slightly off topic
 

lol too many traffic light GPs plus I did often find that WOT was a good place to be when making progress :). Rrobably why I felt the need for the bigger brother.

Once you last bar starts flashing you have about 7 litres of fuel left, which is just less than a third of you tank. If you reset your trip when you filled up you have about half that distance available to you (eg if you have done 160 miles you can do a bit under 80 in reserve). To add a bit of safty margin I'd take 10 miles off that, and another 10 if you brim the tank when you fill it, ie 60 miles in reserve in this example.

In practice I could always guarantee getting 200 miles from a tank (even when getting only 40mpg due to stop/start and short runs). My lest efficient tankfull (39.88mpg) gives me a range of 202 miles to a non-brimmed tank.

The closest I got to running out was after 192 miles (about 40-50 on reserve) I only got 21l in the tank (not brimmed) which means I had about 2l (or nearly 20 miles) left.

Yes. Down to one bar, then the bar will start flashing and the F-trip will start counting up from zero.

I reckon you'd struggle to burn through the reserve capacity in less than 40 miles in normal use. Tripletom did try it with a fuel can on the back, and got 50 miles to dry, and I'm sure he won't mind me saying that he's not one to nurse it along to conserve fuel.

I hardly ever fill up before it starts flashing, and if I'm just commuting I'll usually run 20 miles or so into reserve before I even think about going for fuel - but then I know where the petrol stations are, and doing about 200 miles a week I spend enough time stood in them as it is without filling up more often than I have to :D

Are your brakes siezed on? :D

Lol. Unfortunatly it's just the local riding conditions, I still get 60mpg or so when in the UK on decent lenghth journeys.
When I use my bike in Guernsey I'm usually commuting, so that's less than 3 miles per trip, from cold each time with the journey being fairly stop start (though less than in a car). Like many I like to abuse the throttle as often as I can (while keeping within the 35mph limit) so that does not help either. I think you'd be hard pushed to get much worse conditions for fuel consumption (but at least those 150 miles will last me a month or so!)

I would be happy if the f-trip was correct but that is not the case anymore.

Jami

Likewise mine, it seems to trigger early now, but again if I park it overnight it can 'recover' enough to reset it back to the normal trip counter (takes five miles I think) then 5-10 miles later it will trigger again.

Wierdness.

but wouldn't frothing result in teh opposite effect: having higher readings during / right after a ride and lower after standing the bike for a while?

Mine does it as well btw. Just like my TDM used to do. I just ignore it now. Just start looking for petrol after the F-trip shows 10-20km. Most of the time I ride with people that need to fill up more often anyway. Then I don't even get to the F-trip.

Could be the windchill when riding causing the fuel to contract that gives a lower reading. Then when you park up the lack of windchill and heat from warm engine causes the fuel to expand hence giving a higher reading.

BTW, I regularly run 40-50 miles in to reserve. Most was about 70 odd miles (Towcester to Guildford).

I Travel 120 miles a day. I fill up every other day at about 235 miles. That used to be 30 mile sinto the f-trip in the summer but is now about 40-50 miles now the weather has cooled down?

I get about 21-22 liters in but i do fully brim it so there is probably about 2 liters left.

It always makes it to the fuel station so i have given up careing now.