First Gas Run

I've been practicing in the school parking lot and the side street.  Each step of the way, I keep repeating one or twice more until I'm sure I have the hang of it.  My 25mph side street goes up to 30mph the other way and down to another school and back to 25mph.  That was my next step.  It was a pretty quiet road.  Few cars, but not many.  I went back and forth between the two schools.  25mph still feels kind of fast, but 30 feels like warp speed.

What's nice about this run is that I start at stop sign, turn signal, wait for any traffic, then turning into road, shifting up, coming to a stop sign, then going straight for awhile, shifting up again, until I get to the next stop sign and go to the other school and repeat.

And the weather has continued to be nice.  I feel like I'm gaining more confidence and skill.  It'll still be awhile before I'm expert, but I feel like I'm doing pretty well.

Then after a few runs, my low gas light came on.  I've driven just 77 miles when it went off.  That was odd, I had expected to get way more miles.  But, most of those miles were super slow around a parking lot.  When they sold me the bike, they said the tank was full, but I didn't expect that and full could mean quarter full.  Or, it could simply be because I've been running it a lot of time but not a lot of miles.

The gas station was straight down the street I was going on, just another mile or two, not very far.  I paused in the parking lot and weighed my options.  I could go back home and fill up from a gas can, but I've done 77 miles so far.  And the gas station isn't far and is about the same condition of roads I've been on so far.  I decided to go for it.  Straight shot up the road and then two more turns and stop signs and even crossing a red light.  Also, at the red light, I was making extra sure to pay attention to all the cars and who is going where.  I paused a second once the light turned green as extra insurance.

At the gas station, I pulled in with the bike to the left.  But didn't consider the front leans in to the left.  It is manageable, but since it was my first time filling it up, I didn't want to get gas everywhere.  The gas fills up right in front of where you sat.  I made it through without a problem.  I only added about three gallons, the total was less than $10.  If only my car was that much to bring up to fill up.