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Old 05-05-2011, 01:10 PM   #1
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Hate to tell you, but on roadtrips there are more Harley's distance riding than anything else... seriously.
My point was, how many harleys are taken into areas that dont see a gas station for 200 miles? That number is probably very few.
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Old 05-05-2011, 01:13 PM   #2
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My point was, how many harleys are taken into areas that dont see a gas station for 200 miles? That number is probably very few.
You have clearly never ridden through Kansas...

But, I do understand what you're saying.
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Old 05-05-2011, 02:36 PM   #3
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You have clearly never ridden through Kansas...
what is kansas? Is that a first? It sounds like a crappy place people hope never to get caught
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Old 05-05-2011, 02:37 PM   #4
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what is kansas? Is that a first? It sounds like a crappy place people hope never to get caught
I've never been there...but seems accurate.
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LOL I coasted into a station once. I miss the old days of reserve. motor quits flip to reserve find fuel. easy system.

now days light comes on, eh, just means we're getting close, wonder how far I could go? hmmm light is really flashing now, wonder if it has another flash mode that is after this? CRAP nope that was the last flash setting LOL

mine even has a range thing on it now, I can tell you it is pretty damn close to right. LOL some people are slow learners.

Only time I've actually had to push one though was when I got caught w/o a license and he let me push it home. Old Hondas are heavy as hell!!! wasn't riding when he pulled up so I told him I had pushed it there to fuel up, girl in gas station was a friend and vouched for me that it was true. seriously I think he had the last laugh as he followed me 3 miles home.
Fuck flipping to reserve. I hate that shit.

When I had carb problems last year before I found a vacuum screw was missing.... the bike died about 1.5 miles from my house in my neighborhood. I ran the battery down trying to start it, so I said fuck it, and pushed it uphill all the way home.
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Old 05-05-2011, 03:41 PM   #6
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what is kansas? Is that a first? It sounds like a crappy place people hope never to get caught
believe it or not, there are parts of this country where you can drive for 200miles and not see a gas station.

How is it a bad thing to be prepared?
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Old 05-05-2011, 04:20 PM   #7
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believe it or not, there are parts of this country where you can drive for 200miles and not see a gas station.

How is it a bad thing to be prepared?
Its not, I don't think its a bad product, but I'm sceptics about its claim that ut doesn't emit vapors. Gas naturally gives off vapors, that's why gas cans expand when its filled. Add the fact that it is inside of a probably black saddle bag which is an oven in the summer, I just don't see how it won't leak some gas vapors.

I'm interested to see how it works out, so yes, please keep me informed. I'm just a negative minded person, and expect it to leak, possibly not during the first use, but eventually.
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believe it or not, there are parts of this country where you can drive for 200miles and not see a gas station.

How is it a bad thing to be prepared?
There are more gas stations KS than there are in west TX. Sign on the road even says, "last gas for 100 miles".

And what's with the KS bashing? There isn't jack shit in Iowa or Nebraska and nobody mentions them.
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There are more gas stations KS than there are in west TX. Sign on the road even says, "last gas for 100 miles".

And what's with the KS bashing? There isn't jack shit in Iowa or Nebraska and nobody mentions them.
These so little shit in those states that we dont have anything to talk about
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Old 05-06-2011, 01:45 AM   #10
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There are more gas stations KS than there are in west TX. Sign on the road even says, "last gas for 100 miles".

And what's with the KS bashing? There isn't jack shit in Iowa or Nebraska and nobody mentions them.
Yeah..Nebraska is the boring ass shit. No gas stations for a 100 miles easy.
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