When do you start to get nervous?
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I was riding home from Summerville this afternoon. I usually stop for gas around 100-125 on the odometer, but I let it go a little longer. I know my bike gets pretty good mileage, but I start to get nervous after 125. I don't trust my fuel guage at all (especially after the tank lift). I finially got to a gas station with about 145 on the tank. I was sweating a bit by then. It took 3 gallons to fill the tank. I don't know why it worries me so much. It just does.
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I get nervous when I see a little kid (6-7 years old) filling up Mom’s gas tank
while she's on a cell phone, smoking a cigarette and Dad’s adjusting the boom box.
So I was glad I could go a few more miles (200 on trip meter) to get gas else ware.
while she's on a cell phone, smoking a cigarette and Dad’s adjusting the boom box.
So I was glad I could go a few more miles (200 on trip meter) to get gas else ware.
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Around here, sometimes those corners are a pretty far apart!
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I know fill up when I hit 125 or so.MikeM
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On my '03 FXST it makes me nervous when the light comes on, but I've noticed that when it first starts coming on, it'll go on and off for a while depending on whether I'm going up a hill or down a hill, around corners, accelerating hard or braking hard. I don't start looking for a gas station until the light stays on. Even then it's rare that I'll put in more than 4 gallons. I figure for my bike when the light comes on and stays on I have around 40 miles (plus or minus a few) of freeway riding to find a gas station. From what I've read it can really vary from bike to bike though. I'd say either adjust it yourself or have the dealer adjust it so that the light doesn't come on quite as soon if it's bothering you so much and it's coming on with 2 gallons of gas still to go.
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