superhawk
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has anybody read anything on how gas with ethanol will affect bikes? I use chevron premium when ever I can, if not what ever is close when my gas light come on.
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Mtbe/ Ethanol
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Likely2BAirborn
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When compressed and ignited with a spark it produces an explosion. This explosion pushes down the piston which turns the crank shaft. 
superhawk
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likely2bairborn said:When compressed and ignited with a spark it produces an explosion. This explosion pushes down the piston which turns the crank shaft.
What happens to the little monkey that works the drive belt?
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I thought mtbe was already removed from cali gas due to poisoning of the lakes by PWC etc.? we still have oxygenated gas for winter months though don't we? it sucks either way for hi-perf vehicles but such is the price to pay for cleaning up the air we breathe.
wait a minute. no, what sucks is the bay area esp. SF paying some of the highest prices in the nation (though we got nothing to complain about compared to ROW).
what's trippy is how bikes get away with such high compression w/o pinging while cages can't. never compared emission output ppm etc. though, would be interesting. I know bikes kick most car ass on mpg and definitely fun factor
wait a minute. no, what sucks is the bay area esp. SF paying some of the highest prices in the nation (though we got nothing to complain about compared to ROW).
what's trippy is how bikes get away with such high compression w/o pinging while cages can't. never compared emission output ppm etc. though, would be interesting. I know bikes kick most car ass on mpg and definitely fun factor
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MTBE was supposed to be completely removed this year(?) But because CA uses so much gas, they don't think that the farmers can grow enough corn to make the amount of ethanol that CA would require, so they're going to try to push back to MTBE-free date till 2004 or around there so the farmers have enough time to increase their corn production.
MTBE is an ether derivative used to increase oxygen in gasoline. Ethanol is a agri-fuel with a lower energy content, which when mixed with gasoline, actually raises the octane level. Higher the octane, the lower the energy is the gasoline.
rritterson
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I thought the consensus was Ethanol in gas was a sham because it polluted far more to grow the corn that it did to just burn the additive-free gas.