GN250: How many km in a full tank? (for you)

[scooute]

when you fill it up take a note of the distance travelled and the litres it took to fill it. Divide kms by litres and you have your kilometers per litre. Knowing the capacity of your tank you can work out your range. Use the trip meter at each fill and use this as a fuel guage, at a quick glance you'll always know how far you can get on the gas you have remaining. Easy.

Yup good advise, thats what I just did, first time ive bothered as I live close to a gas station and tended to just fill it up when I felt it was time... now I know my distance and can use trip meter to save trips to gassie lol

[PrincessBandit]

When I had my ginny I used to fill anywhere between 180 - 200 ks. In the early days I forgot it had a reserve tank and pushed it home () from the local shops, much to my husbands amusement, thinking I'd done the "ultimate in silly girly run out of petrol" thing.

With my bandit the last fuel bar starts to flash so early it's almost tempting to ignore it - still get easily 100 kms once that petrol pump icon starts to flash! (The last actual bar though means I have about 20kms left in the tank). I wonder why it is that the pump icon flashes before the last bar; I'd have thought that the last bar would go then the petrol pump thingy would be going like "get thee to a petrol station. NOW." Ah well, haven't run out of gas on this bike yet - crikey, I'd never have the muscles to push it far! End result though I watch both gauge and odo.

Son doesn't have a gauge on his GS500 so he has been well trained on the ginny to watch the counter! Sorry for taking your thread slightly off course....

[release_the_bees]

Your bandit is better than my GT650R. The first time I went for a ride after I bought it, it still had two bars left on the fuel gauge when it ran out of juice. Luckily I was right outside a Mobil at the time.

I also had a lucky escape with the GS500 after I'd first bought it, as the fuel lines were on backwards, so I was actually using the reserve tank even though the fuel tap was in the normal 'on' position. For some reason I drained the tank to find about 200mls of fuel left.

[John_H]

I had a volty with the same tank and engine as the GN and used to get about 200kms to the tank.

[Bren]

When I had a Ginny (many many years ago) it was always using the odo as the fuel gauge, and even now on the GSXF it is the same cos the fuel gauge is unreliable. I know I will get 220KM out of my tank before I have to even think about reserve, so thats when I fill it up regardless...Build a habbit and you will never be caught short