Modern Buddy

Does buddy 170i have a low fuel light? I get concerned when scooting and not sure if i have enough fuel

No. Once you get all the way to the "E" for empty, you usually have a quarter to a half gallon left in reserve. Time to get some gas!

At least it has a fuel gauge.
I just cant understand why some motorcycles still dont have a fuel gauge.

Thanks im glad i asked

Im not sure if the 170I is the same way, but on my 150 the lower the gauge goes, the FASTER it goes. Almost ran out of gas once.

Raiderfn311 wrote:Im not sure if the 170I is the same way, but on my 150 the lower the gauge goes, the FASTER it goes. Almost ran out of gas once.

The faster the scooter goes or the faster the gauge goes down?

AWinn6889 wrote:No. Once you get all the way to the "E" for empty, you usually have a quarter to a half gallon left in reserve. Time to get some gas!

I meant when you get all the way to the far left of the empty section of the fuel gauge anyway.. since it is 1/4 of the entire gauge as it is.

My bf's 2009 Sportster doesn't have a gas gauge, but in that case you can generally tell by the mileage better than you could on the scooter. A large, heavy motorcycle is less effected by rider weight, gear weight, and generally isn't ridden in stop and go city traffic (at least in my area anyway), or if it is, it's ridden that way frequently and the rider generally learns quickly how long their gas is going to last them.

scootavaran wrote:At least it has a fuel gauge.
I just cant understand why some motorcycles still dont have a fuel gauge.

Because they have a reserve tank.

Raiderfn311 wrote:Im not sure if the 170I is the same way, but on my 150 the lower the gauge goes, the FASTER it goes. Almost ran out of gas once.

Hahahaha...baloney. We're only talking about seven pounds of gasoline here.

low fuel light lol

gotta peek in the tank

chasemcmorr wrote:Does buddy 170i have a low fuel light? I get concerned when scooting and not sure if i have enough fuel

If you pay attention to you mileage every time you fill up, you will also be able to tell fairly reliably by how many miles you have gone since last tank, unless you've done something drastically different like done a lot of 55+ riding, or taken a passenger for half the tank.

PeteH wrote:

Raiderfn311 wrote:Im not sure if the 170I is the same way, but on my 150 the lower the gauge goes, the FASTER it goes. Almost ran out of gas once.

Hahahaha...baloney. We're only talking about seven pounds of gasoline here.

Baloney....ummmmmmmmm....seriously, the RATE at which it goes down is much faster the last quarter(the red part).

Aahhhh, now that's a different story! It sounded from your sentence like the bike went a lot faster as you rode down the fuel!

Yes, I agree - I've also found the gas gauge to be non-linear. Once I cross the half-full mark, the gauge drops more rapidly. And yes, I _have_ run out of gas, thinking, gee, I was sure I had a quarter tank just a few miles ago, as I coasted to a stop with the needle on the peg. Now I'm more careful.

^^^^Sorry, the original post could be easily misinterpreted. I got caught in traffic at the start of the gauge being on red, and I almost got stranded.

Raiderfn311 wrote:^^^^Sorry, the original post could be easily misinterpreted. I got caught in traffic at the start of the gauge being on red, and I almost got stranded.

Uggg........
I've always been able to trust my fuel gauge, I feel that it is about as accurate as any fuel gauge I've had. It just took some getting used to.

That happened to me the other day, I knew I was low, got hung up in traffic on my to work planning to fuel up on my way home. I got to work and completely forgot about fuel
As I was leaving that afternoon I got about half way between the office and the nearest gas station, again not even thinking about fuel, I ran out........
Guess who suddenly remembered about fuel??

Oh, yeah, I'm sure it's quite accurate at the ends, meaning that full means full and all-the-way left indeed means empty. It's just in-between that's non-linear.

My current fleet of heaps all behave the same way - takes a good long time for the needle to come off the full peg, then the needle drops quite quickly once it hits halfway, relative to actual miles travelled. The Buddy gauge appears to be no different

PeteH wrote:Oh, yeah, I'm sure it's quite accurate at the ends, meaning that full means full and all-the-way left indeed means empty. It's just in-between that's non-linear.

I've actually ridden to work (12 miles-ish) with my gauge all the way to the left, because I forgot that I had en empty tank and didn't head out early enough to throw some of the gas in that we have sitting in the garage in there, and made it just fine. Thankfully, the closest gas station is a quarter mile from my parking spot... so I planned to gas up before I went home and ended up putting less than a full gallon in the tank. That means I still had a little more than a half gallon left, which is between 40 and 50 miles for me.
Maybe Genuine/PGO changed the way the gauge works, or what it considers reserve for the 170i, or maybe I have a funky one, or I'm just lucky... who knows. But I have yet to run out of gas, and am usually pleasantly surprised when I fill up after the needle has been on E for quite a few miles.

Non-linear was the freakin term I was looking for!! I swear I have a decent vocabulary...............