Woo hoo almost there + stupid question

[DanceLikeAMon...]

Good news, my mother has said there's no hurry to pay her back the grand she lent me for my unwanted car (it's a long boring story, but rest assured it is selling on eBay as I type), so as soon as it is sold I can finally get my very first bike!

Went to West Gate Road (that's in Newcastle to those that don't know) and got myself a helmet from Custom Lids - very friendly guy there who spent about 45 minutes with me trying them on and giving advice on what to look for.

So now I've got my helmet, jacket, gloves, boots, chains and locks, just got to trawl the usual places for a cheap SR or CG.

Now for the stupid question: I know that most cars from the mid 80's onwards used unleaded petrol as standard but is that true for bikes as well?

[Barker-CBR 600]

Never seen a bike that dont

I am presuming that most if not all do, or at least it is blaringly obvious when they dont (i.e its rare so you will be told)
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[DanceLikeAMon...]

That's what I thought, but for some reason it was nagging at the back of my mind. Cheers for that!

[instigator]

Take a look in exchange/mart section of the forum, theres a superb condition sr125 for sale from dodsi there.

worth a look

[DanceLikeAMon...]

Yeah I saw that one from the link on one of his posts, looks nice, but it is a little bit more than I want to pay. I was looking for something more around the £700.

[Azmodeus]

Hehe, you know, I ever even considered the possibility of my bike not being Unleaded.

Im sure there are more than a few storys out there of people putting Diesel into their bike by accident

[pipnet11]

Old high performance bikes used to need leaded petrol due to them having very high compression ratios. My dads 1972 BMW needed leaded petrol or it 'pinked' (hard to describe it, happens as the fuel ignites itself before the spark). A couple of 3mm compression plates later and its fine.

If your looking at 125s they will take unleaded, almost all bikes will. Even those from the 1950s with lower compression ratios will happily take unleaded fuel.
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[mrchips]

My MT50 ran on Four Star (LRP) but as Unleaded was about 3p cheaper, it thankfully worked well on it too.
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