Riding to Spiti on my RE Himalayan 450: Had an interesting incident

I refuelled short of Lucknow, calculated that the distance to Agra was around 340 plus kms and set course.

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Narrating an interesting incident which happened to me yesterday.

I am traveling to Spiti with Bagheera on its first long trip. Yesterday the route was from Gorakhpur to Delhi. So, I took the Lucknow Agra Expressway and then the Yamuna Expressway till Delhi.

I refuelled short of Lucknow, calculated that the distance to Agra was around 340 plus kms and set course.

Enroute, I was shocked to see only two fuel pumps in the entire expressway till Agra, and those two also at an interval of approx 100 kms each. After crossing the second pump with fuel range on console showing 120 kms, I took a wrong decision and continued without refueling. Torrential rains after midway kept slowing me down.

I kept riding with yellow warning light coming on at 100 kms to empty and then the distance to empty kept further reducing.

At the exit toll booth towards Agra, the distance to empty was at 42 kms and the toll booth operator said it was another 30 kms to the next pump at Agra exit. Just kept my fingers crossed, cursed myself for the foolishness and rode on. Finally found the exit, descended, reached the pump with distance to empty remaining just 11 kms. Heaved a sigh of relief.

So, the good part is that the distance to empty figure displayed on the console is quite accurate. Though I won't suggest anyone to either experiment or replicate what I did.

With the reading showing almost empty, tank took in 15.3 litres to fill up to the brim.
So, practically unusable fuel would be around 1.7 to 2 litres.

PS : more details on the Spiti ride shortly in travelogue section.

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