As soon as I get those two parts replaced on the bike I plan on draining out the remaining gas and switching to non-ethanol gas. Since I don't ride as much I won't need to worry about the gas going 'sour' and having to use a stabilizer. I found a corner store a few miles from my home where I can buy it for $3.65/gallon. I'll also be using it in the lawn mower and pressure washer and the generator I bought in the event we lose power. How many of you are using non-ethanol fuel?
I would like to in all of my street bikes, especially at that price. Where do you live, 2005? But it is not near my house or on any route that has good roads. As soon as I need to get gas pretty much anywhere, the jig is up. I do have a 35 gallon gas pump in my outer garage with non-E for my vintage bikes and power equipment. And as an emergency "oh fuck, I need gas.". I add lead substitute, a very weak ratio of stabilizer and maybe a little Seafoam.
I use it for piece of mind, if nothing else. Wawa carries it nationwide, if that’s convenient to anyone, and the buyrealgas dot com is a locator website that’s been helpful. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
WaWa sells rec-fuel 89 octane, non ethanol $3.90 maybe? Sunoco down the street sells 90 octane for 4 and change give or take. All my bikes are carburetor so that is all I ever use. Lawn equipment ditto, lawn mower is over 20 years and the bowl was never dropped, can't say the same thing for the two stroke stuff, but oem carbs are cheap enough.
My local motorcycle shop charged me a couple of bucks to take about four gallons of old gas from my bike off my hands. I hadn't ridden it in over two years because life kept getting in the way. Since they also recover used oil in their day to day work its not uncommon for them to drain a few gas tanks when working on bikes that haven't been ridden in a while. I drove a to a station called Quick Trip on the way home for the non-ethanal gas. One 1 gallon can for the lawn mower and five gallon can for the VFR. One of the reasons I love my VFR is the large 5 gallon tank while most of what Honda offers is less than five. I'd would love to buy a cruiser bike IF They came with a 5 gallon fuel tank. The Rebel 1100 has a 3.5 gallon tank on a bike with 1100cc engine you're filling up every two miles.
My 95 is 5.5 gal. I REALLY wish my 92 was as least that too, it is 5.0. The 92 has bigger carbs than the 95 and is the thirstiest bike I have owned. On a spirited (WFO on corner exits a lot) afternoon I can run thru the whole tank in <120 miles and am getting pretty nervous on the last stretch to my house staring at a red "FUEL" light and a gauge below the red zone. I purposely ran it VERY low one day on the way home from work, stopping and checking with a flashlight, to see what a splash of gas means on the gauge. It is a bit more than the width of the red zone below the red zone.
The fuel sender usually has two components, the float arm/wiper that changes resistance as the level changes and drives the needle, and the thermistor which is mounted at a fixed height in the tank and switches on your red light when it becomes uncovered by fuel. Of the two, the low fuel light is most reliable and usually (but don't blame me if you have to push a dead bike) indicates when there is about 3L left.
I ran out of gas on all my bikes at one time, only one time though. The low gas light comes on progressively brighter as the level gets lower, my Ninja 500 gets over 200 on its tank.
Just make sure that the hose only dispenses non-ethanol gas. If that hose shared with an ethanol gas selection and the person before you bought ethanol gas, that first gallon that you get will contain ethanol.
