There will or should be one of our little pops or bangs before she runs out, switch to reserve when you here it. Just as an aside, I once put 11.32 litres or 2.9something US gals in the tank, it was just about overflowing at this and I may have riden 140 miles, the last fifteen covered in fear sweat.

I mostly ride back roads and seldom have anyone on my bumper, and the times I have hit reserve I can feel the bike start to slow and sputter, and I reached down and switch to reserve and within a second or two the bike is running normal.

I can see that if you were going 70mph on the highway and in heavy traffic........the minor slow down and delay would seem to be much worse!  At those speeds you would slow down quickly without any fuel going to the carb for 5 or 10 seconds while you realized the cause, reached down and turned the petcock to reserve.....and the fuel reached the carb.

LOL I had to switch to reserve the other day and it was on right turn uphill.  Felt the spudder as I slowed down for the turn, I switched it immediately but stalled for the first time ever switching to reserve HEH.  

Fuel sight gauge? Have not heard of how to do that.

BOBD wrote on 10/02/12 at 08:57:29:


You could actually do this by just putting a tee in the the fuel line and running a clear fuel line up to the handlebars.......but I can't think how you would do that in a way that would not look goofy.  You would have to have to turn the open end of the line down or have some form of vented cap to keep the rain out.

http://www.amazon.com/Kelch-54-1815-13-5-Gauge-Gas/dp/B002SA0SCA  Would something like this work? Not sure it's for a motorcycle though.

Put 2 gas cans where you would put saddlebags and put 2 gal gas can on passenger seat in case you run out of gas in the middle of nowhere. Maybe you can figure out how to run hoses to all gas cans and the carb. and not have to stop for gas for 300+ miles. You'd need a fuel pump of course. HA HA