0k, so hubby and I decided to go out for a ride and go to bike nite down by the river tonite......

I knew and told him that I would need to get gas for the bike in like l5-20 miles.

So I follow him, mind you we DO NOT have any helmet communication system yet.

Im following him, and following him and following him...i wondering "where the hell is he going?"

we are traveling around 50-55 miles an hours on country roads, and it felt like the bike was kinda doing a rhythmic hesitation, not sure if it was wind or something else.........next thing I know..............nothing......no power..........so I figure Ive run out of gas, pull over, turn the petcock to reserve and nothing when i tried to start, turned the petcock to prime for a moment then to reserve and got going again.....it took awhile for my other half to realize i was no longer behind him... ???

I caught up, down the road a piece...but here we are in the middle of nowhere.....I knew I had like around .7 of a gallon, did find a gas station.....

NEXT TIME im running low, I fill up first before I go out with spacely sprocket............AND get some helmet communications device.....

anyone have one? cost? and distance that it works?

will def need this to do longer trips with him or its just gonna be less fun................

sue

I keep shorts and sandlas at the shop during the late spring through early autumn. I moved to western Washington to get away from this weather.

I run out of gas all the time. No biggie. Keep a 2 gallon can in the back of the truck (no fuel gauge).
-WD

haha, lmao, thats just too funny, i'm sorry, it probably wasn't too funny at the time, maybe "spacely sprocket" thought his big bad HD was just too much for your suzi   and figured you'd catch up,,,,,eventually or, perhaps the HD was too much for him, and he was preoccupied with all that ???
debby and i use hand signals to communicate, and i keep a pretty close eye on her. she ran out of gas on our 300 mile trip, during the last leg, 6 miles from the house. by the time i got turned around to see what the problem was, she had switched to res, and was fired up and rolling.
 from a hubby's point of view, we have you chewing in our ear enough on a daily basis   (lol) a little peace and quiet on a loud motorcycle isn't a bad thing   ,,, (maybe thats just me) save the money, and go for more rides i'm sure you let him know about his unattentiveness, and it'll likely not happen again
 birkenstocks in the bag sounds like a good idea.
i have my mind shape saver shades on, let the hubby bashing begin 8) lol

Don't know if this will work but I've been thinking about getting one for myself. It says it will connect to FRS/GMRS and cell phones, so that should allow communication between bikes. We already have the GMRS radios, we use them to communicate directions to each other when backing our boat into garage. Has helped save many an arguement
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I agree- switching to reserve is not the same as running out of gas. Running out means no-go.

I've only run completely out once in the alst 2 years of riding and that was on my 2nd or 3rd tank with the Savage this year before I figured out which way was up for the switch.

I know now.

I realize that with reserve you are not totally out, the purpose of the reserve for me is to have enough to hopefully get to you a gas station.

In our case, spacely sprocket had us out in the country in what felt like the middle of NOWHERE...we are in UPSTATE NY very close to the shawangunk mountains, beautiful country some of the best rock climbing in the north east!

It was several miles to the nearest gas station...it would have suc***ed to run out completely...........

was an interesting experience to feel what the engine was doing as it was running out of "available" fuel, that kinda  "chug thump, chug thump, chug thump" a hesitation in between the cycle.......I wont forget that feeling again and will know that I need to reach down and switch that petcock to resv...

Add another "thing" to my brains memory of stuff about the bike.  Hummm......what useless info can i get rid of in my brain for this more important stuff?????

I have a rule: always fill the bikes up just before I'm home. Don't care if it only needs a half gallon. It was hard to get one of my buddies to do that, until he ran out of gas on I-75 about ten miles from an exit one day. Since then he has followed the fill it up rule every time he rides.

azjay wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:06:

Yeah, I'm probably being (insert something that the forum software probably won't allow) since I ride everyday, and even with a 7 1/2 gallon tank I probably don't leave fuel in the tank too long, but since water is heavier than gasoline and does seperate out, I feel better using the reserve pipe to draw lower in the tank periodically.