Mine is carb'ed and has a petcock...

Hit reserve tonight to get me to the station. I put 3.745 gallons in a 4.5 gal tank, so that means my reserver is about .755 gal. I have calculated that I am getting 50.87 MPG, so in theory I have a 38.4 mile range on reserve.

 

Iamvery attached to mine.

 

On my 03, with the 3.3 tank, I get to reserve at 2.8 gallons exact every time and the longest I've gone in reserve is 32 miles. I did not run out so I'm not sure how much I could get out of it, 32 is probably the limit, or really close. I was really milking it, by the way.

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Guys, I've told ya a million times. Don't play with the big girls if ya have alittle tank.

(Sorry, bike is in the shop... and I'm bored.)

 

I did that more than once on my old (1960) VW Bug. [sm=headbang.gif]

 

I wish my bike didn't have a reserve. Then I wouldn't need to stop and turn off the bike to get that last 40 miles out of the tank. I reset my tripometer every time I fill up and use that as my gauge.

I've owned my bike for 6 weeks and I've only switched to reserve once.

 

I had the same experience. See my link below.

https://www.hdforums.com/m_2032002/m...tm.htm#2036204

 

Blue potato, why would you have to stop and turn off the bike to get the last 40 out of it?

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I was thinking the same thing.

 

Blue,
Switching to reserve sure beats pushing the scoot down the road. No mater how much chrome you have, it don't look cool pushing.
You need to practice switching from on / res while running. should take <2 sec (find choke, little forward & up twist 180 deg, ahhhh that's better,) - you might not have a safe place to pull over.