10 % Ethanol fuel

[smilee mark]

We have just had a new fuel introduced here with 10% ethanol, it is 95 din (whatever that means). Will A 1200 GSA run "allright" on it and are there any long term benefits or side effects?....Sorry its late here, my syntax is not the best!

 

[turnipbmw]

Bike magazine have been setting up a triumph 675 to run on 85% ethanol produced from apple juice.
It was more powerful and showed better economy in mid range.

I believe that many countries now use a 10% mix with no problem

 

[smilee mark]

thanks turnipbmw i thought that may be the case, oz is "sometimes a bit slow on the up take...

 

[GSwadd]

We have had it up North here for ages but haven't even tried it yet. Might just try it in the work car for a while to be safe...

 

[Ali-bear]

You're better off with the older 1200 GSA than the 08 onwards models. Lower compression ratio.

A while back I was looking at the fuel and ignition maps for the Triumph Tiger 955 comparing the official maps for the Brazilian market (they have a lot of ethanol in their petrol) with the standard one. Only difference seemed to be that maximum ignition advance was lower on the Brazilian version.

 

[Brian ROSEN]

Ethanol !!!

That takes me back to the 1948 fuel crisis - when the petrol ration for pleasure was ZERO! I ran my BSA A7 twin on straight methanol, having bored out the main jet. It ran Ok, used twice as much fuel as before and I learnt how to do my first respray as all he paint was washed off the tank!

 

[turnipbmw]

We store 40,000 litres of 96% ethanol at work.

Have to toss up and decide wether to drink it or put it in R100 tank