Good habit to get into, if you have use the reserve you have about 10-12 miles or 16-19 kms before you are pushing the bike riding very conservatively. You have to switch find a petrol station immediately, best habit is just fuel up frequently so you never have to find out what the real range is.

 

Even with a gauge and tripometer, if I'm running close and near a fuel stop, I'll switch to reserve beforehand so as not to chance "having to" while getting off the road and to the pump.

 

I know more than one that rides with the reserve on all the time.
Realizing the need and then switch to reserve in heavy traffic can get a bit hairy to say the least.

They keep track of miles real close. It's second nature to them nowadays .

WP

 

but there is the problem , how do you keep track of the counter of the last fuel stop , I am already a bit older and quickly forget lol , no seriously , sometimes I refuel , drive 60 mls approximately , put the bike in the garage , take it out a week later , drive some mls again , put it back away .... but how can I still know how much I have done from the last refueling?

 

Don't you have a trip odometer?

 

I have most times had a trip meter like Dr Hess mentioned. But since you said you don't have a reset that has me curious as to what you have.
Is a pic possible?

There was a bike I had that put me in the same place as you are..
I made sure it had a full tank when I parked or filled up before I left,
Find a way to make notes either on paper or nowadays many use their phones to keep notes for important

In your case I'd make a test run to see to figure an estimate of how far you can go before hitting reserve and then how far to empty once using reserve.

WP

 

In the chopper days long past, with neither gauge nor speedometer of any kind, we just opened the cap and looked in there...

 

Still works, chopper or not, street bike, dirt bike, etc... Tried, true, and proven, zero failure rate.

 

Dunno why it is but the simple **** sure does seem to evade most people today, it's got to be a gadget or complicated to to be right for them.

 

nope