BP Ultimate

[MaxB]

We are being doubly screwed here. Did you hear a while back the petrol companies think NZ fuel is too cheap? It looks like they have done something about it. In the UK when unleaded 95 hit 1.00 pound/litre our price was $1.49. Yesterday the same web site had UK 95 at 1.11 and our was $1.93. So theirs has gone up by 10% or so and in the same time ours......

Does anyone else smell a big fat rat?

[Nasty]

The problem is that they are currently desensitising us to the fact that gas may go over $3 a litre. Its in the news ... and its everywhere ... exactly what happened with $2 only now we accept it ... the bloody government should be stepping in .. not only on gas (where they take half the ferkin money) ... but on mortgage rates etc which are outta ferking control!

[Soul.Trader]

but on mortgage rates etc which are outta ferking control!

The government cannot control mortgage rates. That would be completely insane.

[cowboyz]

Agreed. But they could take GST off the TAX we pay as RATES! Paying an extra $126 per year on a tax pisses me off.

Back to the fuel thing. EVERYONE says it is just plain stupid - yet noone seems to be doing anything about it - well what can you do?

My bike drinks 98 like water for some reason. Runs better and smoother on 95with better fuel economy.

[quickbuck]

The government cannot control mortgage rates. That would be completely insane.

No direct control, but in an indirect way they do influence the mortgage rates... What they do effects the rate, so yeah, if they were then to peg it back it would be a contradiction.

[quickbuck]

My bike drinks 98 like water for some reason.

Heck.... must be a rough ride then....

What ever did happen to that clown who said he could run a bike on water?

Personally I won't be convinced until I see a bike on a track in a race using it.

[sinfull]

Heck.... must be a rough ride then....

What ever did happen to that clown who said he could run a bike on water?

Personally I won't be convinced until I see a bike on a track in a race using it.

It'll happen !
Know a guy who's running a 4x4 on water (petrol for start up and excelleration) and getting 900 odd km on a tank full of gas !
Up untill a few years ago anyone who knew how to do the conversions, kept quiet about it for fear of being silenced !
The technology is there, its just a matter of time till its develloped properly !
Mean while i'll just keep paying for 98

[Nasty]

The government cannot control mortgage rates. That would be completely insane.

you are right the government controls the rates that run and control the economy .. which controls the MORTGAGE RATES .. putting the circle together makes it sooooo simple.

[henry]

Why do you run 98? It's slower burning so you'll get less power. You should run on the lowest octane that doesn't cause knocking.

[sinfull]

Petrol head from way back and a sharing/caring kind of guy ! Want to share the smell of unburnt feul with those behind me !

[sinfull]

A high tendency to autoignite, or low octane rating, is undesirable in a spark ignition engine but desirable in a diesel engine. The standard for the combustion quality of diesel fuel is the cetane number. A diesel fuel with a high cetane number has a high tendency to autoignite, as is preferred.

It should be noted that octane rating does not relate to the energy content of the fuel (see heating value), nor the speed at which the flame initiated by the spark plug propagates across the cylinder. It is only a measure of the fuel's resistance to autoignition. It is for this reason that one highly branched form, or isomer, of octane (2,2,4-trimethylpentane) has (by definition) an octane rating of 100, whereas n-octane (see octane), which has a linear arrangement of the 8 carbon atoms, has an octane rating of -10, even though the two fuels have exactly the same chemical formula and virtually identical heating values and flame speeds.

[dipshit]

Stop being a bunch of cry babies and look on the bright side. Higher fuel prices is probably going to mean fewer cars on the road and hopefully more motorbikes out there.

Less car drivers will go out for their obligatory Sunday drive and stay home and mow the lawns instead.

Even in the last few years, I have noticed less bogans out cruising around in their old V8's and Holdens.

[sinfull]

while engines perform best when using fuel with the octane rating for which they were designed and any increase in performance by using a fuel with a different octane rating is minimal or even imaginary, unless there are carbon hotspots, fuel injector clogging or other conditions that may cause a lean situation that can cause knocking that are more common in high mileage vehicles

Given the fact that mine are low milage bikes and i've not noticed any difference in power tween the octanes, 98 is a pretty yellow !

[Bonez]

while engines perform best when using fuel with the octane rating for which they were designed and any increase in performance by using a fuel with a different octane rating is minimal or even imaginary, unless there are carbon hotspots, fuel injector clogging or other conditions that may cause a lean situation that can cause knocking that are more common in high mileage vehicles

Given the fact that mine are low milage bikes and i've not noticed any difference in power tween the octanes, 98 is a pretty yellow !

Urine is yellow too.

[sinfull]

Urine is yellow too.

Mmmm seem to recall something like that, prior to alcoholism setting in ! Now is a lighter shade of heineken !