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  • mriddle
    • Feb 2026

    #1

    Pingel petcock .. reserve is in the middle

    Recently bought a little Kawasaki Ninja .. with a manual petcock.

    On it .. the RUN position (I was told) is the center position of the lever.


    After not riding my Pingel equipped 1100 for a while .. my feeble mind transferred that information to it.


    Coming home from the Red River Rally, I filled up down there and when arriving home I neglected to top off as I normally would do.

    This morning .. riding to work .. I noticed that I had big miles on the trip odometer ..

    Shortly after .. I turned into my workplace .. to hear the engine die.


    In my driveway .. I noticed .. the little RES stamped into the PINGEL.


    Lesson learned
  • earlfor
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    Originally posted by mriddle
    Recently bought a little Kawasaki Ninja .. with a manual petcock.

    On it .. the RUN position (I was told) is the center position of the lever.


    After not riding my Pingel equipped 1100 for a while .. my feeble mind transferred that information to it.


    Coming home from the Red River Rally, I filled up down there and when arriving home I neglected to top off as I normally would do.

    This morning .. riding to work .. I noticed that I had big miles on the trip odometer ..

    Shortly after .. I turned into my workplace .. to hear the engine die.


    In my driveway .. I noticed .. the little RES stamped into the PINGEL.


    Lesson learned



    All the Pingels I have had and the one now on my GS450 are lever forward Off. Lever in the middle RESERVE. Lever to the rear ON

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    • Jethro
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      Ok now... why, pray tell, are you neglecting that beautiful, Pingle equipped 1100? You bring it back now!!
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