helitrooper
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It's not quite another oil thread, but what do you put in yours? Just the bog standard supermarket stuff or do you pay that little bit more and get the 97 RON stuff - more bang for your money.
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Right Oh 
My 2 pennyworth
Don't use supermarket crap, use ordinary unleaded from any decent retailer.
Mine runs better on Shell or Total, but thats just my feeling, plus I get better MPG as well.
My 2 pennyworth
Don't use supermarket crap, use ordinary unleaded from any decent retailer.
Mine runs better on Shell or Total, but thats just my feeling, plus I get better MPG as well.
always try to us Shell , it appears to give better results , and if I'm on a trip I use the best Shell stuff . it works for me 
but never never ( unless I'm desperate) use supermarket shit 
but never never ( unless I'm desperate) use supermarket shit 
I get a little bit of low rev surging with my 1100. 97 RON goes some way to curing this.
always try to us Shell , it appears to give better results , and if I'm on a trip I use the best Shell stuff . it works for me
What exactly - have you found wrong with supermarket fuel?
Al
Mick_rw
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Right Oh
My 2 pennyworth
Don't use supermarket crap, use ordinary unleaded from any decent retailer.
Mine runs better on Shell or Total, but thats just my feeling, plus I get better MPG as well.
This was posted by me on another thread concerning Supermarket fuel.......
What exactly - have you found wrong with supermarket fuel?
Al
poor MPG / performance / and its full of additives that f##k up the fuel sensors according to BMW tec guys
and being a retailer any chance to stick the boot in to poxy supermarkets is fine by me 
It's all the same petrol, just different packaging. Tesco does a 99ron so what's up with that ? Load of cock n bull talked about fuel. Buy the cheapest don't get sucked in by the V POWER gives you VVVVrooom!
The usual complaint is that it doesn't have the additive packages that the big oil companies are said to add to their own fuel.
As has been said ad nauseum, everybody's fuel tends to come from the nearest refinery. For us in Scotland that is Grangemouth which I seem to remember is BP.
The BMW tech guys have probably been instructed to blame someone else to cover for the poor quality components fitted as the result of the bean counters restrictions.
Shouldn't this thread be in the 1200 section??
well the proof is in the pudding as they say.......... I have just returned from a weekend at Thruxton , which is a little over 200 mile round trip from my home. I filled up from Tescos about 20 miles from home , which if I had used Shell ( as I have previously) I should have been able to go there and back without needing to refuel , but I had to about 25 miles short of home . I only managed 172 miles and I usually get 180/190 miles per tank . I for one will not be doing this again and Tescos and all the other S/markets can stick to groceries and leave the fuel to the fuel stations .
well the proof is in the pudding as they say.......... I have just returned from a weekend at Thruxton , which is a little over 200 mile round trip from my home. I filled up from Tescos about 20 miles from home , which if I had used Shell ( as I have previously) I should have been able to go there and back without needing to refuel , but I had to about 25 miles short of home . I only managed 172 miles and I usually get 180/190 miles per tank . I for one will not be doing this again and Tescos and all the other S/markets can stick to groceries and leave the fuel to the fuel stations .
Hardly very scientific. Are you sure you rode at the same speeds, accelerated at the same rates, had the same tyre pressures, the same gradients etc etc? A 10% variation in fuel consumption from day to day would not be unusual.
As discussed on a recent trip to France where the only fuel available was E10 with 10% booze added to the petrol, these bikes are designed to operate on the crap you get in Mongolia and Belize: the minute difference between European brands is not going to affect the bike in any significant way.
LBL
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well
i did my usual trip to the Ardennes this weekend on my RT, i filled up with Total premium stuff before i left and averaged 49MPG, filled up with 95 over there and rode it back, same roads and maybe a little quicker, averaged just over 50mph with no power differance at all
i did my usual trip to the Ardennes this weekend on my RT, i filled up with Total premium stuff before i left and averaged 49MPG, filled up with 95 over there and rode it back, same roads and maybe a little quicker, averaged just over 50mph with no power differance at all
Mix both paraffin and petrol together and get a TVO mix on the go, they tell me these velocepedes run on owt!
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