big thanks to chris and mark from kickstart (rider school over in bethnal green)
i managed my first bike school boy bike walk of shame and now know my exact range of my petrol tank
i’ve got close once on my 748 and got a bit of spluttering as a warning, no such action on the r1!
i’d passed a petrol station up on the highway but as i’d just hit the 20 mark and was under the impression (wrongly) that i had a 30 res range, i figured i’d go for the asda on the isle of dogs as i dont have to get off my bike and was only a couple of miles
had just come into the flat section of the limehouse link tunnel heading east when everything died. bugger. coasted as far as i could, and pushed the last bit over to the exit up ramp to the island. figured sod it and locked the lid onto the back of the bike, and started pushing. i’d made it most of the way up the up ramp exit road when a courier type dude jogged down the last bit of the ramp and gave the bike a push from behind too and got it out into the open. he heads off promptly and was just contemplating whether it was RACtime or whether i should get the missus on a mission when another bike pulls up. apparently he and chris had spotted me but figured i wouldnt’ have been able to push it up the ramp so it took 'em a little longer to find me!
syphened off a couple of coke cans worth (chris carried some tubing with him, i’m thinking i’m gonna start doing the same, along with making earlier stops for petrol naturally) and i’m sorted to make it to the petrol station
pair of stars, greatly appreciated 
I saw exactly the same think in a petrol station in France 3 Euro… should have bought it just to post a picture 
