when you are your own dreaded previous owner

If you know where to shop there are ethanol free fuels and it is pretty normal to add fuel stabilizer which should keep the fuel from doing anything other than being "fuel".

I prefer AvGas. It has fuel stabilizer built in and is ethanol free. I have had bikes sit for several years with AvGas and never an issue.

Jim
I used to buy Avgas for years where I live at Langley airport, but federal govt stopped motor vehicles from driving to the pumps at airports, or at least this particular airport. I used it not for storage as there’s still east enough access to 0% ethanol gasoline available, I used it for full race trim 12.5-1 comp Norton Commando.
 
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Whoever did the translation into French on that label must have got kicked out of school very early.

Paul
 
my writtren French is not that good as my spoken, as you know Paul, but I carefully studdied the label and didnt find the gaff, point me to it please.
CLEM
 
my writtren French is not that good as my spoken, as you know Paul, but I carefully studdied the label and didnt find the gaff, point me to it please.
CLEM
Revitalise vieille gaz isn't French and evoques digestive gasses more than anything else. Petrol in French is as you know essence.
Stimuler l'octane par deux points. Not French either. Sounds vaguely sexual. Stimulate by two points....I leave that to your appreciation.
Formule de l'éthanol is this
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I always buy non-ethanol fuel that's really easy to get everywhere in Oz. But I left my Pantah sitting for 3 or 4 months a while ago. The rear vertical carb was fine, the front inclined one was absolutely chocka with that white powder. I am talking golf ball-sized lump in the float bowl. The carbs are now clean, thanks to Marty's ultrasonic, it's such a pain and won't happen again.
I’d like to see you fit a golf ball into a pantah float bowl…
 
thanks Paul got that
but "gas" is creaping into the UK spoken English, mainly with hip hop youngsters and the Bike Shed brigade with their "bobbers"
you didnt go to school with Christiannes Weisbach by any chance did you (one of my five (a day) best Laverda ladies on the planet)
your Corrine is in that list as well, oh dear now you know who two of the five are and if I add (well known to you) Armelle then there are only two left so I will stop now before you work out that Marianne is on the list leaving only one! you will never be told!!!

I suppose in France one would not want to get confused with "gazol"

CLEM
 
thanks Paul got that
but "gas" is creaping into the UK spoken English, mainly with hip hop youngsters and the Bike Shed brigade with their "bobbers"
you didnt go to school with Christiannes Weisbach by any chance did you (one of my five (a day) best Laverda ladies on the planet)
your Corrine is in that list as well, oh dear now you know who two of the five are and if I add (well known to you) Armelle then there are only two left so I will stop now before you work out that Marianne is on the list leaving only one! you will never be told!!!

I suppose in France one would not want to get confused with "gazol"

CLEM
Gas is creeping into the English language, as is movies, trucks, highways and a lot of other words, not to mention junk food. I don't think that youngsters are particularly responsible. Lack of culture and education more likely.

One would not want to confuse with gazole or rosbif in France.

My parents who would tour Europe by car in the 50s related a sign in Southern France intended for British tourists. "5 o'clock tea à toute heure".

Paul
 
Gas is creeping into the English language, as is movies, trucks, highways and a lot of other words, not to mention junk food. I don't think that youngsters are particularly responsible. Lack of culture and education more likely.

One would not want to confuse with gazole or rosbif in France.

My parents who would tour Europe by car in the 50s related a sign in Southern France intended for British tourists. "5 o'clock tea à toute heure".

Paul
Rest assured Paul, I am as wary of a continental seven as any Brit but do my bit by riding the length of France mispronouncing towns when asking for directions, I also find speaking loudly with hand gestures and occasionally adding an “O” to the end of a word , Johnny foreigner finally grasps it. My daughter laughs if I refer to he mobile as a telephone and apparently no one says “Totty” any more or eats Pizza with a knife and fork!
 
Rest assured Paul, I am as wary of a continental seven as any Brit but do my bit by riding the length of France mispronouncing towns when asking for directions, I also find speaking loudly with hand gestures and occasionally adding an “O” to the end of a word , Johnny foreigner finally grasps it. My daughter laughs if I refer to he mobile as a telephone and apparently no one says “Totty” any more or eats Pizza with a knife and fork!
I also put O at the end when asking for directions.
That's how I found Peters Boro.

Totty? Wasat? Francesco of football fame?

Paul
 
I totally agree that aviation fuel is great if the bike will be sitting for some time. It does not ever seem to go bad?
It does go off, if you buy it as race fuel it is the stuff that is no longer good for aircraft, we used to buy from the helicopter guys, fresh as

Never trust a man that’s eats pizza with a knife and fork…
 
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