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Old 18-08-06, 09:08 PM   #1
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Default I have in my hand a piece of paper...

That says I put 16.2 litres into my bike today... Still on the sidestand too so it had room for more. How does that work?

True, I did run completely dry about 50 metres from the petrol station Nothing quite like coasting down a hill to the pumps to earn you funny looks.
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Old 18-08-06, 09:21 PM   #2
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Hmm.. I put 17.5 litres into my Kwak today.. and there was probably a bit more room to go as well.... its an 18 litre tank.. and I had been running it on the fuel light for two days...
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Old 18-08-06, 09:25 PM   #3
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I've managed 16.5 in mine, but that was brimming it.
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Old 18-08-06, 09:26 PM   #4
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I was more chuffed with the fact petrols gone down to 92p than the amount I got into the tank
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Old 18-08-06, 09:29 PM   #5
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I was more chuffed with the fact petrols gone down to 92p than the amount I got into the tank
Sounds like crazy valley business to me! I'm consitently paying over a quid a litre, but that is shell optimax.
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Old 18-08-06, 09:31 PM   #6
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I was more chuffed with the fact petrols gone down to 92p than the amount I got into the tank
Sounds like crazy valley business to me! I'm consitently paying over a quid a litre, but that is shell optimax.
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Local Shell garage shut a while back as they werent selling enough petrol supposedly.. even though you couldnt get on the forecourt on a friday afternoon due to it being so busy there...
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Old 18-08-06, 09:33 PM   #7
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That says I put 16.2 litres into my bike today... Still on the sidestand too so it had room for more. How does that work?

True, I did run completely dry about 50 metres from the petrol station Nothing quite like coasting down a hill to the pumps to earn you funny looks.
Wasnt it you that fit a GSXR sidestand to get more fuel in?? I know it doesnt explain all of it!!
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Old 18-08-06, 09:39 PM   #8
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You water pump gasket may have gone again. I told you to be carefull

I win so cheque in the post please




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Dodgy pump. It's Scotland innit :P or did you wiggle it about. It seems you get more in by doing that
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Old 18-08-06, 09:40 PM   #9
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Well, to stop it from leaning over like a cruiser and taking up half the garage, mainly



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Half you garage already IS taken up northwind, with all sorts of crap that a man usually 'needs' from time to time!
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