Filling B1250 Gas Tank

[H2RICK]

+1 on the centrestand to fill 'er up....for the reasons stated by others.
If you look at the anti-overflow neck piece, you'll notice a small hole drilled in it near the top. If you want to be able to fill the last part of the tank faster, you COULD enlarge that hole somewhat.....although you would be defeating its purpose.
My neck piece still has the stock hole and I intend on leaving it that way. Yes, it takes more time to fill that last little bit of space but I'm never in that much of a rush anyway, even on the road.
With an absolutely full tank (almost to the top of the neck piece) I can  go for about 150 - 155 miles (250 kms) of "normal" riding on my SACS engined G3 before the low fuel indicator starts nagging me.

[SteelD]

Is this anti-overflow neck piece the reason why you can fill it above the plate, watch the fuel settle down below the plate, fill it above again, watch it settle down again, ...and repeat the process several times.

If so, it's annoying that an already small tank range is complicated by a safety device that hampers the tank from being quickly filled to the brim.

[Andouille]

Yeah, that is pretty much the drill, fill, watch, fill, watch. I had a BMW GS Adventure that was the same way, not quite as bad actually, but you had to cycle 5 or 6 times to get if full.  The Bandit is probably +10 to get it full.  There is a thread at advrider.com on how to drill out the hole so you don't have to cycle so many times, if at all.

Tim

[achesley]

I had drilled out the filler neck vents on my R1150GSa and removed the fuel canister. One problem I did have was when stopping and filling up for the night ( so I would not have to wait for stations to open in the morning ), the engine would heat the fuel up and let it run out the vent hose making a wet spot on the ground. I had to remember not to fill it up all the way.
I'll probably end up doing this to the GXFer 12.5.
An other thing on the R1150 was if you overfilled with the canister stuff still intact, gas would get into the canister and it would run really rough for several miles until the gas was cleaned out of the pollution stuff.

[Bandit1250]

How many Bandit riders does it take to fill a gas tank!!