The power was off in Wilno on Sunday. I was a bit concerned. Luckily the grill and fryer at the Inn run on propane.
It turns out that Barry's Bay still had power, thankfully. So I still don't know the range of the KTM but coming home I got 235km indicated out of it and still had about 1/3 of a tank left. I can report that it gets better mileage at uhm... 5500 RPM in 4th, shall we say, than it does at under 5,000 RPM. That sweet spot in the rev range isn't just where the revs smooth out.
Still blows my mind that a 1301cc v-twin is getting anywhere near 300km out of a 17L tank. Especially with >180hp.
Classic case of computers making us stupid!
Back in the old days you never wanted to have to switch the petcock to reserve because it would bypass the filter.
Instead you simply made note of the milage when you last filled and stopped when needed.
One of the advantages of getting old is you have to stop more often for a washroom break so you fill up the tank while your at it.
I'm trying to think here... reserve petcocks give you the feeling of running out of gas, but you haven't actually run out yet, so I think I've only actually run out of gas twice. Funny enough both on a current bike, my TL1000S, which has a wonky fuel level sender (ain't no way I'm disturbing the fuel pump just to fix that). And one of those times was this year on the trip from my house, to a gas station
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Luckily the grill and fryer at the Inn run on propane.
