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Precisely once.
Motorcycles typically don't have gas gauges and my old ZX6R Ninja was no exception. They just have a petcock valve with three positions: off on and reserve. Reserve just pulls from a lower point than on does so you switch to reserve when it sputters and head straight to a gas station.
I was riding in lots of heavy traffic so I used fuel faster than normal and it started sputtering. No problem, switched from reserve to on... and nothing. The seal in the valve let fuel leak past the valve so it always acted as if on reserve. It was bone dry!
And I was stuck in the middle of a major interchange. Couldn't walk anywhere and nobody would stop. Called a tow truck company who kindly delivered the worlds most expensive gallon of gasoline.
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