Dale, curious about the fuel gauge. How would you rate it's accuracy, i.e. when the last bar starts flashing, how much fuel does it take to fill?
Also curious about the distance to empty function. Does it seems realistic?
I did indeed experiment with trying to run the tank to empty about a week ago. Like I say, a lot of issues have preventing me from hitting up the forum like I would like to...
First, the "Remaining Range" function display... this is interesting feature, I would say it is slightly optimistic, but not excessively so.
When I ran the bike to the last bar, the "Remaining Range" showed something on the order of
49 miles remaining until empty. I continued an interstate run with the cruise set at around 72 mph indicated (an exact 70 mph according to Garmin). It wasn't clear to me if the remaining range display was going to be actual (total) miles remaining until I was out of fuel, or the remaining miles until I hit reserve (ie, last bar starts flashing), whereupon a "fuel" odometer would begin at 0.0 miles and start to count up. By the time the "Range" display dropped to about 21 miles, I figured it would run to 0 and then the last bar would start flashing, which would then allegedly have me a bit over a gallon (~ 1.2-ish or so) until true empty.
As it turned out... neither of these was the case.
A very short time after the fuel range dropped to 16 miles remaining, the last bar started blinking, indicating I was now into my reserve. The fuel range indicator would no longer display; a "count up" (since reaching reserve) odometer displayed in its place. I got off the interstate 6 miles later, and re-fueled the tank as normal.
I took on-board a noteworthy 5.3 gallons, went meant I (allegedly) still had ~ 1.3-ish gallons of fuel remaining. I find all this basically consistent with the wording in Owner's Manual, and interpreted the Fuel Range display to be fairly accurate, perhaps a pinch optimistic.
More testing is indicated to see if I get repeatable, consistent results.
