when are these bikes actually out of gas??

[jeffskar_imp]

So I was riding today, and for the first time I was on the last mark for the gas gage, and it started flashing. I take it to the gas station and only manage to get 2.7 gallons in her. Isn't the tank nearly 4 gallons? I thought it would take 3.4-3.7 gallons if it was low enough to flash.

[the_undecider_imp]

So I was riding today, and for the first time I was on the last mark for the gas gage, and it started flashing. I take it to the gas station and only manage to get 2.7 gallons in her. Isn't the tank nearly 4 gallons? I thought it would take 3.4-3.7 gallons if it was low enough to flash.

When it shuts off, of course!

I usually head for the nearest gas station when the dash starts blinking and I usually take around the same amount of fuel as you, 2.8 or 2.9 gallons. Either the fuel gauge is highly pessimistic or the claimed fuel capacity is optimistic. I am curious to hear if anybody has managed to get close to 3.9 gallons in. Some tanks don't allow you to use all of the space making them effectively a smaller tank. I don't care much to find out first hand.

[kmoney_imp]

I can get 50-60km highway once the light starts flashing. I've never really pushed it till dry, but even after a 60km run from flashing there is usually a liter left in the tank.

[Pterodactyl_imp]

Mate, Undecider has come up with the definitive answer and Kmoney is also on the right track. It's not how much petrol you've got left rather it's how far you can go before a sudden silence. And that depends on how you ride it. Touring I might get another 50kms from last bar flashing. City riding, or being heavy handed, I might get another 30kms. If you really want to know strap a can of gas to the bike and go for a ride.

Cheers

[activedirt_imp]

This last time I filled up I had some strange behavior out of my digital display. I found myself on a country road with no gas stations while knowing the distance to return to the last gas station was greater that what I had gas for, so I pressed on. The last rectangle on the gas meter was flashing but then the trip A mileage changed. It had, of course, been displaying the total miles since trip A had been reset, but as I got closer to running out of gas the mileage went from something like 150 down to 38.

I pulled off to see if I could use my cell phone to locate the nearest station. When I restart my trip this number then changed to 45. At some point this number change to ____ (underscores). I did find a station in time. Once I started going again after filling up the trip odometer returned to working as expected.

[Cormanus]

See [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=7003]here.

[noroomtomove]

Here we go, on the way back from Marlo this morning passing through Nowa Nowa the last fuel rectangle starts to go the bink. Between Nowa Nowa and Bruthen (30 km - 18.6 miles) even a Texan oil driller will find no gas, this also applies for the stretch from Bruthen to Bairnsdale (25 km- 15.5 miles). It's a long walk when the noise stops.

Filled the tank at Bairnsdale 11.6 liters 3.06 US gallons (on the side stand).

If Honda had designed the low fuel light for Eagle Buzz and Neil could have done a lap prior to landing at the Sea of Tranquility but then Eagles fuel economy was better than Saturn V's 7 inches to the Gallon.

Time to go outside for some domestic labour before sunset, getting credits for 5 days in October @ PI

Regards

[the Ferret]

This last time I filled up I had some strange behavior out of my digital display. I found myself on a country road with no gas stations while knowing the distance to return to the last gas station was greater that what I had gas for, so I pressed on. The last rectangle on the gas meter was flashing but then the trip A mileage changed. It had, of course, been displaying the total miles since trip A had been reset, but as I got closer to running out of gas the mileage went from something like 150 down to 38.

I pulled off to see if I could use my cell phone to locate the nearest station. When I restart my trip this number then changed to 45. At some point this number change to ____ (underscores). I did find a station in time. Once I started going again after filling up the trip odometer returned to working as expected.

Active... At some predetermined by Honda point, the guauge will go into count down mode with the amout of miles you have left to empty. This ususa
Ly starts at about 55 miles or thereabouts. Then inexplicably it will go to total miles on odometer. Then back to counting down the miles and so forth and then back to odometer. The counting down miles can be affected by how fast you are going. The slower you are going amd therefore the less fuel you are using, the further you can go on that fuel. If you switch modes to A or B it kind of messes this whole system up in my experience so just go with the flow. You can switch modes once you get gas.

At any rate I have taken my countdown mode into the teens and still had 1/2 gal of gas left over.

Between the pessimistic guage, having the odometer show up in the middle of count down is rather strange but it is what it is, and you just have to ride enough until you get used to the bikes fuel gauge idiosycracies so that you don't panic when things don't read what you'd expect them to.

Clear as mud?

[Randy B]

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[Lord Popgun]

Ferret, is this explained in the '14 owners manual? (I have a '13 for those who don't know or care ) I ask as the ST owners man. explains it very well. Or at least very well after you read it a few times!