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Does anybody make Aftermarket Fuel Lights or Gauges for motorcycles that just have Reserve Tanks?

Is this even possible?

Thanks!
-Lee

I'm sure someone makes them. If not you can do it yourself.

My question is why bother? Your engine will let you know when you're low on gas and need to switch to reserve.

Agree with Skier. While there are sometimes good reasons to install backup or redundant systems, this is definitely not one of them. The petcock reserve setting is simple, reliable and darned near foolproof (as long as you reset it after using reserve).

Been pushin' that Kaw?

This summer the spouse was pushing his Kaw, and I rode behind him to the gas station and laughed and laughed....

But then last month I didn't go to reserve in time and coasted my Kaw to the side while a buncha Harley guys laughed and laughed....

Putting the bike back to "on" at every fill-up gets to be a habit, after a little pushing. Still, if there was a way to simply mount a gauge I'd do it. Don't see how, though, without drilling and tapping a hole and then having to re-treat the tank. Hardly worth the trouble.

coffee_brake wrote:Been pushin' that Kaw?

This summer the spouse was pushing his Kaw, and I rode behind him to the gas station and laughed and laughed....

But then last month I didn't go to reserve in time and coasted my Kaw to the side while a buncha Harley guys laughed and laughed....

Putting the bike back to "on" at every fill-up gets to be a habit, after a little pushing. Still, if there was a way to simply mount a gauge I'd do it. Don't see how, though, without drilling and tapping a hole and then having to re-treat the tank. Hardly worth the trouble.

haha. actually i did push it..bad thing was it ran out only like 80 Ft. from the gas station ....and the gas station was up hill

Reset your trip odometer to zero when you fill up. After a few tanks you will know how far you can go before hitting reserve.

Oooh...there was a Eliminator in the shop just the other day. That IS a little bitty tank, ain't it?

Oh well, the trade-off's worth it for that quick little beast, huh?
One ride on a big road-burning 7-gallon tank tourer like my Concours would show you the difference quick!

I just cant wait to get a new bike...mine's starting to get a little boring
But It's still REALLY fun
80 MPG!!!!

That first time you run out of gas in traffic is a bit perplexing, isn't it? Mine wouldn't have been so bad for me if I wasn't in the middle of a U-turn onto a busy Dallas street when the engine keeled over. At the time I was still getting used to my new bike and had just gotten the carbs cleaned and reset, so the I attributed the spitting and sputtering to that and didn't even think about gas. Luckily, I had enough momentum in the turn to get me into the parking lot of the gas station at that intersection. Took a while to unpucker enough to get off of the seat though.