Around the area I live there are no gas stations that carry non ethanol gasoline. Recently I've been adding fuel conditioner that eliminates the effects of the ethanol additive in the gas. Using premium 93+ octane of course.


Looking for feedback on what you guys may be doing?

 

Same here in "green" NY, all the stations carry ethanol gas. Been using it forever, no additional additive and never a problem, cars or bike. Coming home from a recent road trip I stopped upstate and did fill up an almost empty tank with non-ethanol gas and got about 3-4 MPG more, kind of surprised in a good way.

 

Have never used any type of additive or conditions.
Never had any issues.

Depending on where you buy fuel, you might have Ethanol or Non-Ethanol.
I don't specifically look for non-ethanol.

 

 

Ethanol 10% additive in the gas hurts nothing. It's been around here for 20+ years. I work on all kinds of motor. It actually absorbs a little moisture (within reason). If you let anything sit long enough to dry the bowl, it matters little in what kind of gas it is. FI bikes do not dry out for years and need nothing added even during storage for 5 -7 months.

 

Unless you're preparing for storage you don't need any type of fuel additive. Harley made your bike to run just fine with ethanol gas.

 

Ethanol don't have the BTU's that Dino has and I buy dino every chance I can. Scoot runs better on Dino and like you said better mileage. Ethanol will not hurt your bike but an additive is good when storing your bike for months. My mowers, weed eater, and leaf blower only gets dino.

 

Good info guys. Thanks!

 

Non ethanol is available around my area but the extra charge doesnt make up for the added mpg. The only time I use a stabilzer is when Im storing my bike with ethanol fuel for over 4 weeks

 

I wouldn't think that the 10% e-gas would hurt anything. Surely by now the MOCO has designed their engines to run on it with no ill effects.

If the bike's gonna be inactive for a long-ish period of time, you might want to put a little Stabil (sp?) in it, though.