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[Hoist!]

hoisty..

issat in St Cloud by any chance?

Nah, it's in Google!

No clue Scot. I found it in a search.

Hoist!

[Chief]

Here's another bar stool racer, turbo charged.

Somebody needs to bring a couple of these to Maggie Valley 2008. No release forms needed. 

[cuthbertss]

Nah, it's in Google!

No clue Scot. I found it in a search.

Hoist!

hmmmm

it looks familiar but it was quite drunk out that night

[Twolanerider]

I've thought about bringing extra fuel on trips but just don't like theidea of a flamable item like that in my saddlebags ,tour pak etc in the unlikely event of a crash. (sparks etc)

That's right.  A small quantity of fuel in a specialized sealed container covered under sweatshirts and rain gear is a much larger worry than a big container with a plastic lid right between my legs .

[Twolanerider]

I'd love to have an extra gallon or two and have thought about the little 1 gal plastic jugs too. The MSR bottles are neat, but at only 22 oz. I question the benefit unless you carry a six pack.

They make a 33 ounce bottle also.  Quart.  Half gallon if you put one in each bag.  Depending on fuel mileage that's enough to keep you from walking most times you'd run out.  We always seem to have pushed it just a little too far and find ourselves oh so close to the next place for fuel.  Half gallon of fuel is 15-20 miles at a minumum.  At the very least that's a lot less to have to walk.

[Twolanerider]

i cant remember where i saw it...
but i saw a bike that had a small beer keg converted to a fuel tank on the luggage rack..

that'd work

lol

Until some stoner walked up the back of your bike and drank your fuel....

[Chief]

They make a 33 ounce bottle also.  Quart.  Half gallon if you put one in each bag.  Depending on fuel mileage that's enough to keep you from walking most times you'd run out.  We always seem to have pushed it just a little too far and find ourselves oh so close to the next place for fuel.  Half gallon of fuel is 15-20 miles at a minumum.  At the very least that's a lot less to have to walk.

Yes, half a gallon would be great. Actually, all you have to do now is travel with someone with a six gallon tank and bring a hose. Half gallon each would be enough. 

[flyingwillie]

Regardless of tank size ALWAYS carry a syphon hose.  I know a guy (very well) who once, on the last day of a long, tiring 7 day trip accidentally filled his tank with 5.2 gallons of diesel fuel.  A fuel injected bike will travel exactly 83 yards, 16 inches on diesel fuel.  Having the hose corrected his brain fart pretty quickly, although starting the bike after refueling with gas is not easy.
Battery almost went dead before the engine turned over.   

[cuthbertss]

Regardless of tank size ALWAYS carry a syphon hose.  I know a guy (very well) who once, on the last day of a long, tiring 7 day trip accidentally filled his tank with 5.2 gallons of diesel fuel.  A fuel injected bike will travel exactly 83 yards, 16 inches on diesel fuel.  Having the hose corrected his brain fart pretty quickly, although starting the bike after refueling with gas is not easy.
Battery almost went dead before the engine turned over.   

This reminds of a "there I was, this is no chit story"

when i was a young LT, one of my Soldiers mistook a 5 gallon can of diesel for MOGAS ( red and yellow kind of look alike through a red lens flashlight)
filled a generator with diesel.

the young, immigarant mechanic trying to do the right thing is sucking the diesel out of the gas generator and spitting it out to drain the tank...

spewww speew  cough cough ....

hack hack

silence

a few minutes later same thing



lucky he didnt kill himself... 

you gotta love Soldiers

[46knuck]

I would carry a siphon hose long before a can of gas in the saddle bag. Just a bomb sitting there. I have seen more guys get a flat than run out of gas. I carry a can of flat fill  on long remote trips.

[miker]

I would carry a siphon hose long before a can of gas in the saddle bag. Just a bomb sitting there. I have seen more guys get a flat than run out of gas. I carry a can of flat fill  on long remote trips.

Can you post a pic of the Indian?
Heres my 35 HD, it always runs out of gas...and oil

[LRebel]

Yes, half a gallon would be great. Actually, all you have to do now is travel with someone with a six gallon tank and bring a hose. Half gallon each would be enough. 

My six gallon tank doesn't get me any farther down the road.....less mpg that my 02 with a 5 gallon tank   Range is about the same.

I ran out of gas several years back in the middle of nowhere (far SE Oklahoma).  Coasted in to the parking lot of an old abandon gas station.  There were several loggers that had parked their personal vehicles there while they were working.  I looked over in the bed of a pick-up truck and BINGO, there was a siphon hose and two gallon gas can in the bed.  I siphoned a couple of gallons out of the truck to put in my bike - put the siphon hose & gas can back in the truck bed - left a note with a $5 bill folded inside (gas was cheaper then) - and went on my way.   Pretty Lucky, huh

[Chief]

My six gallon tank doesn't get me any farther down the road.....less mpg that my 02 with a 5 gallon tank   Range is about the same.

I ran out of gas several years back in the middle of nowhere (far SE Oklahoma).  Coasted in to the parking lot of an old abandon gas station.  There were several loggers that had parked their personal vehicles there while they were working.  I looked over in the bed of a pick-up truck and BINGO, there was a siphon hose and two gallon gas can in the bed.  I siphoned a couple of gallons out of the truck to put in my bike - put the siphon hose & gas can back in the truck bed - left a note with a $5 bill folded inside (gas was cheaper then) - and went on my way.   Pretty Lucky, huh

Lucky you didn't try that around here. You'd get shot for just looking in the back of the truck. 

[LRebel]

Lucky you didn't try that around here. You'd get shot for just looking in the back of the truck. 

Trust me, I was looking over my shoulder pretty often, and had my story ready to spill if'n I'd got caught.

[ultrafxr]

Here's the luckiest 'running out of gas' story I've ever heard and it is true because I was there.  Riding out west a couple years ago with another couple who both ride Heritage Softails.  They were getting much better mileage then I was on my Ultra what with riding two-up and pulling my Bushtec.  Anyway he did not fill up at the last gas stop I made.  So on down the interestate we went for many miles until he said he was low on fuel.  No problem, exit coming up.  So we take it and come to red light and then have to make a left-hand turn onto a major street - six-lanes wide going downhill.  As we start out from the light and make our left-hand turn he comes on the cb - chit my engine just stopped, out of gas.  Well he coasts down the hill, crosses three lanes of opposing traffic and makes a left-hand turn at a traffic light at the bottom of the hill (green for him, luckily) and coasts right up to the pump at the Exxon.  Chit if there'd been a casino nearby we'd have headed right over 'cause his luck was running strong.