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Originally Posted by sendler
We are never going to have flow meters. We don't need flow meters. Motorcycles are easy to get really accurate fills if you try since you are looking right at the fuel, unlike in cars. Key word if you try. same orientation before and after at the same pump, fill until the surface tension of the fuel just washes over the fill plate or seam in the neck or whathaveyou of each bike the same way each time. And you can get accuracy to +- .003 gallons.
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That's basically what I was thinking. Everyone would need to use the same pump and the person (race Official) filling would need to know exactly where it was filled to before competing.
Arriving with a full tank allows for some variables. If the cycle has a full tank of non-ethanol gas the mileage is going to be somewhat better than if it was using gas with ethanol, so competitors could gain a little bit of free mileage.
In Land Speed Racing (LSR) if you are running "gas" you need to arrive with an empty tank and run the spec gas at the track to be legal to compete in a gas class.