Susuki Bandit 600 SK1?

Hi Guys,





I'm new to this group and would like to discuss a few concerns regarding my Suzuki Bandit.


I've been doing a bit of research as to why my bandit doesn't have a petrol gauge and it seems post 2000 models seem to have them apart from mine! Could it be the SK1 model part? After googling 'Suzuki Bandit SK1' models I noticed that all the pictures included 600S and not like my naked Bandit model - am I missing something here?!!





Also.... (Sorry) is it normal for me to only travel 140-160 miles on a tank of petrol? It gets a nit annoying when you're traveling on the A140 on a friday morning and you discover that your bike is running out of petrol after only topping it up on the Monday..........








Thoughts anyone?|||You're in the boating section:-D :-D :-D


But here's the answer: Your older bike is carbureted. That also means you have a reserve fuel position on the petcock. You should normally be riding on the "ON" position. When you start feeling the engine surge and run out of gas you reach down and turn the valve to "RESERVE". This gives you maybe a gallon of fuel to get to the next gas station.


The newer bikes are mostly fuel injected these days, so there's no longer a manual fuel petcock valve. They have a LOW FUEL warning light or an actual gas gauge. Pay attention to this! Once a fuel injected bike is out of gas, it is OUT OF GAS! That means you push, coast or tow back to a gas station, or get a ride and bring some back to your bike in a container.


If you do run out and wind up getting some more fuel, turn the key to ON or RUN and give the fuel injection pump a 10 seconds or so to draw the new gas into the system before trying to start the bike.|||You are in the boating section, sorry.