New rider with 600 Bandit

Hi

As my subject said I am a new rider and own a 02 600s faired bandit.

I would be grateful if anyone could let me know of any owners clubs
especially local. I live in Norfolk about 16 miles from Kings Lynn

I also have a few little questions I could do with knowing until the garage
gives me my Haynes manual as the bike didn't have a hand book with it

Tyre Pressures front and back

Service Intervals

Best Tyre for the bike

and most importantly as I thought I had broken down the other day until I
realised the bike has a reserve setting on the tank even though there is a
fuel gauge, How many miles do I get on reserve?

I would be grateful of any information anyone can give as believe me I know
nothing about bikes and always said that I would never see the attraction of
owning one until Now!

They are great fun and I have never seen such a group of people so willing
to help out (when I ran out of petrol) and show an interest in everything
about bikes



Col

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, colinblake amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

36/42 at a guess but it's been a while since I owned one.

5,000 miles. Some people will say less. It depends how you ride and
where you ride it IMO.

Azaro3 or 020s in that order.

If you get to reserve then find a garage, pronto!

Welcome to the dark side.

 

As my subject said I am a new rider and own a 02 600s faired bandit

I have a 2004 600s.

Try http://www.banditownersclub.com/

33 front, 36 rear

Officially 3500miles, but the engine is pretty bullet proof, just change the
oil regularly

Bridgestone BT020

You probably have about 20-30 miles depending on how fast you go...

HTH

John
GSF600S

 

*Ding*

I've done that with most bikes I've owned.

 

John Allen says...

Disagree. Try the Avon AV45/46ST combination, they last longer than
020s and are better in the wet. They are also cheaper.

 

*Ding*

I've done that with most bikes I've owned.[/QUOTE]

I understood it wasn't a good idea to run FI engines dry as it could
bugger the injectors.

 

Never heard that one, and it sounds a bit unlikely, doesn't it? "Don't
run out of petrol as it will knacker your engine" wouldn't be much of
a selling point.

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Heard it with cars before, but the story is it will bugger the cat.
Overheats, or something.

 

Is there any truth in the premise that running a fuel tank empty, or
even very low, causes all the shit[1] in the bottom of the tank to be
stirred up and taken into the engine?

[1] "shit in the carbs"

 

rb says...

No, the fuel pipe is at the bottom of the tank anyway so its going to
collect any shit no matter what the fuel level is.

 

Hmm, I dunno. I remember my 750 not being a happy bunny for a while
after being run dry. I wondered if crap in the bottom of the tank had
bunged up the injectors a bit.

 

I can't believe that. How can it overheat if it's not burning fuel, FFS?

 

I understood it wasn't a good idea to run FI engines dry as it could
bugger the injectors.[/QUOTE]

Do I *look* as if I own a fuel-injected bike?

 

It might, on an old vehicle. But then fuel taps have filter screens in
them, right? Or all the ones I've seen do. And fuel pipes are frequently
made of gauze to act as a filter themselves.

 

Not on bikes with an old-fashioned reserve, it isn't. It pokes up a
couple of inches from the bottom.

On bikes with no reserve tap, then yes, probably.

 

Don't the fule pipes pick up from just above the level of the bottom of
the tank? The one and only one which I have replaced did that.

The fact that it has a gauze on it would seem more useful.

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John (jsp)

SV 650
Black it is
And Naked

 

The fuel tap on the Bandit does just this: sticks up inside the tank a
bit.

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John (jsp)

SV 650
Black it is
And Naked

 

Not generally. Don't forget that the injection side is quite high
pressure. Once the supply runs low it will generally die almost
instantly. Certainly gives you almost no warning compared with a
carb-fed motor.

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Exactly.

 

Not really. If there's any fuel in the pressurised system it wil be
injected - it's not like a carb float where it'll only pick up a part
load.

It's sort of inherent in the design, AIUI. Then again, I'm no
engineeer, so wibble flip do.

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