as you may expect, there is a big discussion in Germany mad car country about E10 fuel.. so who wonders there is a fuel-mad fraction compiling the most accurate list published by ADAC and DAT of vehicles who are capable of using E10-fuel. The actual list can be downloaded here:
http://www.dat.de/e10liste/e10vertraeglichkeit.pdf
it contains mainly cars, but BMW, Honda, Kawasaki, Triumph and Yamaha from 1990 upwards as well... has a good and long list sorted by VIN-no. and models. To put your mind as rest most bikes above 500cc have no problems using E10 fuel.. regarding the list... well the list is published in German, but it's easy to read out your bike.
hope that helps..
anyway my 2-pennies...
regarding E10 production consumes crops in figures, in form of 1.8 million bread per year for Germany alone, I would not use it anyway... but by 2013 we may all get forced by our "beloved" governments to use it anyway.... or may even before regarding the oil industries wanting to stop selling our "standard Super 95 octane" for greed, to be able make space for the new E10.... well keep in mind the today's 98 octane contains E5 already... so I will call it E5-95...
to make it clear E10 fuel cost more than E5-95 to produce, the ecology effect is in doubt, E10 will be forced to the market, to be a successful competitor for E5-95 and to make folks to buy the shit, the price will rice for E5-95... in the end E5-95 will vanish like 92 did already....
the alternative would be to use "Super+ 98 octane" fuel, which is so much more expensive... the greedy factor is included so what ever you pore in to your bike it will cost you and makes any journey a even bigger pain.
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Last edited by spooky; 31 Dec 2010 at 12:57.
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