2013 usable fuel range

[the Ferret]

Thanks guys. I’ll shoot for 150 on my next tank. It’s the same range as the Bonnie so an easy figure to remember. I’m never more than an off ramp away from a station, but the ones near home are considerably cheaper than those downtown so I can plan my stops like I already do.

If you have to stop downtown, just throw a gallon in to get back to the cheap stations, but really what could the difference be for 3 gals of gas between the cheap places and the expensive places ...50 cents?

[peterbaron]

Ive often wondered how capacity of a tank is determined. By laser, by mathematics, full to the top with the bottom plugged and no fuel pump, or fuel pump intact filled to bottom of neck and then poured our siphoned out?

This may not satisfy you by 100% but IMO, during designing, for most common or regular tank shape, simple math formulas can be used by engineers to calculate tank volume.
Here are a few examples:

https://planetcalc.com/131/

https://www.calculator.net/volume-calculator.html

For more complicated and irregular shape, like motorcycle tank, math as well, but formulas are much more complicated/combined.... but now days, there might be special computer programs...

[GoldOxide_imp]

Yeah, 21st century modelling software packages can integrate over surfaces and determine volumes. This would also be popular with many 3D printing programs.

[Gone in 60]

Thanks guys. I’ll shoot for 150 on my next tank. It’s the same range as the Bonnie so an easy figure to remember. I’m never more than an off ramp away from a station, but the ones near home are considerably cheaper than those downtown so I can plan my stops like I already do.

If you have to stop downtown, just throw a gallon in to get back to the cheap stations, but really what could the difference be for 3 gals of gas between the cheap places and the expensive places ...50 cents?

If you have to stop downtown, just throw a gallon in to get back to the cheap stations, but really what could the difference be for 3 gals of gas between the cheap places and the expensive places ...50 cents?
Hey man, 50 cents is 50 cents. No joke, the Shell down the street from my LA job is over five bucks a gallon for regular right now. Nobody knows what particular mafia family it must be a front for.

But, at 150 miles per tank I can comfortably get from my neighborhood to there and back without thinking about it.

[Haggard Rider_imp]

On my '13, the furthest I have gone with the last bar merrily flashing red before getting to a garage is 124 miles, and then managed to get in just under 2 litres so a theoretical 'run dry' limit of maybe 150 miles but I wouldn't like to push it that far, 120 / 125 is my 'stress free' limit.

Fuel consumption has varied from 48mpg for one tankful to 57mpg at best

[Randy B]

On my '13, the furthest I have gone with the last bar merrily flashing red before getting to a garage is 124 miles, and then managed to get in just under 2 litres so a theoretical 'run dry' limit of maybe 150 miles but I wouldn't like to push it that far, 120 / 125 is my 'stress free' limit.

Fuel consumption has varied from 48mpg for one tankful to 57mpg at best

Imp or US gal?

[GoldOxide_imp]

Thanks guys. I’ll shoot for 150 on my next tank. It’s the same range as the Bonnie so an easy figure to remember. I’m never more than an off ramp away from a station, but the ones near home are considerably cheaper than those downtown so I can plan my stops like I already do.

If you have to stop downtown, just throw a gallon in to get back to the cheap stations, but really what could the difference be for 3 gals of gas between the cheap places and the expensive places ...50 cents?

If you have to stop downtown, just throw a gallon in to get back to the cheap stations, but really what could the difference be for 3 gals of gas between the cheap places and the expensive places ...50 cents?
Hey man, 50 cents is 50 cents. No joke, the Shell down the street from my LA job is over five bucks a gallon for regular right now. Nobody knows what particular mafia family it must be a front for.

But, at 150 miles per tank I can comfortably get from my neighborhood to there and back without thinking about it.

I thought it would never happen, but GoneIn60, that is about $1.50 U.S. per gallon more than the current rate in The Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario.

Typically, gasoline is more expensive in Canada ... Ontario for example, due to the government taxes, the most recent being a carbon tax. Current prices here are about $1.25 Cdn per litre or $0.925 U.S.

[Haggard Rider_imp]

On my '13, the furthest I have gone with the last bar merrily flashing red before getting to a garage is 124 miles, and then managed to get in just under 2 litres so a theoretical 'run dry' limit of maybe 150 miles but I wouldn't like to push it that far, 120 / 125 is my 'stress free' limit.

Fuel consumption has varied from 48mpg for one tankful to 57mpg at best

Imp or US gal?

Imp or US gal?
Ok, looks like mymemory was slightly off. I've gone back to when I was keeping a track of my consumption and what I've found is this....

MilesFuel (litres) MPG MPL Range
93.6 7.48 56.89 12.51 177.69
97.6 9.17 48.39 10.64 151.14
126 10.66 53.73 11.82 167.84
110 9.21 54.30 11.94 169.60
124 10.71 52.63 11.58 164.41
113 9.86 52.10 11.46 162.74
127 10.36 55.73 12.26 174.07

sadly this isn't going to format nicely, but you'll see from the range, we're looking at 150 to nearly 180 miles. Seems like I'm being a tad conservative with my refuelling, although, when ridden 'with purpose', refuelling at 120 or so is still a good idea!

[the Ferret]

Here is the spread of gas prices here right now around Cinti

2.64
BP (22 reviews)
2696 Madison Rd & Edwards Rd
Cincinnati - East
50m ago
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2.67
Sunoco (21 reviews)
7250 Fields Ertel Rd & Yorktowne Dr
Cincinnati - NE
3h ago
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2.67
Shell (38 reviews)
2700 Madison Rd & Edwards Rd
Cincinnati - East
15h ago
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2.68
Warsaw Food Mart (42 reviews)
3400 Warsaw Ave & Del Monte Pl
Cincinnati - West
4h ago
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2.69
Marathon (11 reviews)
5968 Springdale Rd & Daleview Rd
Cincinnati - NW
2h ago
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2.69
Marathon (16 reviews)
5361 Kennedy Ave & Highland Ave
Cincinnati - NE
12h ago
Icon Changt81

2.69
BP (25 reviews)
249 W Mitchell Ave & Kenard Ave
Cincinnati - North
54m ago
Icon Walterc118

2.69
Anderson Mini Mart (16 reviews)
Cincinnait-East

Over $5 a gallon? Gasp! Got to love Kalifornia

[Haggard Rider_imp]

Petrol (gas) is $7.50 per imp gallon ($1.65 per litre) equivalent over here, diesel even more.