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xprof wrote:Today, at 248 miles, my bike coughed on acceleration. I wheeled into a gas station and checked the OBC: it said I had 80 miles to go, and the red light was not on yet. Being only 8 miles from home (and a nearby gas station) I hit the freeway. A mile or so later I began to lose power, even at a steady 55. As I entered the onramp the bike died. I swerved hard a few times, stood up on the pegs and bounced hard, and the engine started again as I right turned through the (thankfully) green light; the gas station was just ahead on the left, and I accelerated toward it. The bike coughed and died definitively! Luckily I was able to coast across the double-yellow and through a gap in ongoing traffic, and I performed a dead-stick landing at the pump, bone dry. The bike took 5.901 gallons on the side stand to the automatic shutoff. I think that's (a) a record for me, (b) a warning to not be so stupid, and (c) an indication that my second fuel strip is giving up the ghost. Back to using just the tripmeter!

Robert_California wrote:

xprof wrote:Today, at 248 miles, my bike coughed on acceleration. I wheeled into a gas station and checked the OBC: it said I had 80 miles to go, and the red light was not on yet. Being only 8 miles from home (and a nearby gas station) I hit the freeway. A mile or so later I began to lose power, even at a steady 55. As I entered the onramp the bike died. I swerved hard a few times, stood up on the pegs and bounced hard, and the engine started again as I right turned through the (thankfully) green light; the gas station was just ahead on the left, and I accelerated toward it. The bike coughed and died definitively! Luckily I was able to coast across the double-yellow and through a gap in ongoing traffic, and I performed a dead-stick landing at the pump, bone dry. The bike took 5.901 gallons on the side stand to the automatic shutoff. I think that's (a) a record for me, (b) a warning to not be so stupid, and (c) an indication that my second fuel strip is giving up the ghost. Back to using just the tripmeter!

I was enthralled by your story.