Now I know how far the bandit goes on reserve!

[Pixie]

Yesterday I headed off up SH16 for a ride.The 2.5 litres remaining section of the fuel guage was flashing,but I couldn't be bothered going 5 km back to KKK
to fill up.
I took the gamble I would get to Wellsford.
As I got to the 70 Km limit zone on the outskirts of Wellsford the bike started to run on three cylinders.I had about 1 km to go to the Caltex but there was a rise to get over and I didn't fancy pushing the bike over it,so I slipped into neutral,killed the motor and coasted till the road began to rise.Then I managed to start it again and it just got me over the rise where I coasted down to the gas station.
It took 19.9 litres to fill the 20 litre tank

[vifferman]

Lucky.

I've run bikes completely dry a few times, and had to push them a few less times than that. They're friggin heavy, especially wearing all your bike gear. One time I had a meeting first thing in the morning which I missed becase pushing the FahrtSturm made me so hot (and I was wearing a coloured shirt, so the perspiration was really obvious) that it was too embarrassing to attend the meeting. So I waited in the disabled toilet until my shirt was dry.

On my last three bikes, I've usually not been able to fill to the supposed capacity of the tank, apart from once when I put in an indicated 0.2 litres more than it was supposed to hold.

Some bikes are sods to start when they do run dry.
The VFR750 had a fuel pump, but it only operated when the engine was running. VTR1000 had no fuel pump, probably for weight savings. VFR800 has injection, which is primed while the ECU self-check is running.

Heh... here's summat dumb if marginally .

Yesterday I was outside Colemans when I saw SpankMe turn up. I rode down the footpath (as you do ), pulled the clutch in and pressed the kill switch, so I could park it in gear. Cahtted with SpankMe (no, he didn't), and went to leave. Turn the bike on, watch the FI light, and it stayed on.
OK....
Took it out of gear. Still on.
Turned the key off. And on. FI light still illuminated.
Hmmm...
Put stand up. Then down. Turned key off and on. (Sidestand switch is part of the FI error code display thing.)

Still on. WTF?


Oh.
Oops.

Flicked kill switch to "RUN", and injectors primed, FI light went off.

I don't usually (in fact, never) use the kill switch, so I'd forgotten it would do this.
Just as well I didn't go into Coleman's workshop and ask for help, thus completing my idiocy.

[Pixie]

Lucky.

I've run bikes completely dry a few times, and had to push them a few less times than that. They're friggin heavy, especially wearing all your bike gear. One time I had a meeting first thing in the morning which I missed becase pushing the FahrtSturm made me so hot (and I was wearing a coloured shirt, so the perspiration was really obvious) that it was too embarrassing to attend the meeting. So I waited in the disabled toilet until my shirt was dry.

On my last three bikes, I've usually not been able to fill to the supposed capacity of the tank, apart from once when I put in an indicated 0.2 litres more than it was supposed to hold.

Some bikes are sods to start when they do run dry.
The VFR750 had a fuel pump, but it only operated when the engine was running. VTR1000 had no fuel pump, probably for weight savings. VFR800 has injection, which is primed while the ECU self-check is running.

Heh... here's summat dumb if marginally .

Yesterday I was outside Colemans when I saw SpankMe turn up. I rode down the footpath (as you do ), pulled the clutch in and pressed the kill switch, so I could park it in gear. Cahtted with SpankMe (no, he didn't), and went to leave. Turn the bike on, watch the FI light, and it stayed on.
OK....
Took it out of gear. Still on.
Turned the key off. And on. FI light still illuminated.
Hmmm...
Put stand up. Then down. Turned key off and on. (Sidestand switch is part of the FI error code display thing.)

Still on. WTF?


Oh.
Oops.

Flicked kill switch to "RUN", and injectors primed, FI light went off.

I don't usually (in fact, never) use the kill switch, so I'd forgotten it would do this.
Just as well I didn't go into Coleman's workshop and ask for help, thus completing my idiocy.

I've run out a few times.I've been lucky enough,a couple of times,to be able to cost downhill to the gas station.
I do the kill switch thing too.Duh
PS every disabled toilet I've used actually worked!

[vifferman]

every disabled toilet I've used actually worked!

Oh yeah - ours is great; it's all set up for wheelchair access and whatnot, but it's on the first floor of the building, and there's no way to get upstairs!
However, it's great for me getting changed in/out of my bike gear in at least two times a day, especially since I installed a coat hook in it, as it has lots of room, unlike the shower room, which is tiny and usally smells of sweaty triathlete / mouldy towels (one of our project managers).

[FlyingDutchMan]

You can normally only get the very last bits out while going up hill, as the drain point is normally at the back of the tank. I've run out a few times - once I had to coast about 8km from the top of the port hills to the end of colombo st (luckily all down hill). I used the brake very sparing on that trip!

[Lou Girardin]

Yesterday I headed off up SH16 for a ride.The 2.5 litres remaining section of the fuel guage was flashing,but I couldn't be bothered going 5 km back to KKK
to fill up.
I took the gamble I would get to Wellsford.
As I got to the 70 Km limit zone on the outskirts of Wellsford the bike started to run on three cylinders.I had about 1 km to go to the Caltex but there was a rise to get over and I didn't fancy pushing the bike over it,so I slipped into neutral,killed the motor and coasted till the road began to rise.Then I managed to start it again and it just got me over the rise where I coasted down to the gas station.
It took 19.9 litres to fill the 20 litre tank

You don't f'ing learn do you?
Like putting $10 in at Springs Junction then expecting to get to Nelson. Thank God for card pumps huh?