
Yep, I would certainly underline the "Be careful" statement...
None of my motorbike or car engines every misfired and there was never a passage in the manual of any of my vehicles about technical issues either... - my Mercedes Benz manual just mentions to avoid running out of fuel due to possible fines by the police if it happens on motorways and longer walks to the next gas station in less densely populated areas...
What actually happened with all my vehicles in the past 15 years was that all of a sudden the engines stopped... - dead silence, that was all. A non event except in the few cases where it caught me unprepared but never unaware of the situation... - I would certainly not try to overtake someone with an empty tank.
I only had to walk once though... - unfortunately the fuel gauge of my BMW R1200RT (modern German engineering is roughly equal to third world standards...) quit one day and even though I could tell by the miles on the trip meter that something was off, it caught me by surprise.