V-Power / Super Unleaded
 

Is it worth running the bike on higher octane fuel?
Will it make any difference to the performance?
What are you guys filling up with?

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In short, no. I use standard.

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Use the more expensive stuff every now and again. Only to give the bike a treat, don't make much difference IMO. I usually fill it up with Vpower etc when they've been stood a while, don't know why, perhaps I'm tricking myself into thinking it will help it along its way after leaving them with half a tank of crap for a month or two

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Someone tell me if I'm wrong, but I belive it makes no differnce to injected bikes ie the one you and I own. I have been using regular unleaded all winter with no problems, but then I do my bike in the garage. However if it does then I will put some in.

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You need a knock sensor, the new BMW's and Scoobies have them. SV's don't.
Though there are a lot of cleaners and other things in the fuels so they burn better, and even helps with carb icing so you do get a better tank range but it all balances out with the additional cost. I found that Shell Optimax was the best for cost and benifits, the BP stuff was just stupid expensive and didn't compare as well.
If your really bored there is a hole load of it on my blog from the testing I did.

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some bikes tend to run better, but only because the higher octane fuel is slightly cleaner than the normal one.

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yes and maybe/no.

yes for my bmwr1100s (or for any of the bmw BOXER bikes) id not use anything BUT super unleaded. it really does make a difference!:batman:

maybe/no as it varies dependant on bikes, some run better with it, some it barely noticable.. others u may has well of not bothered.

:smt115i normally give any bike that is new to me a test (a few successive tankfulls of the good stuff~ to run it through the system) and go from there.

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My experience of it in my K4 was that I got marginally higher MPG from it, but the difference was so slight it was nowhere near worth the extra cash. The "backside dyno" noticed no increase in BHP.

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Not really, I have never noticed any gains in mpg or power with a tuned or standard SV650 engine.

Any unleaded I can find, and the cheapest too.

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i've no scientific evidence to back up my claims, but my curvy seems to suffer less from carb icing when it's filled with super unleaded.

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supermarket fuels have more additives in then texico, bp etc but are cheaper and you probably won't have any illeffects unless you run a harley or something stupid.
I've only ever topped mine up with super when I was picking it up and it had been stood 18 months. Started and ran lovely. You could always mix super and regular if you wanted.

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Aye, that is the assumption as it does contain addictives but I personally use Silkolene Pro FST.

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Is there a fuel sniffing problem in the Asylum? ...Silkolene gives a better hit?:smt115

Some places in the NT have to put up with Opel fuel because the locals can't get wasted on it like the regular stuff. It makes a bike run like crap.

Cheers

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bang the cheapest stuff in.

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+1

my curvy was coughing all over the place when started up in mildly cold weather, so I put in some expensive go juice and seemed to solve the problem. Always a chance that there were other factors (weather, bad fuel before). But now I'm always putting in the red stuff, just out of superstition.

I think I'll go back to normal when its warm!

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Cheers for the replies guys. :thumbsup: I run V Power in the car because of the fuel map, but I'm more than happy to go with the regular for the bike.