Stop the bike dying in winter

[darrsi]

[quote author=darrsi link=topic=27584.msg331254#msg331254 date=1676844376]
[quote author=dave8204 link=topic=27584.msg331246#msg331246 date=1676768213]
Fuel goes off very quickly these days,if you leave your bike with petrol in the system for more than a few weeks you're going to get trouble with any bike.

Sorry, but that's simply not true.
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We'll have to disagree on that mate,from personal experience and from hanging around my mate's Bike shop/workshop for years I'm seeing more and fuel-related problems with customer's bikes, usually around this time of year when many are using them for the first time since last September or so,mostly older carb'd bikes.


https://monomotorcycles.co.uk/how-can-mo...vent-this/

Most relevant part is this:

[color=rgb(31, 31, 31)]Here is a shocking fact. Modern ethanol fuel starts to go off the moment it goes into your fuel tank. A sealed petrol can kept in a cool dark place can last 6 months before it starts to degrade, however in your vented motorcycle fuel tank, it can be as little as six weeks before you could start to see issues.[/color]
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Everyone on here has a carbed bike, and there are probably more rather than less that don't use them all through winter, but the forum doesn't get swamped with non starters due to bad fuel every year. If it did i would've noticed and know a lot about the subject as i've been on here a long time now, but it's never really been an issue. My own bike sat around doing nothing in very warm temperatures during the first year of covid when i was furloughed and the bike had no fuel issues whatsoever when i went back to work. Although to be truthful back then i would only use 97 RON fuel, and now bounce between 97 Super and ESSO 99 which has zero Ethanol in it (it's marked as "Up To 5%" on the pump for legal reasons).