Why would you need to raise your octane level in the first place?
Is your motor knocking?
That would be the only reason that would make sense, at which point, it would be probably cheaper to drain the fuel and refill then to acquire a booster that actually works and won't eat your skin or give you instant cancer and AIDS.
If youre worried it lost some octanes over the winter you could just top it off with some higher octane gas for peace of mind. Probably not needed though. The 3 months of winter we've had is not long enough for any significant drop in octane.
Although I did fill my tank with 91 before storage, partly incase there is some drop, but mostly just because Shell 91 has 0% ethanol and I thought it better to store the bike with less ethanol in it.
If youre worried it lost some octanes over the winter you could just top it off with some higher octane gas for peace of mind. Probably not needed though. The 3 months of winter we've had is not long enough for any significant drop in octane.
Although I did fill my tank with 91 before storage, partly incase there is some drop, but mostly just because Shell 91 has 0% ethanol and I thought it better to store the bike with less ethanol in it.
I completely get what you guys are saying but this stuff has been discussed to death...and if you can write up a thread Google is a whole lot easier. These guys just way overthink little things.
Burn what octane fuel your bike calls for. Buying premium for an engine that doesn't require it carries little or no benefit, unlike the marketing from the gas companies that would like you to believe otherwise and spend that extra 10 or 15 c/L. Any benefit from the premium fuel on a vehicle/engine that doesn't require it would come from the additive packages they usually include (ie, SuperClean, that sort of stuff) more so than the octane itself, and you can buy the additives a lot cheaper separately.
I always laugh when I see people with their grocery getter/minivan/etc pumping premium fuel and paying an extra $10-$20/tank thinking their vehicle is going to run better or something miraculous is going to happen with performance. They've drank the marketing Kool-Aid.
I completely get what you guys are saying but this stuff has been discussed to death...and if you can write up a thread Google is a whole lot easier. These guys just way overthink little things.
I'm not a fan of the Google when it comes to things like this. Personally I'd rather know what fellow riders, who ride in the same conditions as I do, have to say. Plus I overthink everything.
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I'm not a fan of the Google when it comes to things like this. Personally I'd rather know what fellow riders, who ride in the same conditions as I do, have to say. Plus I overthink everything.
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I'm not a fan of the Google when it comes to things like this. Personally I'd rather know what fellow riders, who ride in the same conditions as I do, have to say. Plus I overthink everything.
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Personally, in these sorts of situations, I prefer what science and legit studies say on the issue vs either the above. There are people who legitimately think that they're going to gain 10, 20+ HP on their Kia (to pick a typical non-performance car example) running premium gas - other people listening to them online and taking it as fact doesn't help anyone.
Personally, in these sorts of situations, I prefer what science and legit studies say on the issue vs either the above. There are people who legitimately think that they're going to gain 10, 20+ HP on their Kia (to pick a typical non-performance car example) running premium gas - other people listening to them online and taking it as fact doesn't help anyone.
I was putting in 94 because I thought that because it is an old bike it would help. Through some help from people here, I found that wasn't the case and have dropped down to 89 with no issues. (I think the recommendation is 87+)
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I wonder if it has something to do with not being tech savvy, and being older, where if you didn't know something, you asked someone. Or just stuck in the past. I am, however, starting to check more youtube videos when I need to see how to do something. So maybe there's hope for me yet.
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If the pic under the OP's username is accurate, that is a modern liquid cooled Japanese bike. It will run fine on pump gasoline unless someone has been in the engine significantly raising compression - and then it should be running on racing fuel. Octane boost is not a substitute.
Many of the reputable brands of octane boost typically utilize the same chemicals as refineries do to actually get the octane up, so they do work, but the difference is that the labels are often confusing or deceiving making it seem like they are getting much more of a point boost then they actually are. On one product I calculated you would need three or four bottles to a 50L tank to raise the octane to the same level as just pumping premium at the gas station instead. Financially it made zero sense. I agree, these are desperation products (on the road, can only find 89, need 91+) and that's it, but it doesn't stop people from buying them and dumping them in their minivan to get that extra 200HP.
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