Well.. one of those mornings

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So I go out to the garage, look at the trip on the bike and it is at 271 km, well I can normally get around 300 out of a tank and since it is only like 25 to work I say I'll get gas when I get there, well yesterday I rode a little fast and hot to beat a thunder storm home and I guess I used a little bit more gas than normal, it was fun, I beat the storm by like 3 seconds, anyway about 2 km from work the bike dies... Tank is bone dry. Started walking and someone stopped to give me a ride. I now have to bum a ride to the gas station and back to the bike. One of those mornings. I also learned I should get gas at the 250ish KM mark on the trip if I am reving the bike up on the ride.

Cheers
 
I only giggle a little because I've been there myself more than once. I ran out about 10 miles from a gas station in California once. Luckily I got a ride to the station and back
 
Shitty, Mike. But I have been in the exact same situation a time or two myself.

I really thought that I was going to run out of gas on my 400f while we were on the turnpike.
 
Ran out of gas on an old xs650 (all stock) once. About 15 blocks from my house. It was honestly over 95deg outside. Tried pushing up the hill to get back and almost died. Haha.
 
I didn't push her far, just enough to park her out of the road I could have pushed it all the way to work as it was on the flat but that would have sucked. I filled her up and it took more gas then I have ever put in her. Took like 10 cranks to get her to fire, I burned every scrap of gas in the whole fuel system. All good now, bike is parked at the office with a full tank to rip home with. It is nice so I may just take the long, long way home.
 
The shitty deal is I have a fuel guage but it goes from full to reserve then you can go fro like 80-120 km. You have to run the petcock in res all the time or it will stop working and you loose your reserve. Hence the religious use of the tripometer. It is a quirk of the design of the first gen GL. My old 450 was much easier, use run until it stalls, switch to reserve and find a gas station in 25 km or less ;D
 
I've used my CAA Plus (have to buy the higher end $100 membership for motorcycles in Canada) to tow my unlicensed bikes from one place to the other. Very convenient. I think I get 4 x 200km (120 miles) a year with it. Used it to tow my brother's minivan 170km into town one time when the transmission went. That one tow probably paid for 2-3 years' fees.
 
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