No Petrol Gauge - help

[adamski]

Another dumb noob question.

How do I know how much fuel I have in the tank?

Do have to reset the odometer each time I fill up my RVF400?

Cheers.

[bikemonkey]

Look in it.

You don't have to do anything other than switch to reserve when needed and find a petrol station asap.

Some people use their tripmeter to gauge when to fill up, I just take a quick look in the tank every couple of days

[adamski]

Fair play.

I knew the answer would involve an amount of common sense

[petrolhead19]

My bike tends to cough and splutter when it needs to go onto reserve so for me thats just a sign to reach down and switch it to reserve

[Delboy]

I just re-set the trip every fill up, when near 100 miles time to start looking for a garage

[krisztian_andre]

Reset the trip-o-meter (dunno what it's called) when it starts misfiring, switch to reserve and start looking for a pump. This way when you fill up next time you can calculate your fuel consumption by looking at the trip-o and dividing the amount of gas you bought with the miles/kms.

[whiskers79]

When I get a new bike I always run it until I need to turn to reserve on the first full tank. Remember the mileage. Reset the trip meter every time you fill up. I even do it on my car, and that has a reliable fuel gauge. It's good to know roughly how much further you can go before desperation sets in <g>.

[iDemonix]

As said, reset trip counter to 0, ride it until it stops. Remember that number - my NC30 is roughly 180. Then you can add 20 or so for reserve. This is KM's btw.

[adamski]

Great advice guys thanks

[hannakournikova]

Just remember to swith your tap back to on after refill or next time when it splutters you'll be proper empty ; )