.....but where you run out of gas. What a freaking great day here in sunny New Jersey. I was thinking about it last night while watching the weather, and got up early for a blast. I was enjoying myself so much that I forgot where my mileage was when I filled up yesterday. Rode out by the farms, miles away from any gas stations. Enjoying the change of temperature, the smell of fresh cut grass while wearing only a t-shirt and leather. Very liberating ride without all of that cold weather clothing. Yeah a nice day.

Headed on back, and hit the main highway. While sitting at a red light, heard that familiar sputter and then, dead. Pulled over, switched to reserve, fired back up. I looked to my left to check for traffic and saw a gas station sitting on the corner across the highway. Bike took over two gallons. Sure, I could have gone a few more miles on reserve but how much fun would that be. Maybe I'll buy a lottery ticket today. I know, I know, my time is gonna come......again. Had it been an hour earlier I would probably still be in the sun, but sitting on the side of the road waiting for fuel. But for today, I'm just going to enjoy my good luck. 

So true.  

The first time it happened to me I was out in the farm land; no traffic in sight, gas station less than 5 miles away.

The second time I was on a highway, but again, there happened to be no traffic behind or near me, there was a place to pull-off 20 yards away as I was slowing down and I coasted to it, gas station 1/2 mile away.

I don't know what I would do in a populated traffic scenario.

T Mack 1 - FSO wrote on 04/18/08 at 13:17:33:


Right, but so far I guess I've not been quick enough with the switch.  Actually the switch is pretty tight and when I tried to get there fast enough while riding I wasn't able to do it before the bike died.  Must be because I don't often need to fiddle with the pet-cork/thingy and the bike is only 10 months old.

Can you not just switch to reserve while moving and have the engine restart from the motion of the gears?

 littlebird did you try carb cleaner like Seaform in t he gas

I like to ride out in the sticks a lot. At 100 miles I start looking for a gas station, when I switch to reserve I will go out of my way to get to a town within 20 miles.

I run mine out almost every tank. The weird thing is, when I ran out at a stop light one morning, the idle went UP. It was choked at the time. Another time it just died when I tried to pull away. Usually it will start to sputter a bit and I just switch it over.

I've had my bike for almost 900 miles and be the the reserve 3 times. but  since I have only used it for commuting to work it's no big deal. Sooner or later that habit is going to bit my backside when I take a trip out of town.