Wewere there in August 2014. We were on a Vstrom 1000 and never went more than 150 miles before being able to fil the tank.
You can frequently get gas in "Gomerias" and avoid the haggling at the gas stations. . We normally paid between 5 and 7 Bolivianos a littre.
Hope that helps.

Thanks garrydymond,
Did you go to Atacama?

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If you mean from Uyuni, no. We met a Colombian guy who rode across. He arranged gas, food and transportation of his luggage with one of the many4x4 tour companies. Noidea what they charged him.

Garry hit it right, gas is everywhere and far easier away from big centers, distance is not the issue, service is.

The only place to tank up would be from Uyuni to SPDA.

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Ok all, many thanks for your help. We are now out of Bolivia and into Peru. This is what we found in the last 3 and a half weeks travelling through on the route Villazon, Tupiza, Sucre, Cochabamba, La Paz, Copacabana. The locals rate is 3.5 Bobs and the tourist rate is 8.5 bobs. At some stations they didn't serve us but then 200 metres down the road they did. Once we paid the locals rate, twice we paid the full rate and once we got a discount (Copacabana) to 7.5 bobs. Always ask for 'Sin Boleto' and see what they say. It just an impression but it seemed as if the mainstream service stations like YPFB (an offshoot of the Argentine main petrol company YPF perhaps?) were the strictest and the 'rougher' looking stations less strict. There is also fuel widely available from little shops at the sides of the road from drums (although we had no need to use them). The fuel we got does not have it's rating showing but I think it was 84 Octane. Other than the fuel we got in Sucre which caused our bike to not want to start for about 10 turnovers of the engine we had no problems with any of the fuel we bought.
A general comment if it's helpful - in our brief experience we found the Bolivians notably different from the Argentinians and the Peruvians. They are more reserved and quite traditional it seemed to us. That doesn't mean less friendly, far from it, very polite and helpful but more reserved, less 'smiley' and somewhat shyer and less likely to openly look at you and the bike or come up and chat to you. However, on a 4WD tour we went on our Bolivian driver and cook once we got to know them over a few days were as chatty and friendly with us as anyone in South America. The roads are mixed, the scenery is stunning. There are very few places out on the road to pull over and get food (e.g. cafes) just plenty of small stalls selling fizzy drinks like Coke. Grab some bread, make up some rolls for your lunch and find a scenic lunch spot! Bolivia, not to be missed! (& that's from someone who had a dodgy tummy there for 3 weeks so it must be good)

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Sorry I meant to say before closing off re fuel - we are on a BMW R1200 GSA which is fuel injected, no carbs.
Also, if you are considering riding into La Paz be prepared for extremely congested and fume choked riding down very steep hills into the city from El Alto above and then of course reversing that and coming up hill on the way out. Riding into La Paz is not for the faint hearted, it's challenging. We paid a taxi driver 30 bobs to lead us back out because we got thoroughly lost - but that's just us!

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