Luiz
Junior Member
Other than laying my bike down once this was the worst ride.
I prepared with long johns, ski socks, ski gloves, jeans, sweater, boots, and a leather jacket.
The trip is from Boca Raton to Orlando. 189 miles. I make it in one tank. Well for anyone that knows the weather down here is in the 30s and with the wind even colder. After about 100 miles of uncomfortable riding I stop to get coffee. My toes were numb and hands were frozen.
I felt refreshed after the stop and then I see tank is empty and the reserve started clocking the miles. It reads 33 miles while I'm going about 100mph and I am getting a constant decrease in speed so I pull over on the shoulder of the highway and cruise about 20mph until I am completely out. (I've done this trip on one tank 6 times, I run out of gas at 39--40 miles not 33.....
I am at exit 198 and the next station is at 201. I push my bike 3 miles took about an hour and 10 minutes.
8 motorcycles, 5 police officers/troopers and thousands of cars pass. Only one person stopped and I was about 10 minutes away from the exit, so I thanked her so much but said that she didn't need to go home to get gas.
I feel it's an unknown law that cycles should stop for cycles. Is it just in America that people could care less or is this everywhere? I know in Brazil way more people would have stopped for me. It was 3pm on a Sunday afternoon it's not as if they had work.
Lesson learned, never letting reserve go past 20.
I prepared with long johns, ski socks, ski gloves, jeans, sweater, boots, and a leather jacket.
The trip is from Boca Raton to Orlando. 189 miles. I make it in one tank. Well for anyone that knows the weather down here is in the 30s and with the wind even colder. After about 100 miles of uncomfortable riding I stop to get coffee. My toes were numb and hands were frozen.
I felt refreshed after the stop and then I see tank is empty and the reserve started clocking the miles. It reads 33 miles while I'm going about 100mph and I am getting a constant decrease in speed so I pull over on the shoulder of the highway and cruise about 20mph until I am completely out. (I've done this trip on one tank 6 times, I run out of gas at 39--40 miles not 33.....
I am at exit 198 and the next station is at 201. I push my bike 3 miles took about an hour and 10 minutes.
8 motorcycles, 5 police officers/troopers and thousands of cars pass. Only one person stopped and I was about 10 minutes away from the exit, so I thanked her so much but said that she didn't need to go home to get gas.
I feel it's an unknown law that cycles should stop for cycles. Is it just in America that people could care less or is this everywhere? I know in Brazil way more people would have stopped for me. It was 3pm on a Sunday afternoon it's not as if they had work.
Lesson learned, never letting reserve go past 20.