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Here in Maine, the hardware stores have fuel called TRUFUEL in quarts. 92 Octane - ZERO ETHANOL, comes in a very sturdy can for which you pay a very sturdy sum, like $7-8/Qt. All I can say is that my small engines will sit for over a year and fire up like the old days. The two-stroke version cures chainsaws and weedwhackers of fuel BS. Good product.

 

Pretty sure BB was the only one offended. Actually, he wasn't really offended, that's just his brand of humor. Like the 7th gen fuel gauge/range issues...it is what it is, love it or leave it. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it if I were you.

 

Tanks Dave!

Analog floats in gas tanks have not progressed much since somebody invented the flush toilet. The readout may be digital but the float still floats.

Parked my Ford Exploder nose down on a steep hill one day. No fuel warning light was on. Jumped back in my rig and it wouldn't start. Thinking I was bit by the money pit again, I called a real wrench friend and whined. He told me to put in a couple of gallons of gas. Voila. No, I didn't push that damned Ford and the local Chevron does not have jo-jo's. Oh well...

Back in the daze, bike tanks were fitted over the main downtube and on most single carb bikes ya could slosh some gas from the side opposite the petcock to get going again. The fix for the great gas dilemma can be found at the local Walmart. They got little LED flashlights for a couple of bucks each. Toss one in a tankbag or I suppose one could fashion a lanyard and wear it as a magic amulet warding off the gas gremlins.

And for God's sake do not buy an old VW bug. No gas gauge! Come to think of it, I have two other bikes that don't have gas gauges either. OH SHIT! There goes my flashlight budget...

 

I don't care about gas gauge, actually none of my Buells had a gauge, just a dummy light. I do think I am going to pick up a small camping bottle and fasion it some way.

Just ordered my Z Bomb, should be picking up hard bags on Monday, next heated grips and throttle lock! Oh the maddness of modifications!

 

Anybody have a used copy of "Harley-Davidsons For Dummies" they want to sell?

 

It wasn't.
Fuel gauges on bikes aren't and were never as reliable as on cars AFAIK.
So just rely on your day trip counter. When mine hits 125 miles I go for fuel, period. Pushed this bike twice. It's a heavy sonofabitch.

No worries but the internet gods might be offended by two apologies in the same post. :smile:

 

Gas gauges are so over rated. All you need is a trip gauge clicker that you can clear upon each fill up...Thats all I-Yam-Saying :simle:[/QUOTE]

if it has a petcock with a reserve position.......

 

I do have a 2009 1125r Buell service manual I can now sell ! $5 bucks plus shipping, it cost me $60 plus shipping!

 

+1. I've had plenty of bikes that only had an idiot light. No way I'm relying that that. Even with cars that have good fuel gauges, I zero the trip meters on gas up. How else would I calculate mpg?

The VFR1200's fuel gauge is actually calibrated exactly how I would do it, if I were the Honda instrumentation engineer. It scales between roughly from 3/4 full down to 1/4 full. Above 3/4 full, I don't much care, since I have plenty in the tank. At 1/4 full, I only have a little over 1 gal left, so I really need to stop and gas up ASAP. The middle 50% is where I need to pay attention and plan for my stopping point up ahead.

 

If I was a Harley instrumentation engineer, I'd take a stick and a pencil ...

 

I have an EX-500 that I actually chose to use a non-reserve Pingel fuel petcock on. Its simple, elegant and no-fuss-no-muss, (wut-eva-that-means.) I had a situation wtih a vaccum actuated petcock that screwed up on the race-track on the same make and model, I think I ended up using a book of matches to correct the leaking, or maybe I had to go home.

Anyway, moral to the story, simple = better...I turn the fuel tap off when I stop, I turn it on when I wana ride, I think I picked up a few miles per hour up top because it flows more fuel.

All you needs is a double clicker for your odometer/fuel set up...Use a flash-light to figure it oot...you CAN DO IT...I dont need no stinking reserve...

 

i find the VFR 12 fuel gauge slightly amusing....trip meter is much more reliable

 

My FJR has a neat gas gauge feature I wish my other bikes had. When the fuel gauge gets down to one bar and starts flashing (.8 gallons left) the trip meter goes to 0 and starts counting up so you can keep track of how far you have gone on the last .8 gallon at a glance. When you fill up the trip meter resets back including the distance you traveled on reserve. Good fuel economy is one thing I will miss on the FJR (225 to 275 miles per tank). To late to complain now, as I knew about the relatively poor VFR range before ordering one. My old ass needs to stop every 125 miles or so these days so it works out.

 

All my Buell's have that same fuel trip meter. The light is also less anoying because it comes on yellow and just stays on verus flashing.

 

You want to see annoying. The 2006 ZX14 I recently sold put up a large flashing gas pump on the digital display when it dropped below a 1.5 gallon limit. You couldn't reset or get rid of the irritating display either. Very distracting at night. Kawasaki did away with this annoyance on my 2012 ZX14.

 

Can a guy buy one of these gadgets somewhere that I can wire into my SR500? I sold the Velo so I only need one. The SR has one of those funny round things on the front that looks like a clock.

 

Maybe the gadget was broken. Sure seems like a couple of bucks worth of gas would have been the way to find out.