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Old 04-27-2020, 09:50 PM   #318 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr View Post
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.
I was specifically speaking about the US market were E85 is wildly available and we are about to change our standard blend from E10 to E15.

Motorcycle manufacturers are resisting this change because they claim E15 will destroy even newly made motorcycles. Bikes that were manufactured well after the timeline to move to E15 was announced. When E10 was mandated they didn't bother to look ahead to the next step and make their engines E15, E20, E25 compatible.
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