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Old 04-27-2020, 08:31 PM   #317 (permalink)
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It drives me crazy that manufacturers make $2000 motorcycles that are fully flex-fuel for Brazil but refuse to spend the tiny investment required to make $20,000 bikes work with E15 in the USA.
Nowadays only the ones which have at least front disc brakes are flexfuel, but usually only motorcycles up to 300cc are available as flexfuel.


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Any EFI bike should be flex-fuel today.
Gotta have to agree with that. However, since in Brazil ethanol is effectively widespread as a motor fuel, it won't become a trend elsewhere so soon. Not even in Paraguay where flexfuel cars have been more common as they can be sourced from Brazil or following Brazilian specifications (at least Kia is now selling Korean-made flexfuel cars there), since most motorcycles sold there are Chinese and often carburettor-fed.
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