R1200RS + R1250RS Forum
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Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:13 am (Last edited: Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:18 am)
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My California newspaper reports that our "winter" gas will be arriving at petrol stations starting November 1. The article says that it should be cheaper and could cut fuel costs by 13%. According to the article: "For the winter blend, refiners can add butane to fuel and produce 5% to 8% more gas from every barrel of crude oil. This formula evaporates easier." Perhaps that is the reason that our "double-start" issues evaporate during the winter months. Perhaps our BMW RS engines love to start the day with a dose of butane. Current motorcycle collection: 2002 Yamaha FZ1; 2005 Triumph Bonneville T-100; 2011 Royal Enfield Bullet 500; 2009 BMW F650GS; 2016 BMW R1200RS; 2011 Zero S 16.6 kWh |
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perhaps you should go for a full LPG conversion? This is/was a popular thing in V8 Land Rovers etc as UK where gas prices are very high. 95RON petrol is about 130p a litre, LPG which is mostly butane is 60p a litre. Of course, butane has fewer calories per litre but there is still a big cost advantage if you can accommodate the pressurised tank. |
Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #2 When I started in 1974 working at the city that I retired from 30 years later, some of their vehicles were powered by compressed propane. Our public work's inspector had an International Harvester pickup truck that had a large tank taking up all of the load area. The poor thing was powered by a V-8 engine and was so under-powered that it could barely get up a 10% grade. Plus, the engine wore out very quickly since there was no lead in the "garlic gas" (what we used to call the odor of that burned gas) and the valves recessed into the head rapidly. After that experiment, the city gave up on propane-power. They also tried out Eon synthetic oil at the same time and it ruined a number of engines before they switched back to conventional oil in the public works vehicles. I don't think they ever went back to compressed gas or synthetic oil after that experience. I don't think compressed anything is something that I want to power my motorcycle.
Current motorcycle collection: 2002 Yamaha FZ1; 2005 Triumph Bonneville T-100; 2011 Royal Enfield Bullet 500; 2009 BMW F650GS; 2016 BMW R1200RS; 2011 Zero S 16.6 kWh
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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #4 yes, big in Europe - I noticed the buses in Porto are LNG (liquid natural gas) powered. Europe imports a lot of LNG along the Putin pipelines, hence why he is appeased - he doesn't need to bomb the West to cripple it, just switch off the gas pipelines, which he did when the EU gave him a hard time over Crimea. Caused a proper panic. The UK has recently commissioned a pipeline from the west coast of Wales which has a port deep enough to take the largest LNG tankers so we can take gas from other states with crazy leaders, including US shale gas. |
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To insure the cheapest possible price for customers world wide, the Trump party in the State of Pennsylvania refuses to tax the extraction of NG. I hope the world appreciates this gift, since we're the only NG gas producing US state that doesn't charge an extraction tax.
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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #6 We are quite happy to deplete your resources as well as those of Russia and Australia. Fracking isn't going down too well in the UK so we can leave that gas untapped until your gas has run out. |
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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #1 Can't wait for the crap gas to disappear. Bike starts so much better in the winter ... hard have to push the starter button.
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Grumpy Goat RSWasserboxer.com |
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Expect a reduction in mpg with that fake gas. |
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