reserve gas capacity - 74 roadster - how far can you go?

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Lets not forget, this being an international forum, that some of us may be working with imperial gallons and some of us with U.S. gallons.
 
I've not seen an Imp. gal. in this country since my childhood.... so that places it pretty much up there with frog fur & 30 yr. old virgin prostitutes.
 
jbruney said:
I've not seen an Imp. gal. in this country since my childhood.... so that places it pretty much up there with frog fur & 30 yr. old virgin prostitutes.
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Although the Imperial gallon has been replaced by the litre/liter (anywhere not?) those of us not in your country still tend to think 'Imperial' when talking about gallons.
 
.....also noted 12.8 fluid ounces per minute fuel flow
reserve gas capacity - 74 roadster - how far can you go?
 
I wonder why the 1.2 never caught on here. I mean we kept everything else almost.
 
and then the Brits went metric, e.g. liters of petrol while retaining the mile rather than the kilometer. Then the modern Triumph
complete with metric fasteners. No more Whitworth or British Standard or even Cycle threads. Who measures kilometers per liter?
What standard do the Chinese use? It's our future.
 
lazyeye6 said:
and then the Brits went metric, e.g. liters of petrol while retaining the mile rather than the kilometer. Then the modern Triumph
complete with metric fasteners. No more Whitworth or British Standard or even Cycle threads. Who measures kilometers per liter?
What standard do the Chinese use? It's our future.
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Actually it's usually measured in litres per hundred km.

And pretty much the whole world uses it. Except I think it's the USA, Liberia and Myanmar???

Fluid ounces ????????? Now that's really weird.


I'm old enough to have learnt all that stuff. 1760 yards in a mile 5280 ft in a mile. 22 yards in a chain. ???? Chains in a furlong, 8 furlongs in a mile. 16 ounces in a lb, 14 lb in a stone.

But honestly. Metric is so so so much easier
 
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jbruney said:
I wonder why the 1.2 never caught on here. I mean we kept everything else almost.
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Not really a matter of catching on just that the USA uses the customary unit system.

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United States customary units - Wikipedia

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"United States customary units are a system of measurements commonly used in the United States since it was formalized in 1832.[1] The United States customary system (USCS or USC) developed from English units which were in use in the British Empire before the U.S. became an independent country. However, the United Kingdom's system of measures was overhauled in 1824 to create the imperial system, changing the definitions of some units. Therefore, while many U.S. units are essentially similar to their imperial counterparts, there are significant differences between the systems."


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Imperial units - Wikipedia

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"The Weights and Measures Act 1824 invalidated the various different gallons in use in the British Empire, declaring them to be replaced by the statute gallon (which became known as the Imperial Gallon), a unit close in volume to the ale gallon. The 1824 Act defined as the volume of a gallon to be that of 10 pounds (4.54 kg) of distilled water weighed in air with brass weights with the barometer standing at 30 inches of mercury (102 kPa) at a temperature of 62 °F (17 °C).[18] The 1824 Act went on to give this volume as 277.274 cubic inches (4.54371 litres).[18] The Weights and Measures Act 1963 refined this definition to be the volume of 10 pounds of distilled water of density 0.998859 g/mL weighed in air of density 0.001217 g/mL against weights of density 8.136 g/mL, which works out to 4.546092 L.[nb 1] The Weights and Measures Act 1985 defined a gallon to be exactly 4.54609 L (approximately 277.4194 cu in).[19]"

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lazyeye6 said:
and then the Brits went metric, e.g. liters of petrol while retaining the mile rather than the kilometer. Then the modern Triumph
complete with metric fasteners. No more Whitworth or British Standard or even Cycle threads. Who measures kilometers per liter?
What standard do the Chinese use? It's our future.
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Litres to be precise.... Sorry :p:rolleyes:
 
I have my answer. Thank you.

It used to be listed on containers. 1gal. US (.833gal. Imp.). Now liters.
We are waaaay off track, so I'm shutting up because my Norton can go further on a tank than I can ride without stopping anyway leaving me without a dog in this fight before I take it into the abyss.
 
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Come on Bernhard... There's national pride at stake here..
(I'd have a 'crack' at it myself, 'butt' I wouldn't wouldn't have the 'cheek' to make an 'ass' of myself!) And that's the bottom line...
 
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drp said:
I almost ran out my first week on the Commando but the bike sputtered right in front of the gas station. ...
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51 years ago, on what must have been about my third or fourth ride on my "S", I decided to have a look down a little unpaved lane (it was a "scrambler", right? People can ride them for hundreds of miles in Baja on dirt roads, It will be easy ... children are so gullible). I got about 1/0 of a mile (.16 km) down the lane with lots of foot paddling, the big Avon on the rear spinning anywhere the surface was smooth, and the little ribbed attire on the front rim catching on the tiniest rut so then I decided to turn around. The ride back to the hard surfaced road wasn't any easier -- and then 10 feet (3.39 meters) from the main road, the engine stopped. Quick look, no fuel in the pipe. OK, I said, the owner's book says to turn on the reserve. Umm, why is the reserve tap pointing downward already? I turned the reserve tap, knowing that it was useless - nope, no fuel in the clear pipe no matter what I tried.

Well, hell, dummy, *another* nice trick you've pulled. There was a small grassy hump to get over to get to the paved road and a slight up incline to get to that. With breathless pushing, boot soles slipping on the grass (no grass in Baja, right??), feeling as if I had carried the bike out on my back, the front wheel pops over the crest of that little berm and I look down the road. The way into town is actually a bit down hill - so subtle I'd never noticed, but a push out and it rolls, hop on and we're doing 15 - 20 Mph (23 - 30 Kph) coasting down the hill. After a mile or so, with no incident, I coasted up to a fuel pump.

"All's well that ends well but take a lesson from this", I thought. I was so relieved that I didn't even check on how much fuel it took to fill. That's OK, being a poor Uni student who had spent his life savings to buy the Norton of his dreams, I probably had only about 40 cents (3 bob, 7 pence, a ha'penny and a farthing at then exchange rates; about 32 new pence now), I could have filled the tank but I wanted to keep a nickel in my pocket to buy a Pepsi after all that sweating.

I've never clicked the gear selector into gear to set off without a check on the reserve tap since but I've never had to use reserve and I've never run out of fuel since then. "I'm an under-achiever, but I'm not stupid", Jake Harper, 2009.


(If any reader is familiar with the roads around Chapel Hill, NC, USA, this little stunt was about where now I-40 crosses NC 86, the road to Hillsborough. The downhill road was then "Airport Rd." now "Martin Luther King Dr." - a useful downhill stretch into town, indeed.)
 
EstuaryBoy said:
Come on Bernhard... There's national pride at stake here..
(I'd have a 'crack' at it myself, 'butt' I wouldn't wouldn't have the 'cheek' to make an 'ass' of myself!) And that's the bottom line...
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Jesus, my spell checker went to sleep. . . .not for the first time ! :(
 
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