TLR owners

Gday all
Just a quick question for the TLR owners out there,I know that the tank
holds 17 litres but when does the low fuel warning light come on and how
many kilometres can I expect to travel before completely empty.
Cheers Spud.

 

"Spud" wrote

Have you considered noting the odo reading when the light comes on and
then seeing how much fuel it takes when you fill up. Borrow a friends
calculator if you can't work it out in your head. If your head starts
to hurt, ask your friend to operate the calculator.

Theo

 

Use the coke bottle method.

Carry a one little coke bottle full of petrol, ( dont fill it to the brim) ,
when you're coming close to low.

Also carry a little notebook and make notes.

When bike comes to a splattering halt , fill the bike with fuel you were
carrying and hope there's a servo within your 1 litre range.

trial an error, easy..

 

I think the last person to clean your coffee machine may have left some
caustic in it...

: )

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...

 

Brick wall?...

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...

 

Nah, its Harsh Week, remember???

;-)

big

 

"Doug Cox" wrote

I thought nobody is that stupid, must be a troll.

I was wrong.

Then again, carrying a coke bottle full of petrol in your pocket
is........... Do coke bottles and caps not dissolve in petrol? I had
to ask, never tried it myself.

Theo
Did you see that Clem, I was wrong.
Wanders off to clean coffee machine.

 

petrol has a dye in it so has faded from the UV light

same thing happened to my kero in about 1 week

 

Then again, carrying a coke bottle full of petrol in your pocket

Have done this a few times out of necessity.And of course to work out the
tank range on an unfamiliar bike.

Interesting also I've noticed is the volume variation between different
petrol bowser's(servo's). There's a BP not far from where I live and I
swear I can never squeeze more than 19.5 litres in the VFR tank.
Where other servo's I have no problem clicking it well over 20.5 litres.

Given the same state of residual fuel in the tank and the quality of fuel
the same, this has to point to a calibration prob. Who's ripping off who?
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If you going to use a plastic coke bottle, don't fill it up to the top.
And if you're paranoid about the petrols' volume expansion, drill a very
small hole in the top and tape a small balloon over it.

(Just have your story prepared in case you get pulled over by the
constabulary and they happen to notice the coke bottle sticking out of your
front pocket. "Excuse me Officer, Molotov ? No. Don't know who Molotov
is".)

vifer
97 vfr750
- where back in the uni days, used the bike's choke more to hobble that last
300 metres looking for a servo than to warm the bike up in the morning. -

 

Thanks Paul don't have a manual but you have answered what I was after.
Cheers Spud

 

Never underestimate the human capacity for stupidity.

Coke'll clean the rust from your tank...

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...

 

OK - you deliberately run out of fuel. So what's the remedy when you
run out of fuel at an intersection an get cleaned up by a bus?

Any handy hints?

Andrew

 

As someone else has already pointed out, he did say "splattering
halt".

In my experience you do get a few warning coughs. Some cars even have
them designed in. My older son has a Hyundai (yes, I know, I blame his
mother) Grandeur XG with every electronic bit of gizmo that they could
fit in. When the fuel gets low a light comes on in the gauge, that's
pretty normal. If you ignore the light for a while it will start
flashing at you. If you still ignore it it will cut the ignition for
one second every minute (unless you're idling) until you go to a fuel
station (or run out). So they're not very concerned about your bus.

Theo

 

Filled up at a servo in Albury and told the cashier to get the pumps
checked. Just put 20.5l into a 19.5l tank. She said, "Gee, you must
have been running low."

 

Keep out of the city!

 

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the
American people" -- PT Barnum

"Only two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not quite sure about the former" -- Einstein

big (#2 is probably mis-attributed, but pretty funny anyway ;-)

 

Cool - so your best bet is to avoid intersections and get yourself a
Hyundai - which I'm guessing would need a 2 litre coke bottle if you
wanted to test the fuel range. I'm learning so much.

My memories hitting reserve on the XJ750 were that it coughed a few
times also - but not with enough notice to get me out of trouble. The
first coughing fit was quite an eye opener (on a hairpin on Bells line
of Road). After that I always changed to reserve when nearing the limit
of fuel range and then started looking for a servo.

Andrew

 

Why bother ever switching your tap back to main tank? (If you don't actually wait for it to run onto reserve,
and only use the odometer) You're just wearing it out unnecessarily!

 

Theo Bekkers wrote:

Going back 10 years, reminds of the media expose' of a select few taxi
drivers who were found "adjusting" their taxi meters by fiddling with their
transmission/speedo drive sprockets.
Back in the old mechanical flip-over digit days.
Meter always appeared to be sealed as well.

vifer

 

Why would it ever need to be necessary to run a tank dry in order to determine
mileage? Surely you can measure it using the first litre of fuel burned,
rather than the last. Manufacturers don't keep tank capacity a secret.
Petrol stations don't keep the amount of fuel dispensed a secret. Never plan
to use the last litre of fuel. Never decide to skip this one and stop at a
petrol station in the next town.

Nev..
'02 CBR1100XX #2