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Alcohol and gas mix
Certain greenies push the ethanol blended gasoline as a way to cut emissions as the ethanol burns cleaner. But you do get less fuel mileage so you end up burning more fuel for the same distance negating some of the clean air gain.
Some vehicles react to the ethanol blend more than others. A motorcycle is one that will react more severely than say a car will. My bike is a high performance bike so I won't even consider putting an ethanol blend into it. If you bike is a touch more on the performance end or has been tweaked, then that may account for your more severe reaction to the ethanol blend.
I'm not a scientist and I have done no technical studies to support my hypothesis.
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Thanks Peters. I am an engineer, but too lazy to look up numbers and do the math. I was on assignment for my wife and shouldn't have been looking at the internet at the time I posted my response. So had I been looking up info and been caught...
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Shortmagnum - I've got a 2000 Honda CBR600F4. Would rather have a VFR, but that was out of the price range at the time. I haven't had the bike running this year due to the baby. The bike is the last year they used carbs on that model. It has a bad tendancy to plug the jets and drop cylinders if it sits too long. I've gotten it running twice this year, but then due to baby needs, travel for work, etc, I don't finish putting it back together. So when I am ready, it's not running on all cylinders again. Sucks!!
But now that diesel jumped from $3.12/gal to $3.39/ gallon overnight, I think the F-250 is just going to have to make way for the bike. I don't have the time to spend to get it running to use until the snow flies, but at the diesel prices, I don't have much of a choice. I'll have to make time which means something else has to give.
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Shortmag - I know how fast the bike is. In 1996 I got a CBR600F3. Fun bike. But then in 1998 I moved to northern Minnesota. No hills. No curves. Roads just went straight and were flat. I dropped my garage door opener out of my pocket at 145 mph. I found the biggest chunk and it still worked. Then I sold the bike before I got killed or arrested. I knew what would happen.
I'm older now. And slightly more mature. At least I realize I am not invincible and I don't heal as fast as I used to. I also know there is a crap-load of suicidal animals that live near me. Me on bike vs deer = we both lose.
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