How much fuel ? GSA

[elevensies]

I dont know if your Airhead has canbus? My 1978 one actually ran with only a few wires, many of the required attachments being made with a kind of metallic string, I did find the chain in that one, but I left it in, I like your comms ideas, I might try something similar myself, most of the time my home constructed tight string intercom is okay, though we find that the tension is problematic under braking, with care bike to bike is actually possible
Stewart

are we the only ones left who can diagnose this problem?

 

[Beetle2112]

well i have been told (may have even just thought this up) that bmw are to make motorbikes that dont have wires!!!!!! whatever next

I suppose they will just put a seperate resevoir for the electrolyle and still use the old canbus injection system but hopefully they'll wire it into the heated grips switch so you can add more or less electrolyte manually when climbing hills......
Well thats how I would do it as long as Stewarts' Canbus sensor will tell you the hydrostatic level and the co-efficient between that and the pressure at sea level a small bit of mental arithmatic should suffice without adding more weight by adding another computer

 

[elevensies]

I suppose they will just put a seperate resevoir for the electrolyle and still use the old canbus injection system but hopefully they'll wire it into the heated grips switch so you can add more or less electrolyte manually when climbing hills......
Well thats how I would do it as long as Stewarts' Canbus sensor will tell you the hydrostatic level and the co-efficient between that and the pressure at sea level a small bit of mental arithmatic should suffice without adding more weight by adding another computer

christ, i think your cleverer than Stewart

now stewart is clever on a scale of 1 to 10, as he invented something

but you are there, right at the cutting edge of something or another.

 

[Stewart H]

I suppose they will just put a seperate resevoir for the electrolyle and still use the old canbus injection system but hopefully they'll wire it into the heated grips switch so you can add more or less electrolyte manually when climbing hills......
Well thats how I would do it as long as Stewarts' Canbus sensor will tell you the hydrostatic level and the co-efficient between that and the pressure at sea level a small bit of mental arithmatic should suffice without adding more weight by adding another computer

Close, but no cigar Living in a hilly country as I do the thought of operating a secondary switch when climbing or descending hills did not appeal to me, after some thought I developed the barometric canbus compensator, this device delivers the correct dose of canbus fluid to the EWS correctly adjusted for engine loading and altitude, utilising a small servo to accomodate any lag, improved fluid delivery improves combustion across the range and traction is assisted in offroad situations simply by using the magnetic repulsion principles incorporated into the existing wheel sensors, well I thought that they were already fitted so why not exploit them to the full, an unexpected bonus was the reduction in "cogging" which is often felt when these bikes are stressed in the lateral plane.
Stewart

 

[Dale]

back to the question ....

Assuming that I should expect about 400-420KM on a tank, thats another 100KM to go!

Having just gone through this exercise myself, I found the following (2004 ADV) :

Tank totally empty to full (filler neck not drilled) is 31.2 liters. this with the bike on the center stand.
When filled, the gauge still shows 2 bars short of full
From full to yellow light on is 440km.
Yellow light on to dead is 65km.
So ... total "full to walk" distance is +-500km

Most of my driving is commuting style (60-80kph) with the odd freeway blast (130kph).

At more than 130kph or with panniers fitted, the consumption seems to rise by about 1 liter / 100km.

Dale

 

[flytoolow]

Range...sorry I asked..

...Should I have said "Timmys Rules applys to this thread"...??? LOL...

Anyway back to the question...

I had 400KM on the 03 GSA to Yellow light with 25.3 litres added to the tank...so 500 km looks acheivable....

Just added a low sargeant seat, the bike is transformed from being a great beast at the stop lights to a very useable bike - I may sell my K12RS...but that will be a very sad day...

Thanks for the comments...

...CANBUS electrolytes??? WTF?

 

[Beetle2112]

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...CANBUS electrolytes??? WTF?

LUDDITE !

 

[Beetle2112]

Close, but no cigar Living in a hilly country as I do the thought of operating a secondary switch when climbing or descending hills did not appeal to me, after some thought I developed the barometric canbus compensator, this device delivers the correct dose of canbus fluid to the EWS correctly adjusted for engine loading and altitude, utilising a small servo to accomodate any lag, improved fluid delivery improves combustion across the range and traction is assisted in offroad situations simply by using the magnetic repulsion principles incorporated into the existing wheel sensors, well I thought that they were already fitted so why not exploit them to the full, an unexpected bonus was the reduction in "cogging" which is often felt when these bikes are stressed in the lateral plane.
Stewart

 

[elevensies]

flowtolow, its not timmys rule on this one, its tammypacks rule, have a search and you will find out.

and whats wrong with CANBUS electrolytes??

are you real?

i bet if you drilled the underside of your tank you could get lots of petrol in at the petrol station. i no i would.