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Perhaps this topic is a dead horse.
But, as a new rider, it's difficult to make this decision without some advice.
Let's say we are riding a vintage bike, from the 70's, and the bike was 100% cleaned out and has only been running ethanol free fuel since then. Then, lets say we're planning a bit of a long distance trip in mostly wilderness areas, such as 100 miles or more, in one fell swoop, then a return trip of the same amount.
Finding gas stations with ethanol free fuel will be tough in mountainous areas. However, it is possible but it will add some extra bunches of miles.
I have heard that ethanol does it's dirtiest work when let sitting for a while. But how long does that mean?
What if for our trip, we started with a full tank of ethanol-free and burned all the way through it on most of the first leg but decided to stop and fill up at a E10 gas station before pushing the limits and just before arriving that evening, knowing that we're just going to go right ahead and burn that fuel the very next morning on return trip. Then, the next morning we do in fact just head right back and burn most of it but then close to home we fill up again with an ethanol-free gas station.
We have some small amount of ethanol in our gas now once we've arrived home. And, we had a whole tank of E10 in our bike sitting overnight that one night.
Did we did damage? Or because it was pretty muted burned right away, is this a moot concern?
But, as a new rider, it's difficult to make this decision without some advice.
Let's say we are riding a vintage bike, from the 70's, and the bike was 100% cleaned out and has only been running ethanol free fuel since then. Then, lets say we're planning a bit of a long distance trip in mostly wilderness areas, such as 100 miles or more, in one fell swoop, then a return trip of the same amount.
Finding gas stations with ethanol free fuel will be tough in mountainous areas. However, it is possible but it will add some extra bunches of miles.
I have heard that ethanol does it's dirtiest work when let sitting for a while. But how long does that mean?
What if for our trip, we started with a full tank of ethanol-free and burned all the way through it on most of the first leg but decided to stop and fill up at a E10 gas station before pushing the limits and just before arriving that evening, knowing that we're just going to go right ahead and burn that fuel the very next morning on return trip. Then, the next morning we do in fact just head right back and burn most of it but then close to home we fill up again with an ethanol-free gas station.
We have some small amount of ethanol in our gas now once we've arrived home. And, we had a whole tank of E10 in our bike sitting overnight that one night.
Did we did damage? Or because it was pretty muted burned right away, is this a moot concern?