I always work on the assumption of filling up within 50 miles of the fuel trip kicking in, which allows some leeway if I get a bit throttle-happy. I haven't run out yet in nearly two and half years with the Z following this rule of thumb, although I've probably given this theory the kiss of death now it's in black and white!

I tend to do the same. Works for me.

irrespective of riding style, my gauge would start flashing at 195-200 miles. I ran it dry once and got a further 70 miles out of it. As my daily commute was 120 miles, I'd always refill at the 240-250 area.

Huge Reserve
 

I wouldn't count on doing the same mileage, but here is what my Ten seems to do with the reserve. I reset the trip meter at each fuelling. The fuel light starts flashing at around 300 km's, I then do another 50 on average before refuelling again, and looking at my fuel receipts my average fill is 17.6 litres which means I still have 5.4 litres in the tank. Would be nice if it was a bit more accurate. Based on my average fuel consumption I should get 432 kms on a full tank.

Did 60 miles or reserve recently, not going much over 80mph, filled up, took 22.6l. That's my limit from now on.

Blimey, that was close.

At 60 MPH would have managed a lot more then.

Al.

I've never known a bike be so uneffected by it's riding style. No matter how I rode, my fuel gauge would start flashing at 195/200 miles...so I wouldn't think doing 60mph i/o 80mph would make a huge difference.

Good point,
My KLR 650 used to return fairly consistent numbers and that was new in 2001 and still had something called a carburretor!

Must be a big single thing.

Al.

I have done the run dry test and with my riding style it is dry at 50.7 miles. This was particularly on my mind when I rode back overnight from the Dragon with under half a tank and not a single petrol station open.
I got home with the fuel gauge showing 47.3 miles into reserve. It was so empty I had to go out with a jerry can the next day as it wouldn't start.

blimey that's a big difference to what I got. You must weigh a ton and/or ride everywhere at 100mph :112: