Re: Octane Rating

[Rich Weyand <weyand@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:59 AM 4/6/99 -0400, Eric Sheley wrote:

>The following is from the Triumph Sprint ST service manual and hopefully
>will clear things up:
>
>Fuel Requirements - USA
>
>In the United States of America where the octane rating of fuel is measured
>in a different way, the following information may be applied: Triumph
>Motorcycles are designed to run on unleaded gasoline with a CLC or AKI
>octane rating (R+M)/2 of 89 or higher.

Excellent.  Thanks for the note, Eric.  I had assumed the RON was what in
the US is called the research octane, but apparently it's not the same.
_BUT_ now we have the correct info.


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