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Re: how many miles until you hit reserve?
« Reply #40 on: November 27, 2012, 01:37:24 AM »
Na, when your hitting fumes, it takes 6.15 to 6.19 gallons.  I've done both...

indeed. I went past the fumes  :-[
Bike stopped just one yard from the pump that my GPS told me I was going to find.
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Re: how many miles until you hit reserve?
« Reply #41 on: November 27, 2012, 04:01:05 AM »
That seems about right on a totally empty tank.  Running it low like that does not help the fuel pump.   Best not to do that a lot...
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Re: how many miles until you hit reserve?
« Reply #42 on: July 04, 2020, 09:38:53 PM »
Something rare happened today; never happened in all these years....  I hit reserve exactly when I went to fill it up.  It took 4.7 gallons to fill a little above the neck plate.

So this means I actually have more like 1.4 gal remaining instead of what I thought- 1.1.  And that also explains why I always seem to have more mileage than expected when I hit reserve.  (Not that I want to push it to sucking air and get stranded somewhere.... hasn't happened yet, thanksfully).

Note- although the tank is identical on every C14, when it hits reserve (first low fuel warning) might vary a bit from bike to bike.
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Re: how many miles until you hit reserve?
« Reply #43 on: July 05, 2020, 11:02:08 AM »
Two things,

(1) This has got to be a record, no?
2777 days between posts in the same thread? I think this must show how important that C14 owners think fuel mileage is.  :D

(2) Being a bit picky ..or perhaps persnickety...

Note- although the tank is identical on every C14, when it hits reserve (first low fuel warning) might vary a bit from bike to bike.
I think that the California emission bikes have an extra tube running through the tank so there is just slightly less volume inside those tanks.
I'm not sure that the reduced volume caused by that extra tube would translate to a noticeable amount of range, but the tanks are not identical and have different
part numbers not related to paint colors.
I like the word persnickety, I'm just not sure I'm spelling it correctly.  :)


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Re: how many miles until you hit reserve?
« Reply #44 on: July 05, 2020, 02:23:19 PM »
Yeah, and besides this is no where near a record- I have been maybe 60K, 70K, maybe even more miles since I hit 'reserve' (low fuel warning on  a C-14).

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Re: how many miles until you hit reserve?
« Reply #45 on: July 05, 2020, 04:07:45 PM »
This has got to be a record, no?  2777 days between posts in the same thread?

Just picked the most appropriate thread instead of unnecessarily creating another one :)

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I think this must show how important that C14 owners think fuel mileage is.  :D

Not really.  I don't care about mileage all that much, until it matters (like when running low on fuel). 
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