Just though you might like to see a little fuel experiment that I'm running, the updates are going to be on my blog but here are the first 2 days posts:
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Just lately my GT has be running rather rough, possibley due to the cold weather and carb icing and possibly bad spark plugs. This is giving me some rather awfull fueling. I sometimes get home with the reseve light flashing, which normally never happens. So other then replacing the spark plugs which I'm doing later this afternoon I though I'd give some of the BP Ultimate fuel a try. After all its ment to give you a cleaner engine, better performance, Better fuel economy, and less polution. I've also been told it may even inprove the problems with carb icing, so I thought what the hell.
The fuel is rather more expensive at 94.9 per litre, compared to the 86.9 I get from Morrision, but maybe just maybe that cheap fuel is not doing my bike much good. The bike can't drink the fuel much worse then it is and it was almost empty due to a rather hungry trip. £17.51 later for 18.45 litres the bike is full and I'm off, I can say when I got to work the bike appears to be running better with less cut outs and what appears to be more fuel left. Lets see what happens over the next few days.
Current fuel figures. (newest - oldest)
(Mpg 34.5) KM per Litre:12.21 Pence per mile:11.45 (very cold day)
(Mpg 38.7) KM per Litre:13.7 Pence per mile:10.21 (cold day)
(Mpg 43.03) KM per Litre:15.23 Pence per mile:9.07 (nice - bit wet)
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Looking good, notice a much more responsive bike, and what seems a better economy. So I manage my 130 round trip and get back to the pump this morning. Fill up and manage £13.13 for 13.84 litres, much better. Almost like what it was before this bad weather set in, lets see those figures then:
(Mpg 42.7) KM per Litre:15.11 Pence per mile:10.10
Much much better, now that may have been due to a number of factors so I'm going to have to run this for a few days. As maybe I was just taking it easy due to the problems with the bike, also when I replace the plugs I may even get better performance. But I am happy so far, the bike is back to the £13 fuel mark that its was at for now. Which means the extra cost has been equally offset by the improvements in economy and performance.
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This is all on my other blog '
Bikers View'