Reserve fuel range?

[gjm]

No idea! Don't even know if the 'reserve' works... Fuel gauge got to within a whisker of showing empty - far left side of the red - this morning but hadn't gone on to reserve.

I don't brim the tank and when it is on sidestand it'll take less anyway, but I got $26 of fuel in at under $2 a litre. I think it is supposed to take up to 19 or 20 litres.

[F5 Dave]

I used to ride to the brass with a chap with an early bandit. Drove me crazy used to stop for gas every 2nd stop. My shitty RF flsahed its light on 3 gear changes from the petrol station and demanded reserve before the 5th. OK maybe 250km or something. Fucking annoying. Put a gas can in luggage and tried to run it out. Got to Invercargill then half way to new Mexico.

I took a saw to the reserve tube and soldered the sender an inch lower so it flashed at 280 went reserve at 320 and still had another 30-40k left.
I explained all this to him but still come 180 km he was filling up again.

Had to bury him in a shallow grave and say he reverse emigrated back to pomgolia.

[rastuscat]

Well I've not run my Busa out of fuel yet, and the furthest I've run with the fuel light on has been around 75 kms. If memory serves me correctly I trickled 18.5 litres into the tank, so in theory should have had about 2.5 litres left. Was the first time I used C mode as well... I find the fuel gauge kind of annoying since it stays on the full mark for the first 100-120 clicks then drops quickly, so I use the trip meter as a better indicator.

Ditto. I had a 1983 Kawasaki GPz 550 H3 back in the day. It had a fuel gauge which indicated full for the first 120 km or so, then emptied by the time I got to about 250. Bloody frustrating.

You'd have thought that if they were going to bother to put one on, they would have made the effort to make it accurate.

[insomnia01]

played around with my fuel range over anniversary weekend, topped up in Te kuiti ($20 had some in it already ) watched the odo all the way down & @280km dash started flashing ran with it to Bulls before the reserve kicked in ( dash stops flashing goes solid from what I've been told ) which read it @ 310km, filled up to the neck cost $34 @18.4ltrs so I should still of had 3.3ltrs running @ 17.1km/ltr avg not to bad considering it was 2up with luggage on a 06' ZX14