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  1. #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeroIndex
    but how many litres is that?
    Google is your freind...........
    That's averaging 105kph btw.

    Edit- Not that I condone exceeding the speed limit and all that

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    welcome and congrats!

    if you havent already, try and get a topbox like what ive got.....impossible to live without! [IMHO at least!]

    i reset my tripmeter everytime i fill, and try not to fill until i hit reserve. however, if im going out of town, i fill at nearest out of town bp [sorry, loyal staff member, lol] think i used to get about 300k outta a full tank, but havent measured properly with the current price. guy i know works out of town, so he fills his every 220k, religiously.
    as others have said, you know youll need reserve when the bike misses....mine tends to jerk and jump a bit. you can get roughly 20k from reserve, so may pay to reset the tripmeter when/if you switch over.

    rode to paeroa earlier this year...these are my recepits from that trip: [wanganui to paeroa and back]

    bulls: $11.01
    taupo $10.00
    paeroa: $12.06

    rotorua: $9.80
    turangi : $8.48
    bulls: $7.75

    TOTAL: $59.10

    never let her hit reserve though, since it was my first proper ride and i didnt know the area, so filled when i had decent need to stop.

    my speedo broke on the return trip, so therefore i had no tripmeter and no way of telling how many k's since my last fill, hence lots of small amounts.

    also, beware on long rides that will be hard on the bike, your chain will loosen, rub on the guard and can come off [mine did a week ago after a ride to welly] so get it tightened as soon as you can hear it rubbing.
    also keep an eye on the oil, but dont overfill. if you dont know how, get someone experienced to show you.

    the gn is a pretty indestructable bike, so mainly just enjoy it! they run on the smell of an oily rag at times!
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    well on my old cb which was 12 lerters all up i got 300kms + if i did not hrash it but judge around 250kms for that piece of gn and move up to i bigger bike to lol u should get between 25 to 30kms to the leiter not thrashing it and it should not ge any worse than 20 kms when thrashin. when u run out on ur nornal tank or when it starts stuttering is always a good time and remember in ur case not to bet to much thurther than50kms froma petrol station when that happens ither.......... oh and welcome and have plenty of fun and remember as per from my experence nylon tires are only ok in the dry and a hell of a lot of fun in the wet haha

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    I normally start to lo ok for a petrol station when I get to 200 km on my GN, if you are riding it hard (that is if you can call it hard on a GN) then i only get 200 but if you are taking it easy it stretches 220-250 km max i find.

    One thing I would recommend is to go for a ride with the petrol switch turned off and experience what happens when you get 2 minutes down the road, you and you can also practice switching the petrol back on/onto reserve while still riding, its usefull to be able to do without having to take your eyes off the road

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    I want a Gn250 - I get 200kms if i nana it on a 21L tank
    Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot

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    Quote Originally Posted by Filterer
    One thing I would recommend is to go for a ride with the petrol switch turned off and experience what happens when you get 2 minutes down the road, you and you can also practice switching the petrol back on/onto reserve while still riding, its usefull to be able to do without having to take your eyes off the road
    Good advice! on any new bike you should memorise the location and on / res positions for your tap. Murphy being murphy and all that reserve usually comes in at the most inconvenient moment like when you are overtaking or negotiaing a bend. so you really need to know what is happening and be able to flick it to reserve without panicking or taking your eyes off the road.

    I also find after changing to res open the throttle a tad sorts out the spluttering a but faster.

    How far you go depends on your riding, I could hit reserve from 230 to 280kms on my beemer... and that was just on commuting, touring totally different again...
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    Quote Originally Posted by apteryx_haasti
    Also, another newbie question - how do you know when to switch to the reserve?
    When you come to a spluttering halt. One of worst feelings though is when switch to reserve and find out that you were on reserve already. Use the trip meter, know how far you can go until reserve so you can predict when you're likely to need to switch over and always check that you're not on reserve after you've filled up and before getting on the bike again.

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    i had a 2004 model and i used to get 190km before reserve, but i managed 220km before switching to reserve when i first got her. id say bout 200km would be average.. my bros650 managed 140k before reserve and my spada manages near 200k.
    i hate gn250s
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    Yeah well...

    Quote Originally Posted by ducatilover
    i hate gn250s
    I wanted a very nice Honda VTR but the auction went over my budget , and better a GN250 than no bike at all. Besides...it's only for a year or so. I think I can cope!

    Aside from that - thanks for the good advice everybody, especially checking out what it feels like to need reserve by riding with the tank off. I think I know what I'm playing around doing this weekend! Looking out the window now at work makes me want to go home ("sick") and go for a ride. I think I've got the bug, despite only having a GN250...

    Cheers!

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    Just found out my new bike dosent have a fuel tap... am detecting a potential issue here!
    I think I had better discretely put a fuel can in my wifes car
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    never underestimate the gn! i was gutted when i got hit by a car and my old gn was a write off. as i said earlier...ive been heaps of places on mine, paeroa, wellington and done about 7000k with not a problem!

    the old one, i even rode to levin and back....with no oil. and still she ran [albeit with a knock in the engine! LOL]

    better a gn than some pissy little nifty fifty. least your on a real bike.
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    Quote Originally Posted by apteryx_haasti
    Hi y'all. I just got my first bike yesterday - a GN250 - and I was wondering if someone can give me an idea of how many kms I can expect to get from the 10 L (I believe it's 8 L + 2 L reserve) tank?

    Also, another newbie question - how do you know when to switch to the reserve?

    Went for my first ride yesterday around and about the Hutt for about 2 hours...it was great!

    Thanks for any help or advice!

    Cheers.
    I bought a GZ250 in August 2004 and had the pleasure of running out of petrol on the north harbour bridge in rush hour traffic, so you could say a full tank on the GZ would take you 386k's, and that's shore (Long Bay) to city (Westhaven) commuting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by apteryx_haasti
    I think I've got the bug, despite only having a GN250...
    The bug doesn't discriminate between bikes and neither should you! Good decision, you're on a bike

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    Quote Originally Posted by outlawtorn
    I bought a GZ250 in August 2004
    Yeah, I test rode the GZ, didn't realise how nice it was until test riding something else, by which time the GZ had been sold... never mind... there's always the NEXT bike!

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    Personally I go by three methods:

    1) the humble calendar .... once a month make a pit stop but if riding has been light it gets postponed a month

    2) can feel roughly how full the tank is by the top heavy feel of bike when lifting it off stand or entering a corner. Only accurate for full, half-way and empty.

    3) the fuel gauge

    4) don't trust the trip meter, it can easily be reset


    Definite do ride off when the fuel purposely switched off and see how far you get. The FXR can idle for some while on choke and travel about 300m before stopping. 30m before silence it'll give a couple sputters. Then there's all the fun of priming the carb, getting it restarted and then running smoothly without choke A kitkat moment would be advisable.
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