I took the route from Bariloche South on Ruta's 40/20/26/3 and made a note of gas stations on route. All stations listed below were big YPF or Esso stations unless otherwise stated.

Gas is available at El Bolsen and Esquel after that here are your choices after that with distances between each:

Esquel
180km
Gobernador Costa
250km
Sarmienta
72km
On Ruta 26 to Comodoro Rivadavia
68km
Comodoro Rivadavia
68km
Caleta Olivia
78km
Fitz Roy
132km
Tres Cerros
137km
San Juan
120km
Comandante Luis Piedrabuena
There is a small gas station 102km from CLP but I wouldn't rely on it for gas, so...
233km
Rio Gallegos
286km
San Sebastian
72km
Rio Grande
There's another small gas station at Lago Escondido, 163km from Rio Grande, again I wouldn't rely on it, so...
209km
Ushuaia

If taking Ruta 5 from Rio Gallegos to Calafate there is a gas station 140km from Rio Gallegos at Esperanza, Calafate is a further 162km away. There is a small gas station that I wouldn't rely on for fuel 80km from Rio Gallegos on the way to Esperanza.

Riding into the wind from Rio Gallegos to Calafate I consumed 25% more fuel than riding the other direction so factor this into your calculations because you never know how windy it'll be down here.

Oh, and if you're riding from Rio Gallegos to Ushuaia it's easily possible in one day. My advice is to leave before 8am to get ahead of the busses that might slow you up at border corssings. I think the busses leave Rio Gallegos at 8:30am.

Good luck.

Hey EasyG, I met an English couple recently that said you've been making some excelent videos of your travels, where can I get a look at some of these??

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Hi Ironarse... you can keep up to date with my adventures on Youtube

YouTube - easyg1409's Channel

Enjoy!

It's great that you took the time to record this info.

For people planning their fuel stops, I'll remind them that a 140 km/h headwind will play havoc with your mileage. Don't plan on your regular fuel stops.

Bien viaje.

Thanks for the info, it will come in handy.

I can say that the headwind I was punching into while chasing the Dakar made me run out of fuel nearly twice, just scraped it in, so I will be extra careful in the next week or so while I head south!

Cheers
TravellingStrom

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Enjoy the ride, but bring spare fuel. I ran out of fuel three times so far in the Atacama in Chile and on Ruta 40 in Argentina. The aged "fill up on every opportunity" was invented in these parts, even if you've only done 100 km. Not all gasolineras turned out to actually have gas... My bike has a range of about 330 km, but that drops down to as low as 230 km with strong head & cross winds. I carry a couple of gallons in cans to get me out of those situations.

I really enjoyed this part of the trip, sort of felt like a return to adventure with large deserted stretches of unpaved marvels with beautiful wide panoramas. Cursed at horrible road conditions and smiled all the way

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G'day Vincent, thanks for the tips

Good to see you got to the end of the road, I am about a week behind, shows what a detour through the Bolivian desert can do to a schedule

Cheers
Richard

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Just for some further info, the fuel at Gobernado Costa is closed, or was yesterday and the fuel at Sarmienta was not available on the main highway unless you have diesel, you need to go into town to the other station down th emain drag about a km then a left turn for a block, easy to spot, that was lucky for me!

Cheers
TS

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The station ar Sarmiento is now open at least as of 2 weeks ago.

The YPF station at San Sebastan is closed and doesn't appear to be reopening - at least that was the way it just looked.

If you are taking the route through Rio Gallegos you have to fill up there or it is 330 miles to Cerro Sombrero, Chili. We made it in there presumably on fumes and the gas was horribly expensive. In fact, due to their economic progress, everything in Chili is horribly expensive. Don't stay at the hostel in Cerro Sombrero. They will soak you. It is the last stop before 100 miles of bad gravel to San Sebastan.

Otherwise gas is easy, but as someone posted above, don't assume anaything and fill up at almost every opportunity.

Amazingly enough, the fierce winds didn't seem to affect our mileage as much as I thought it would. Be careful, slow down, ride on the upwind side of the lane.

I had absolutely everything I could handle to keep from being blown into the on-coming traffic and shall I say, this isn't my first rodeo.

LVR

I was there about 6 days ago and there was no fuel, is your comment out of date?

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The YPF had gas 2 weeks ago. We noted a fair number of stations that were out of gas past there in smaller towns: Trevelin for example.

When we got to town the Petrogas just ran out and the YPF was already out. 3 days later the YPF was open.

Also, there were scattered temporary outages on Ruta 40.

So, as we did fill up there, I have to conclude that it was a temporary outage.

It looked like a new station.

LVR