Motorcycle Forum / General / Sportbikes / July 2006

I took off work today, since I have to get the Orange Crush ready for a
trackday tomorrow.  I decided I would head on over to the local software
factory for the lunch slide, and to pick up some donations for the event
tomorrow.

Well I went on the lunch slide, had an awesome spinach quesadilla,
picked up some donations and started home.

I got to within 1 mile of my exit and the motor quit.  I fired it up
again thinking, "come on now, it's less than a mile to a gas station."
The bike ran about 100 more yards and quit.

At this point I shook it a bit, and tried to restart it, but I knew it
was useless.  I never saw the gas light come on. Triumph guys always
complain about not seeing the gas light.  Well it's true!

I had about 175 miles on the tank.  It'll do 150 miles when I'm romping
on it.  It'll do 190 miles cruising at 80.  I looked at the mileage on
the tank and it was at 128 before I started back home.  I figured I'd
make it easily.  I guess I romped on it more than I thought I did
throughout the tank.

Many thanks to the WSP Trooper who called the DOT truck to get me a 1/3
of a gallon.  Also thanks to the 2 bikers who stopped to help.  There
wasn't much to do but wait.  It cost me about 30 mins out of my day.

1st time I've ever run out of fuel.