Posted on Thursday, July 06, 2017 - 09:39 pm:

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Before we leave electric solenoids I need to tell you there were a couple others on the bike that controlled fuel supply. It was a typically Buell simple solution (keep in mind that the choke control on the RS-1200, like the RR-1000, was a bicycle shirt lever and cable) to the nagging problem of fumbling for a fuel petcock. The Buell employed a pair of electric solenoid operated valves. When the ignition switch was turned to the “on” position the solenoid connected to the “taller” tube in the fuel tank was opened and the fuel system was activated. When the main fuel supply was activated, there was an illuminate red rocker switch on the left side of the bodywork that, when toggled, opened the 2nd solenoid, the one with the “short” tube and provided access to the reserve fuel supply. I fondly recall eagerly waiting for my Buell to run low on fuel and that fighter pilot feeling I got when I flipped the switch, it lit up bright red and my engine suddenly roared back to life. This was the type of Buell tricks that had most the rest of the world scratching their heads . . . . some saying “why?”. . .others saying “why not?”

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