Ha, no electrical this time....
Turns out, my nice shiny Omega Racer tank has less than 10km of reserve capacity. Imagine the fun of switching to reserve and thinking you have about 30km of range, and in less than 10 you are pushing your bike along a 20" paved shoulder on a fully guard railed 4 lane highway with cars zipping by at 120km/h just inches from your left elbow. Good times! Once the bike begins to stutter, you need gas, RIGHT NOW! This is really going to hamper my enjoyment of riding through the countryside at this rate. I guess I will have to modify the fuel pickup tubes in the petcock, or maybe switch the petcocks over from my other tank, but if memory serves, the boss on this tank is a lot smaller. I even had to take a file to open up the fuel delivery holes before the screen would slide through it. The workmanship on this tank leaves a bit to be desired, considering what I paid for it. The blind holes for the petcock screws were so filled with debris from the polishing process, I nearly broke a tap off cleaning them out before I realized the holes were indeed blind. That would have been a fun repair on a brand new tank.
Overall this tank has been a very underwhelming addition. Looks great, and no more worries about rusting out, but the cap has been a leaker from day one, it is nearly impossible to fill fully due to an unvented and long filler tube, and it scratches if you looks at it the wrong way. This bike may be going basic black again soon.
As an aside, it took almost exactly 12l to fill, and the trip meter said 196km. Rounding this out to 12l and 200km, we get 6l/100km, or 39mpg (US gallons). Not bad, but not great. I noticed my plugs are pretty sooty, so there is some tuning that needs doing. Where would you start to fix an overly rich condition?
Turns out, my nice shiny Omega Racer tank has less than 10km of reserve capacity. Imagine the fun of switching to reserve and thinking you have about 30km of range, and in less than 10 you are pushing your bike along a 20" paved shoulder on a fully guard railed 4 lane highway with cars zipping by at 120km/h just inches from your left elbow. Good times! Once the bike begins to stutter, you need gas, RIGHT NOW! This is really going to hamper my enjoyment of riding through the countryside at this rate. I guess I will have to modify the fuel pickup tubes in the petcock, or maybe switch the petcocks over from my other tank, but if memory serves, the boss on this tank is a lot smaller. I even had to take a file to open up the fuel delivery holes before the screen would slide through it. The workmanship on this tank leaves a bit to be desired, considering what I paid for it. The blind holes for the petcock screws were so filled with debris from the polishing process, I nearly broke a tap off cleaning them out before I realized the holes were indeed blind. That would have been a fun repair on a brand new tank.
Overall this tank has been a very underwhelming addition. Looks great, and no more worries about rusting out, but the cap has been a leaker from day one, it is nearly impossible to fill fully due to an unvented and long filler tube, and it scratches if you looks at it the wrong way. This bike may be going basic black again soon.
As an aside, it took almost exactly 12l to fill, and the trip meter said 196km. Rounding this out to 12l and 200km, we get 6l/100km, or 39mpg (US gallons). Not bad, but not great. I noticed my plugs are pretty sooty, so there is some tuning that needs doing. Where would you start to fix an overly rich condition?