Battery Life

Torquex2 said:

Premium gives you neither more power, nor faster burning of fuel. In fact regular burns much faster than premium. That’s it’s problem. Regular burns to fast. Under load, at high revs, and at maximum engine temps, regular actually “ pre-ignites” your engines timing. This causes pinging, valve floating, and loss of HP. Premium is designed to only ignite when your engines timing, and spark plugs tells it to. Dramatically increasing efficiency, fuel mileage, and the HP your engine was designed to deliver.

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Tripps said:

I can't think of any scientific explanation as to why you would get more power from premium, but if you say so.
As far as batteries, I'm a huge fan of Motobatt, I've gradually converted all my bikes over, they can sit a month and start no problem. If you Google Texas Toast battery cookoff, you'll see they beat out all the other batteries for multiple starts and long life.

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Tripps said:

I don't know, truthfully

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Torquex2 said:

You’d notice the difference if you were towing a heavy load. Especially up hills. I have an RV camper trailer. I drive a V8 5.7 Tundra. We have very steep, long mountain hills where I live here in B.C. If I put regular grade fuel (87 octane) here, in my truck, not only can I barely make it to the top of the long hard ones in first gear, I can literally almost see my fuel gauge going down in real time. When I use 94 octane premium, there’s a massive difference in the uphill pulling power. And I get almost a quarter of a tank better fuel savings. Downside of course is that because premium is so very expensive, it’s costly to accomplish both goals of power and mileage.

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Torquex2 said:

For the average commuter, to or from worker, or Sunday driver,....NO, you’ll never notice the difference. If you pull heavy loads, drive high HP vehicles, and temp fate by trying to pass all 7 of those cars in front of you on your R3r . ( premium probably saves my life). You’ll definitely notice a difference .

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MIG said:

My Ford '16 F-150 owners manual does say for towing or heavy loads, to use Premium. I thought that was strange, but I do run premium.
-MIG

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BCRedHaze said:

I am still on my original Yuasa battery that came with the bike (9+ years). Always on a tender (have gone through 3 of those) when not riding.

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MIG said:

My Ford '16 F-150 owners manual does say for towing or heavy loads, to use Premium. I thought that was strange, but I do run premium.
-MIG

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Torquex2 said:

If you just run around town in your Ford, site see, or help your buddy move a couple pieces of furniture,... you’ll never notice a difference. Don’t waste your money. Simply described....Octane is not a measure of power...,It’s a measure of control....of power.

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Gregger said:

I'm the same as you. My original Yuasa on my 2012 Roadster wasn't replaced until last year. 8+ years. Always on a tender when parked for more than a couple of days. I replaced it because I noticed the bike was beginning to struggle when cold on initial startup. Put another Yuasa in place with a higher CCA capacity and should be good to go for many years. I have always had good success with Yuasa batteries. Not so with some cheaper batteries on some of my other rides which left me needing a push start or a boost. On long trips, I always carried an XP-1 Antigravity Jump Battery for emergencies. Never needed it for my own bike so far but have helped several other owners.

My chum was at Americade in New York years ago on his Gold Wing. Yuasa had a booth there for advertising. They were polling bike owners about their experiences with Yuasa batteries. My chum told them he still had his original battery in place (over 10 years old at the time) and that it was always stored with a tender. The rep commended him for using a tender and offered to replace his battery with a new one for free (they wanted to keep his old battery to study it). The rep stated that using a tender greatly extends the life of a lead acid battery. He took them up on the offer...

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