Gasoline quality?
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AZ, more then likely it is poor quality fuel or the ethynol % is too high percentage, or water in fuel. Corn gas kills mpg. Riders and drivers under estimate the importance of fuel quality. Name brand fuel from a high volume station is the best plan. If you can buy pure gas in your area, regular or premium, your bike will run better and increase mpg. Can you run corn gas in you Harley, yes. Will it run better on pure gas, yes. Top tier fuel is a good investment. If I have multiple stations to select from, I choose Chevron, due to the Techron additive which is the most effective additive on the market.
Last edited by checkers; 08-28-2016 at 12:46 PM.
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Differences in Gasoline Quality
I had the same question myself about gasoline quality. Really the only way to tell for sure is to run a test, which I decided to do by trying different kinds of gasoline in my motorcycles. I did make a point to always run the recommended octane level, if possible. I started testing in 1971 and have run probably hundreds of different brands of gasoline through 19 different motorcycles. So far the only problem has been when a leaky petcock on my 441 BSA let gas dribble into the carburater all winter, causing a deposit. You more recent riders do know what a petcock is right?
I'll let you know when the results are in!
I'll let you know when the results are in!
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I had the same question myself about gasoline quality. Really the only way to tell for sure is to run a test, which I decided to do by trying different kinds of gasoline in my motorcycles. I did make a point to always run the recommended octane level, if possible. I started testing in 1971 and have run probably hundreds of different brands of gasoline through 19 different motorcycles. So far the only problem has been when a leaky petcock on my 441 BSA let gas dribble into the carburater all winter, causing a deposit. You more recent riders do know what a petcock is right?
I'll let you know when the results are in!
I'll let you know when the results are in!
God that brings back some memories, had one of those back in the early 70's
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You should try obamagas. It's supposed to be great for cars, bikes, rheumatism, backaches - pretty much whatever ails you.
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Buddy and I noticed our bikes seemed to be a little off in performance during a ride from Tucson to Bisbee. My bike was down in power and the MPG was way down. He has a 2010 Limited and had filled up at a Fry's station in Tucson and I had filled up at a QT. On the way back we stopped at a Shell and, for whatever reason, that gas seemed to wake up our bikes. My bike had better power and my MPG got a lot better. We're thinking we got some bad gas but from two different stations? Is Shell gas that good or the other gas that bad? Could we have been victims of a too low octane coming out of the high octane pumps?