Don't run out of gas in Matata

[merv]

Well yeah you should have stopped before you ran out instead believing your mate?

[bogan]

You obviously don't ride a sports bike, ie no fuel tap and major fairings to take off to get anywhere near fuel pump.

Try doing that at the side of the road esp when you know there is a station just around the corner and all that was needed was a squirt of gas either into a container or a loan can with deposit.

I knew my range and had intended to stop at whakatane but mate took bypass and said that there was a station 11k up the road on his gps, 30k later.....

I have no regrets with my dealings with old bag, service station w/o any service.

Was the corner a steep as uphill one then?

Also, plenty of sports bikes have fuel taps and lots of hose. Additionally, plenty of farmers are good cunts and would just give you a bit of dino juice; although since abusing the lady that works in their town, word may get around, and they may not anymore. So fuck you very muchly, you had no grounds to go off at her like that.

[FJRider]

I knew my range and had intended to stop at whakatane but mate took bypass and said that there was a station 11k up the road on his gps, 30k later.....

From that turn-off ... Awakeri was about 15 km's away ... The Z station there would be hard to miss by a rider low on fuel ...

https://maps.google.co.nz/maps?q=mat...=12,175.5,,0,0

Edgecumbe was along that route too ... how did you miss that .. ??

[jasonu]

I can't recall if an FJ1200 is still regarded as a sports bike ...

About as sporty as a GN250.

[FJRider]

About as sporty as a GN250.

But I don't run out of gas ...




anymore ...

[Flip]

I have just had my spare gas can and its fuel ripped off by a plonker.

He ran out of fuel and the local station has closed. He borrowed my fuel can and never returned it. Well what do you do? I suppose next time it will be COD or fuck off.

[Kendoll]

Go easy on the old trout mate, it's probably been decades since she had a good shag

[EJK]

Well, on the flip side you had a drink of V.

[The Reibz]

Next time push the bike. Its good exercise, if it was exactly 1km you could have had it done and dusted in under 20mins, 15mins if you push it and under 12 if your the mannnnn. (7 years experience of lifting heavy loads over long distances to which there is no finish line - NZDF)

R1 isn't the heaviest of bikes but it still would be a good reminder not to run out of gas again.

[BigAl]

Next time push the bike. Its good exercise, if it was exactly 1km you could have had it done and dusted in under 20mins, 15mins if you push it and under 12 if your the mannnnn. (7 years experience of lifting heavy loads over long distances to which there is no finish line - NZDF)

R1 isn't the heaviest of bikes but it still would be a good reminder not to run out of gas again.

Would have been so much easier all round just to whip out a V bottle and dribble 200mls in when you've just topped up your tank, you would have thought

Lots of other options but that was all that was really required.

Good idea about carrying plastic hose though.

[bogan]

Would have been so much easier all round just to whip out a V bottle and dribble 200mls in when you've just topped up your tank, you would have thought

Lots of other options but that was all that was really required.

Good idea about carrying plastic hose though.

I've always thought carrying enough fuel to ride to the servo was the easiest of all.

Lots of other options but that was all that was really required.

[nodrog:Me]

My aunty isn't happy about you yelling at her

[Yamahardman]

I think your treatment of the elderly lady was a tad ott. I reckon a "don't expect my custom again" would've sufficed, if you were that disgruntled. I pushed my rd400 4kms home when it blew up, and it wasn't so bad, so 1km aint thaaat much.

I do have one pet hate with servos, however.
Their eagerness to fill your bike up. I once indulged them, and instantly regretted it, fuel on the tank, the seat, running down the pipes, ergh. N
Never again....

[SNF]

Oh bummer. I've run out a few times before thankfully never had that happen, customer service much? Easy to say don't run out when you have gauges and fuel lights. I don't have any of that fancy shit.

[russd7]

Oh bummer. I've run out a few times before thankfully never had that happen, customer service much? Easy to say don't run out when you have gauges and fuel lights. I don't have any of that fancy shit.

i dont rely on gauges and lights, i reset the trip meter every time i fill up and know roughly from how im riding how far i can go, have done that ever since the old xr i had when i was young, the only time i ran out was when a gas station i was expecting to be open was in fact closed and instead of turning round and riding back i continued on my way over the kaimais in the vain hope i might make it