Wellington motorway - thanks mate

**DougieNZ** · 17th September 2009, 09:15

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!

**Trudes** · 17th September 2009, 09:26

Wicked! Good on you nice petrol fairy!

**slimjim** · 17th September 2009, 09:27

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

**DougieNZ** · 17th September 2009, 09:39

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** · 17th September 2009, 10:13

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** · 17th September 2009, 10:21

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

**mnkyboy** · 17th September 2009, 11:02

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** · 17th September 2009, 11:02

Originally Posted by DougieNZ

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** · 17th September 2009, 11:16

Originally Posted by mnkyboy

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** · 17th September 2009, 11:50

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** · 17th September 2009, 13:59

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** · 17th September 2009, 14:05

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** · 17th September 2009, 20:58

Originally Posted by 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!

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.....