07-28-2013, 02:22 AM
(07-28-2013, 01:38 AM)Firstfour_imp Wrote: I'm of the mind that reading too low is better than too high, wouldn't want to end up pushing this big baby. And yes, I'm a one-bar panic. Really though, I'm just going by the trip odometer and not paying as much attention to the fuel gauge. Probably due to all the old bikes I've owned not even having one!
I hear ya, hard not to watch or look at the dang gauge though lol
Heres an old guys thing for you..on my early bikes we'd often unscrew the gas cap, rock the bike back and forth between our knees and listen to the volume of the slosh to see how much gas we had. If we did run out, we'd switch it to reserve. When that would run out, we'd often lay the bike down on the left hand side and slosh the gas that was stuck on the right side of the tunnel over to the left hand side, being as how the reserve petcock was on the left and in the early days they didn't link the two sides. Laying it over would get enough gas to the petcock for another few miles.
I actually don't miss those days lol