Someone didn't make the ferry ....

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by zymurgy, May 1, 2009.

  1. zymurgy

    zymurgy Guest

    Well, that'll be me :)

    Minor electrical problem, but it's fixed now.

    There's no way i'm crossing france on a Bank Holiday and a Sunday
    without a working fuel guage.

    Hitting the road now, should be a 2-3 hours behind the pack
    hopefully ...

    Paul.
     
    zymurgy, May 1, 2009
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    Alex Ferrier Guest

    Best 'give it beans', then.
     
    Alex Ferrier, May 1, 2009
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    Krusty Guest

    <boggle>

    Do you seriously not know how many miles you get to a tank?


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    Krusty, May 1, 2009
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    darsy Guest

    what?

    I've never trusted/relied on the fuel guage on any bike I've owned
    that had one.
     
    darsy, May 1, 2009
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    prawn Guest

    Quite. If the odometer is working, what else does one need?
     
    prawn, May 1, 2009
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    Ace Guest

    I ran out of petrol quite a few times when I was commuting on my
    Sprint ST with a knackered guage. Took Triumph over a year to get a
    new part sorted and do a recall for it.

    Anyway, the point was that I'd be doing about 100miles a day, meaning
    that I needed to fill up every two days or more often. But whether I
    could squeeze the extra mileage to do to round trips, or whether I'd
    have to fill two days out of three, made quite a difference, so
    clearly I'd try to do that, but sometimes I'd forget a bit of
    excessive beanage from one day to the next, resulting in the obvious,
    usually within just a few miles from the destination.

    PITA it was.
     
    Ace, May 1, 2009
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    BGN Guest

    50% of the bikes I've owned haven't had a working fuel guage but I've
    only run out of petrol once. Even on the late Tiger 955i I always
    used to fill up by the odometer and not the fuel guage.
     
    BGN, May 1, 2009
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    Switters Guest

    A memory. Try as I might, I just forget stuff like that, so I have to use
    the trip.
     
    Switters, May 1, 2009
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  9. I thought the V-Strom was horrid with 150 miles.
     
    michael bothe, May 1, 2009
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  10. You're not the only one to have had electrical problems. Next time
    he'll not let a woman hook up the jumper leads!
    You should be OK on the peages, surely?
    Has anyone counted them out?

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    Lozzo Guest

    A Garmin Zumo 550 with its own built-in fuel gauge that warns you 30
    miles before top up is needed, and then directs you to the nearest fuel
    station.

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    fear of having their motives questioned
     
    Lozzo, May 1, 2009
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    Lozzo Guest

    Versys, 190 miles minimum between fill ups so far. I have stretched it
    to 250 when I was running it in.

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    Lozzo
    Versys 650 Tourer
    Fireblade 929 (For sale)
    CBR600F-W trackbike
    SR250 SpazzTrakka,
    SR250 wivva topbox
    TS250C
    RD400F, somewhere
    I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
    fear of having their motives questioned
     
    Lozzo, May 1, 2009
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  13. That's come in handy a few times. One time though, it directed me to an
    empty field.
     
    michael bothe, May 1, 2009
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  14. Ahh, I had nothing to do with this one....!
     
    Beelzebub_on_Mac, May 1, 2009
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    Pip Luscher Guest

    I habitually reset the *car* trip meter when I fill up. I felt a bit
    lost when K returned the car after using it for a week, and hadn't
    been resettig the trip meter.

    I know that the Guzzi's good for 200 miles to a tank even though it's
    down to less the 50mpg from 55. Last time I filled the R1 I think it
    went onto reserve at around 115, but I can't recall what the Tuono
    manages. More than 100, I think. I generally assume a max safe range
    of about 120 miles for sprotsbikes, including some reserve use.
     
    Pip Luscher, May 1, 2009
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    YTC#1 Guest

    Wuss. Guages are inacurate anyway.
    You know how many miles to reserve (or should do) go with it.

    Oh, and UK cards work in French unmanned stations, no longer any issues
    crossing France on SUndays and BHs
     
    YTC#1, May 2, 2009
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    Higgins Guest

    Reserve tap works for me.
     
    Higgins, May 3, 2009
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    Pip Guest

    Deep ends, dunnit.

    Z may have an accurate one, or just know by being accustomed to it, just
    when the situation is getting a bit dodgy.

    My first Bandit 12 had an accurate guage: when it hit the top of the red
    it would require reserve within a few minutes - and when it hit the
    bottom of the red, it was, indeed, Game Over.

    If there's no reserve tap, he's a bit fucked without a guage, although
    tbh I'd have bungeed a gallon can to the bike and gone.
    I took Elly's bike (bless her little cottons) and enquired of her the
    range, knowing the 9R to be a reasonably economical bike with a decent-
    sized tank. She used to get 200+ miles out of it commuting up the M1 to
    Northampton. Allowing for the probable difference in our riding styles
    and speeds likely to be required down the autoroute, I thought filling
    up at 150 to be a Good Idea. As it happened, we hit the 100 mile
    interval pretty closely just about every time - until the final leg up
    the peage to Calais, when reserve was required at 116 miles.

    Lashing up the road on a continuously wide throttle opening makes a
    biggish difference, then.
    Not all of them. The machines that demand cards issued by French banks
    only are a bit of a spoiler.
     
    Pip, May 3, 2009
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  19. And so we discovered. It's only taken the Frogs a decade to sort out.
     
    The Older Gentleman, May 4, 2009
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    Hog Guest

    Uh Huh
     
    Hog, May 4, 2009
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