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    So I have a 2004 XB12S. I bought it last summer and by that time and whole last year I could do something like ~150 miles with full tank before fuel light came on. Bike stood in a cold storage over winter for 7 months (yeah, it's a long winter here in Finland). I didn't do any mods or change anything in ECU.

    Now I have taken it back to the action after weather is beginning to be warm enough. And the problem is, I can barely push ~80 miles with full tank before fuel light coming on.

    So can anyone give me a hint what's wrong with my bike? That's a pretty big decrease in mpg

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    Try running some Seafoam or the like through it. Hopefully just old gas... You don't have a pipe needing repacked do you?

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    Is that Seafoam some kind of a injector cleaning stuff or what?

    I think my pipe is ok, at least it sounds exactly the same as last summer. I don't know if Remus is repackable after all?



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