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jmillheiser wrote:complete and total BS. My CX500 had to be switched to reserve around 80 miles, you think 120 mile fillups are annoying try 80 mile fillups. Of cousre my CX500 only had a 2.8 gallon tank and you had to go to reserve after it used up 2 gallons of that.

That sounds about right. I am getting about 6 miles to the litre, but only seem to have a two and a half Gal tank (Imp)

Full tank to refill is under the 80 mile mark.

Loonette wrote:Will everyone please quit feeding the troll that is MotoF150. When you all start in with the name calling and cussing, then the mods have to go around deleting and editing. We can handle MotoF150 if he spouting out, but when everyone sinks to his level, then we have to address a much bigger problem. Thanks...

Cheers,
Loonette

sorry, wont happen again.



JWF

cool!

i tried diez's advice and it worked.

i probably fit a gallon more after the pump stopped already.

i'll probably get 160 miles from my tank now.

i better sure to fill it after 150 though. don't wanna push the bike ever again.

Brand new Super Sport Track weapon............. $10,000
New gear to match the bike..................................$700
Performance Ignition for even more power............$150
Modified shift pattern to enhance Racer Boy image...$20

Inability to fill gas tank.................................PRICELESS!!!!!

Add that to a picture of him pushing it down the road and the smile would never leave my face.

That is gold!

Mintbread wrote:Add that to a picture of him pushing it down the road and the smile would never leave my face.

That is gold!

it's embarassing, but i can laugh at myself too.

TechTMW wrote:Yeah Gompers, they have a bellows type of device on the nozzle (Sortof looks like fork gaiters) and it must be pressed against the tank so that when you are finished pumping gas, the bellows creates vacuum which sucks up fuel vapors back into the underground fuel tank.

Completely motorcycle unfriendly but good for the environment...

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Thanks for the info. We have the same type of nozzles here, but apperantly they don't work. They don't have to be seated against the tank at all. You can wave the nozzle around all you want and spray gas all over. If you were so inclined to do that.

I ran out of gas the first weekend I had my spirit..... I knew from the past though that most gas stations in NY anyway have the vapor cutoff, but I usually pull it back.... Unfortunately I only get about 120 before the reserve, so now I know around 100 start looking for gas....

On my Virago 1100, I go looking for a gas station around 185kms, (around 115 miles,) although I have gone over 210 kms (130 miles) before filling, biting my nails all the way to the gas station. (My reserve switch has never seemed to work. It's electric and the reserve is a separate tank under the left side cover...)

VermilionX wrote:

Mintbread wrote:Add that to a picture of him pushing it down the road and the smile would never leave my face.

That is gold!

it's embarassing, but i can laugh at myself too.

Hey, at least it was just a bike. Years ago I ran out of gas in my truck (thinking - I'll stop at the next station, I have just enough) in the middle of an intersection. Imagine one guy, pushing a truck, then trying to get it up the little hill into the parking lot.

To top it off, no one helped until I had it up over the hill and rolling on a flat surface away from the parking lot entrance