Wowers $1.03per litre for 91octane!!!!

**fazer** · 24th July 2006, 11:20

on the petrol theme......have been advised to use premium petrol in the bike, anyone any views one way or the other?

**race me!!!!** · 24th July 2006, 12:51

petrol? whats that ive heard marvelous storys of yore about that wasnt it like caviar and crystal champagne an diamonds?????

**mynameis** · 24th July 2006, 13:31

That's a very lame photoshop work, zoom in properly and you'll see it dirty obvious.

Price of a barrel dropped to USD 70 so it should go down about 9 or 10 cents pretty soon.

**James Deuce** · 24th July 2006, 13:39

Originally Posted by mynameis

Price of a barrel dropped to USD 70 so it should go down about 9 or 10 cents pretty soon.

You should submit that to TUI's marketing people mate. You could win 12 months worth of Tui.

**Finn** · 24th July 2006, 16:28

I know why you're buying all that petrol Crazy Steve. Even at 2 bucks a litre, it's cheap entertainment.

**Qkchk:Me** · 24th July 2006, 16:48

Originally Posted by fazer

on the petrol theme......have been advised to use premium petrol in the bike, anyone any views one way or the other?

Ive heard from within the industry that taxi drivers are running 96 octane in their falcons/commodore etc because they run more economical in the long run.

But back to the question - My bike pings on 91 so I use 96 but have been recommended to use 98 if poss. Depends on what type of bike you have - high performace, street or tourer etc......... Be aware of using Gull's '91' because its actually only 89 octane and their '96' is 95. (Even tho petrol only has a shelf-life of approx 1-3 months til it starts to drop in octane, hence stale fuel)......

Hmmm, makes you wonder how often they sell you shoddy fuel?

**Smokin** · 24th July 2006, 16:54

Originally Posted by Quasievil

I paid $1.91 per litre this am for the Ducati, thats the last time I buy at BP, they can stick their super grade whateva the fuck it is up their arse.

Lucky Buggers, It's $1.98 down here.

**jedi** · 24th July 2006, 18:42

I filled up at that same station and the price went up by $2!!

**MikeyG** · 24th July 2006, 18:46

Originally Posted by Qkchk

Ive heard from within the industry that taxi drivers are running 96 octane in their falcons/commodore etc because they run more economical in the long run.

But back to the question - My bike pings on 91 so I use 96 but have been recommended to use 98 if poss. Depends on what type of bike you have - high performace, street or tourer etc......... Be aware of using Gull's '91' because its actually only 89 octane and their '96' is 95. (Even tho petrol only has a shelf-life of approx 1-3 months til it starts to drop in octane, hence stale fuel)......

Hmmm, makes you wonder how often they sell you shoddy fuel?

Taxi drivers are full of shit. The efficiency of an engine depends on the compression ratio. A higher octane fuel allows you to run a higher compression ratio. Running a higher octane fuel without engine mods will not give you higher efficiency.

I've got a degree in this shit.

**Quartida** · 24th July 2006, 18:55

Originally Posted by fazer

on the petrol theme......have been advised to use premium petrol in the bike, anyone any views one way or the other?

There's a thread about this somewhere...

Here it is. Starts about half way down when I ask a girly question about octanes.

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=31060

**Waylander** · 24th July 2006, 19:16

I know that bridge in your second set of pics. Nice roads back in there.

**Crazy Steve** · 24th July 2006, 19:45

Take that rd up the hill and follow it to Arapuni...its about 20kms....Of sweet sweet road dude...

My G-Friend and I rode it on Sunday...She rode her Dr250....the whole way we only say 2cars untill we reach Arapuni...then the road connects with Te Awamutu and Putauru highway and lots more traffic then...The Arapuni Dam is close at the moment..(they working on it)..so you cant ride over it at the moment...And the swing Bridge is open only on one side....the township side..

Did you know that swing bridge was opened in 1929...(something like that)

Real high and kewl Bro...limited to 30people per time...But still a huge huge swing bridge!!!!!!!

Crazy Steve..

**Waylander** · 24th July 2006, 19:59

WHoa, didn't know any of that was there. Need to ride that area more often...

**degrom** · 24th July 2006, 20:06

Luckily there is still a few IT geeks left that can download your picture and see that you took the picture with a Canon camera back in 2002... 2002-08-31 to be precise. LOL