Petcock Valve Honda CBR600F4 1999

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Am I being a dumb ass... obviously these bikes have no fuel gauge (which is annoying), but noticed when riding for the first time, the fuel light was on. so, filled up with £20 notes of super and carried on. Then thought, hold on, there's a reserve on these isn't there as well? However, can I find the dial for switching to the lower reserve? NOPE...

Anyone on here tell me, how I get my bike on reserve OR is it like an auto system on these and it simply switchs itself?

God knows, what I wanna know is, how many miles I have when light comes on and then if I have a reserve, how do i switch it. Looked everywhere on the bike, can't find anything that looks like it. Can't find anything on CBR forums either just showing a damn picture of where it is. Checked the Service Manual, not even a mention>? Must have one as it's one of the last carb variants...
 
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Yeah... maybe it doesn't have one... certainly can't find it... yeah will probably post on CBRforums, just thought I'd ask here in-case someone knew as you get a quicker response here :-)

Looks like I'll just be resetting mileage every fill up and work out what this does on a full tank before light etc...
 
Seems weird my lads CBR125 has a fuel gauge.... would be nice to have one... hey ho, not only riding on the edge, living on the fuel edge as well rofl... good stuff...
 
well, filled up, reset trip A and when I got back, no fuel light on yet, 172 miles... and I know the fuel light works as it was empty when I filled up... that includes a fair few 3 digit runs... Mmmmmm... be interesting as this could be around the 60mpg mark?
 
Well, just to embaress myself, I decided to risk it, and not fill up today... bike was on 170 miles from a full tank BUT the fuel light still hadn't come on (I know it had worked last week due to it being on when I took delivery fo the bike)... so, left home to ride into work for the first time... guess what... 1 mile from M56 services ran out of fuel, no warning light nothing... just cough, splutter dead. AA brought some fuel job done.

So, at that point was 192 miles when it ran out from empty... now I know to basically when I hit 120 ish miles, just fill up :-( What an idiot... lesson 2 learnt, NEVER trust fuel lights lol
 
Nice one mate, looks like you're well into it... hence one of the reasons I thought I'd be biking in this week, weathers that nice... cannot waste it.

I should've used my head but I'd thought I'd bought a bike that ran on air... amazing I thought it's gonna cost me nothing all year around LOL. So, what you riding again, a 650 Ninja? Have aI seen a piccy of this one? if not, post I do love a piccie of a bike. Just been out to make sure Eric is ok, he's basking in the sun ;-)
 
Ahhhhh, I have seen him, yeah, remember him now. That's a very sweet bike. Think I remember saying I'm not a fan of silver cars/bikes, but in this case, I'll make an exception this time, think it really suites the shape. Them wheels powder coated black?

Bet that thing shifts don't it... hard to find performance figures, or ones that I believe, I've seen on bikerz.com or whatever it was stating, 3.2s 0-60 and 158mph on my F4... I belies the top end but that 3.2s not so sure about myself....

What's yours kicking out HP wise?
 
Not sure think it's a 17 litre tank which is what, 3.78 gallons so 192 is around 50.8mpg... but then again that's to absolute empty... so think it's more like 45-48 maybe in real terms probably... happy with that, seems to be hitting close to the 43-44mpg quoted!
 
Well got my haynes manual, so will double check this light switch as I'm 100% sure it was working and now ain't so... not that it matters really...
 
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