New E petrol

[Bill Morrison]

I have mates who would only ever put the top grade petrol in their Motor bikes or had to have the latest super duper tyres. They would tell you that lower grade petrol and tyres affected the performance of the bikes. Really !!!! a lot of them also wore knee pads on their leathers. Quite a few used to get pis-ed off when I would ride round them or out brake them when doing track days. As for getting my knee down only time I ever did it for real was at the bottom corner Mulsanne straight at Le Mans in 2012 while touring. It was not skill it was survival I was in to hot and doing just under 160 mph on my Kawasaki Z1000 SX, Oh and that was running on E 10 Petrol and sports touring tyres.
Oh how I miss my Motor Cycling days now and miss this big boy.Attachment 33262 not my actual bike but exactly the same colour and model.

Well Lewis, As you miss the old days and your in your dotage this might be of help. These were the once a common sight on the roads.

[Keith Tindell]

Bill, that brought back some memories, would have been about 1948, my uncle used to bring my great grandmother in one of those, up from Portsmouth to Surrey to visit us. If it was due to rain they used to dress G gRan in a dockyard (where uncle worked) oilskin withe old southwester, as kids we used to roll up with laughter, god knows what other motorist thought of that sight on the way home. If only we had a camera in those days, kt

[Des Taff Jenkins]

I have always used E10, touch wood never had a problem, not that we go far these days, have to get a rego check and service on the car next week, I think I have done around 500 k since the last one, at least the rego is free. haven't been to Canberra for over a year.
Des

[Keith at Tregenna]

Hi Des, this way will stick to what was just unleaded, may cost a bit more here now but,
with my current mileage, not a problem.

Seems, Ministers are currently looking at ways to recover funds lost from both vehicle and excise duty (VED) - or car tax - and fuel duty when more drivers switch to plug-in vehicles and the number of petrol and diesel motors on the road declines.

Per mile road pricing could be introduced here by the end of the decade.

Keith.

[happy daze john in oz]

There was a time when gas was very popular here for cars with most users having their car converted to gas. One brand even made a dedicated gas car, my brother has a satation wagon one.
But now it is almost a thing of the past, some 20 servos being built within a 20 klm radius of where we live and none of them has a gas bowser.
None have an EV charging point either, so all the talk about EV for all is a long way off.

Not all servos sell E10 now, the new range of cars will not run well on it, many only performing well on high octane fuel.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

My wife asked me the question, with all these EV cars where do they get the electricity if they shut down all the power stations?
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

My wife asked me the question, with all these EV cars where do they get the electricity if they shut down all the power stations?
Des

Excellent question Des, sorry though no answer.