admit I couldn't do this on the ST even if I wanted to! A tow would be the best I could offer or a trip to the nearest station for some gas in a tin!

[Cynic]

I can't say that I'd be too keen to pop a fuel hose off on a hot bike on the side of the road!

The mighty DR's have an old fashioned thing called a carb, undo the drain screw on the float bowl a wee bit and the fuel gushes out merrily...

No need to drop hoses..... :2thumbsup

[Insanity_rules]

Welly motorway has some good buggers on it!

[Elysium]

Some people say you shouldn't trust the fuel gage when you get to the last wo bars or so as the levels can be off.

[I'm motarded]

Good shit :banana:

[PrincessBandit]

Some people say you shouldn't trust the fuel gage when you get to the last wo bars or so as the levels can be off.

Yeah, I was looking slightly worriedly at my fuel gauge on the motorway yesterday - the last bar was flashing and I was still a good 8 km from home. Now my brain was saying you will easily get there, the last bar indicated you're down to your last 1 1/2 litres - easy peasy worth about 18 km. But that little worry worm made me get off early and head for the nearest pump.

I've been meaning to do a run to see just how far I can get before desperately needing Mr BP or Shell etc.

So encouraging to hear about kind people who will stop and help out with fuel as well as other mechanical problems.

[MarkH]

I ran out of fuel on the Motorway in Wellington yesterday arvo - even though my electronic gagetry said I still had 50 km to go.

For those with enough spare storage space on their bikes there are alway fuel bottles (http://www.livingsimplynz.com/products/stoves/liquid_fuel_stoves) that you could carry. A Primus 1.5L bottle can be filled with up to 1350ml of petrol - more than enough to get off the motorway before getting a ticket.

[Elysium]

For those with enough spare storage space on their bikes there are alway fuel bottles (http://www.livingsimplynz.com/products/stoves/liquid_fuel_stoves) that you could carry. A Primus 1.5L bottle can be filled with up to 1350ml of petrol - more than enough to get off the motorway before getting a ticket.

The fireball will be great to watch when you bin the bike.:crazy:

[Highlander]

Yeah, as luck would have it there was a 1ltr plastic milk container lying on the side of the motorway. You wouldn't credit it. A litterbug saved me!

Or should that be Litre bug?

Your assistant may not like being called a fairy. :slap:

[StoneY]

I picked up one fuel case off the wainui hill and took him to get gas (it was dark- no hose pulling situation on THAT corner) and a while back dropped a guy into town who's trailbike had broken the go cable on his throttle assembly :(

Karma- it comes back round to you and did for me
When KGB and his mate saved my ass after a back axle came loose- kudos to AJ and Quasi for making the pit lane available at short notice too ;)

Goes around comes around- never leave a biker on the roadside ;)

[MarkH]

The fireball will be great to watch when you bin the bike.:crazy:

:confused::scratch: I am not too sure how an aluminium fuel bottle with petrol in it is any more dangerous than the bikes fuel tank. For that matter how could a fuel bottle in you pannier/top box/under the seat be worse than several litres of petrol between your legs? :eek5:

[BMWST?]

put 30 l in the ol pd today....Would be easy to pull the hose of the carby or tank to fill a container,in fact its so easy to get the tank of could fill the other bike straight from the pd tank

[Elysium]

:confused::scratch: I am not too sure how an aluminium fuel bottle with petrol in it is any more dangerous than the bikes fuel tank. For that matter how could a fuel bottle in you pannier/top box/under the seat be worse than several litres of petrol between your legs? :eek5:

True you have fuel between your legs but why add more fuel to the fire? You never know what could happen in a crash as the bottles could get thrown from the crash and start a fire or explode....never know what could happen.

[MarkH]

True you have fuel between your legs but why add more fuel to the fire? You never know what could happen in a crash as the bottles could get thrown from the crash and start a fire or explode....never know what could happen.

Life = risk *shrug*

I wouldn't rate the chances of the fuel bottle exploding as being very high - I'd be more worried about the crash itself than what is happening with the fuel bottle. My fuel bottle would be cushioned by wet weather gear and it is unlikely to get thrown anywhere in a crash.

[KoroJ]

Yeah... no reserve, but there is a supposed digital system that when the fuel level gets to 1 bar you get a digital range to go reading.

Lesson learnt... when you get to 1 bar...

....and just how many times do you have to learn that lesson Dougie??

[DougieNZ]

:bleh:......:2thumbsup......:done:

[Swoop]

Goes around comes around- never leave a biker on the roadside ;)
Damn right.:yes: