[hillntx]

Riding home last night it was a cool 35 degrees I was roughly two miles from the house and ran out of gas.  Fortunately it was around 100 yards to the gas station and slightly down hill for most of it.  I need to check the connection on my fuel light since it didn't come on or blink.  I'm glad the RE is a light weight bike; it makes it easy to push.

[gremlin]

Sounds like you got a lucky break there !

[barenekd]

Get out the erasable Black Marking Pen. Makes a great trip odometer.
Bare

[motorat]

with the absence of a trip meter i write down my mileage and fill it up every 150 miles +- 10.

[boggy]

No reserve on the UCEs?

[Ducati Scotty]

No petcock, just the EFI pump on the tank.  The low fuel light is there but if the bulb burns out or the sensor dies, well....  So you see why people are adopting Sharpies and writing on the bars.

Scott

[barenekd]

I go 200 before I start looking for a station.
Bare

[GlennF]

You could always fit an old school Smiths with a trip meter.

No idea how you would reset the trip once the speedo is in a nacelle though

[Royalista]

Fuel gauges and motorcycles, it's a marriage that will never work I guess.
I'm a diligent adept of the PnP odometer (pen & paper).
Never had a gauge or warning light on my earlier bikes, nor did I ever feel the need for one. When finally I got a cycle with a gauge it felt as an unneeded novelty, and surely enough it failed soon afterwards.
A quick search on the net learns that those that have gauges or lights have complaints and the others just want them. It's tough to be a manufacturer with such a quirky bunch.
Now let's dream: getting rid of the LFS, freeing up a bit of the undertank entanglement; dressing up the MIL in the disquise of the ammeter, what do'ya say? ?

Now what does itches me, just out of curiosity, who and when came up with the first gauge on a motorcycle?

[Desi Bike]

one of my old bikes had a cork with a twisted strip of metal sticking through it as the fuel fudge . The  end that was mounted in the cap was the full empty needle. As the cork floated up on the twisted metal it turned the metal 'needle' showing the level. Only accurate while stopped. Simple but effective.

[barenekd]

one of my old bikes had a cork with a twisted strip of metal sticking through it as the fuel fudge

I had a couple of airplanes with those. Not 100% reliable either!
Bare

[GlennF]

I had a couple of airplanes with those. Not 100% reliable either!
Bare

The VVS (Soviet Air Force) had a variant of that, visible from the cockpit, in the wing tanks of Yak and Lagg fighters during WWII. Apparently they were so incredibly misleading most squadrons immediately painted over the gauges on the basis that no fuel gauge was safer than a dodgy one.

[Royalista]

but look what Desi Bike wrote:
quote: Only accurate while stopped. Simple but effective. :end quote.

It's still a  principle. And no electrics.