My Tank is like the Tardis!

[Brownstoo]

Fuel gauges are shit. Mine has no gauge or reserve light or anything to tell me to fill up.

Also the inline 4's like yo gixxer tend to be quite thirsty for their size from my experience and what I've heard, but they're sportsbikes so yeah...

[Blackshear]

Fuel gauge! What luxury. I use the trip meter and reserve light.

RESERVE LIGHT?! What is this luxury?

[vindy500]

fuel gauge! What luxury. I use the trip meter and reserve light.

reserve light??????????

[Conquiztador]

With no working trip meter and no fuel gauge I have always relied on gut feeling. Tends to get me to fill up a little early. But so what?

Just been to Welly with my latest: K100. No adjustments or work on motor yet (she needs it!) and riding 120-150k/h I used 28l. Lets see, that makes... about 11 - 12k/litre. So I recon if I was easier on the throttle I would do better.

So as I have 750cc more then you I recon someone is siphoning your tank when you are not watching!

[xwhatsit]

So as I have 750cc more then you I recon someone is siphoning your tank when you are not watching!

No those transverse four 250s use extraordinary amounts of fuel. Not too bad when you consider they're making two-stroke levels of horsepower (the top ones made 45hp, which is more than a hotted-up RD250LC.

Consider also they nearly all use CV carbs and by this stage they're all a couple of decades old -- flogged out needles/emulsion tubes making them a bit rich and use a bit more fuel as well.

They pretty consistently suck down the juice like that.

Even the detuned nakeds, like the Hornet and the Bandit still have high fuel consumption, a little bit less but not by much.

[gatch]

On my first bike the fuel tap was poked and I didn't care enough to fix it, so fuel was on or off, if I ran out that was it, no res haha.

You soon learn to guage when you need to top up from odometer k's..

[Blackshear]

No those transverse four 250s use extraordinary amounts of fuel. Not too bad when you consider they're making two-stroke levels of horsepower (the top ones made 45hp, which is more than a hotted-up RD250LC.

Consider also they nearly all use CV carbs and by this stage they're all a couple of decades old -- flogged out needles/emulsion tubes making them a bit rich and use a bit more fuel as well.

They pretty consistently suck down the juice like that.

Even the detuned nakeds, like the Hornet and the Bandit still have high fuel consumption, a little bit less but not by much.

1990 - 45hp WHEN it came from the factory. Don't forget, even rolling down a hill with engine breaking, they're still suckin gas down like a thirsty thing.

I heard a story of a certain Diesel VW Golf that got 800k's on a full tank, wot costed him around $60 to fill up. That's 25% more economical than my bike.

[xwhatsit]

1990 - 45hp WHEN it came from the factory. Don't forget, even rolling down a hill with engine breaking, they're still suckin gas down like a thirsty thing.

I heard a story of a certain Diesel VW Golf that got 800k's on a full tank, wot costed him around $60 to fill up. That's 25% more economical than my bike.

Well it doesn't matter how much horsepower it has now, that's the horrible thing about old bikes... there's two line graphs that start from the moment they leave the factory. One is falling at a constant rate, that's your horsepower. The other one is rising at a constant rate, that's your fuel/oil consumption

[mossy1200]

Are you measuring in miles or smiles?
Turn the bonneville to reserve when it splutters.Thats about an hour and a half into the ride.

[Boob Johnson]

Fuel gauge? Ha ha, never had one of them fancy things before! I always zero in the trip meter on every fill up & I leave the reserve on at all times.

18.66 litre tank & get around 240km's from it on a 97 ZX7R