Welcome aboard! I moved your thread to the Dual Sport section for you. This is where you want to post question on the storm. If you read through the Hawk Resource Guide sticky at the top of the section it will answer a lot of your questions.
1. You should run a minimum of 87 octane ethanol free gas.
2. Oil- depending on temperatures. 10W-40 for cold temp and 20W-50 for hot temps.
3. Your bike may or may not come with an inline fuel filter. If it does it will be on the fuel line going to the carburetor. There is a screen filter in the tank on the petcock so an inline filter is not really needed.
4. Air filter will be located under the seat in the black air box.
5. The tank is one big container and is divided by a hump in the middle of the tank that creates the reserve area. The petcock lever will be in the up position for reserve, middle for off and down for normal riding. Always leave it in the down position and switch to the up position when you run out of gas. If you leave it in the reserve position you will burn all the gas and will not have any reserve.
6. On a new bike i would change the oil after 200-300 miles. After that about every 500-600 miles. Wait till you get at least 1000 mile before switching to synthetic oil.
7. But most important, Never, ever under any circumstance ask opinions on oil. You might get banded.
