Rain gear is almost a necessity if you ride as one day you will have to ride in the rain. Make sure the pants fit loose as the first place they tear is the crotch. that makes for a REALLY uncomfortable ride. A good quality rain suit (one or two piece) is a good investment in a dry ride. Totes over your shoes helps too.

AND…  This is one reason I'm driving my scooter to work.  It saves me gas $$ in the car. 

BUT…  I still won't ride in the rain!  Helmet hair is bad enough but wet clothes and shoes are worse. 

AND… No I don't have rain gear

AND… No I don't want to change clothes in the restroom.

Sandy

The cheapest I've found, locally, is £1.17p. per litre. And there's 4.546 litre's to our UK. gallon. That works out to £5.32. per gallon.

And it's ear-marked to go up twice more, this year.

While not wanting to get "Political", on a scooter forum, but seeing we are discussing the price of petrol (GAS), and the tax thats added to it,       I will.

I've said this before, and I'll go on saying it.

(-Once this Financial Crisis is Over-)

As we, the tax payer, are footing the bill, for the running of the country, I think we should have a say, and have access to, WHERE  "Every Penny" is being spent.

It is our right!  There's too many fingers in the honey pot.

We would then, be able to see the extent of the mismanagement, and wastage, that is going on. And insist it stops.  Also, who is claiming for things that should never be claimed for.  This goes FAR beyond the MP's shameful Expenses scandal, which is STILL going on.

I truly believe, that, if this was put right, we wouldn't be paying HALF the tax, that we are paying, right now. That includes the Fuel tax.

End of my Rant.!

It's worth mentioning that the UK Government takes around 70% of the cost of fuel from us as a mix of Fuel Duty and Value Added Tax! And that figure is due to rise and rise as the Chancellor of the Exchequer has promised us that the Duty will rise by 1p a litre from 1 April 2010 with a further 1p rise in October and a further 0.76p payable from January next year. (Previously, the whole increase had been due to apply from 1 April! As if he thought it an April Fool?)

rdinning said:

…….. As fas as I know all Burgmans are designed to run on regular gas. Putting higher octane than they need in will only add to what you pay, not what you get.

….and, I believe, burn out the valves ultimately!? I remember an incident I became involved in as an Air Force officer where we apprehended some people who were stealing 130 octane aviation fuel from our planes to use in their cars! To do so safely they were diluting the Avgas as it is called with stolen hydraulic fluid!! As part of the prosecution evidence the heavily stained components of their carburettors were produced!!

We pay £1.20/$1.78 a Litre,which works out about £6/$8.94 a gallon which is gonna get worse.

Suzuki DID change the whole setup, on the AN400, and the AN650, for the  2007 models. Which I posted about, on here, some time ago.

But that may have been in England, only, I can't say, for sure. As I read about it, in an English scooter magazine.

Alan.T               

Used to use Chevron 93 octain in my 03. Same with my 07 until I did some gas milage figures. Finding the 86 and 93 got the same milage and I could not see a differance in performance. Suzuki must have changed the engine management computer between 03 and 07. 07 I have not had to reset idle like I did on the 03 between summer and winter. Now I use the lowest octain even buy at discount stations when gas is hard to come by.

I am wondering about Gas, and what you'al use.  I have a 650-2008.  Forget millage I want to know what you use and why.

1. Brand, local or national or what ever burns.

2. Octane, 87-89-93 or other

3. Why?

I am finding alot of differences in the gas I buy and the different grades

and I ask, Why is there such a difference from grade to grade from day to day.  Nothing is consistant with millage or performance.

Grant