{"id":10860,"date":"2026-04-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/?p=10860"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:13:56","slug":"non-ethanol-gas-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/non-ethanol-gas-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-ethanol gas expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gas: 3.696 gallons of E0\/90 @ $3.899\/gal, $14.41. 117.2 miles\/3.696 g = 31.7 mpg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>End at 65,017 (78 miles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had to go ride today\u2014high in the low 60s but only 50 when I left around 9.30. In its mission to make me 100% insane, the bike started on one press of the button with utterly no heroic effort on my part. Choke on full, waited a few seconds after turning on the fuel tap and boom\u2014running! So easy. So infuriating!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set out to get E0 gas in New Kent County. All back roads (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/beeline.co\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/beeline.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Beeline<\/a>!). Glorious ride. Found the place no problem. Not a regular gas station\u2014it looked like some kind of truck\/fleet business. Closed on Sundays. Made my way to a Mobil across the county\u2014all regular gas. Got a drink and a snack. Clerk came out to deal with a customer and on his way back in, I asked if he knew of an E0 pump anywhere near. He pointed and said, \u201cPump 17, right there.\u201d It was over by the diesel pumps for big trucks. Never even looked there. Glad I asked!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dude coming out of the Mobil station\u2019s 7-Eleven store said, \u201cNice bike, buddy. What year is it?\u201d In that moment. I\u2019ve heard that phrase or something like it LITERALLY every time I\u2019ve gone anywhere on the R 90\/6. Later, I went to Publix to get fake feta cheese for dinner that my wife is making tonight. Kid taking groceries to somebody\u2019s car for them said, \u201cDude, I love your bike. What year is it?\u201d Nobody ever says \u201ccool bike\u201d about my GS or even the FTR. NOBODY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking like decent weather for the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_mobil-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10861 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_mobil-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10861 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_mobil-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_mobil-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_mobil-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_mobil.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had to go ride today\u2014high in the low 60s but only 50 when I left around 9.30. In its mission to make me 100% insane, the bike started on one press of the button with utterly no heroic effort on my part. Choke on full, waited a few seconds after turning on the fuel tap and boom\u2014running! So easy. So infuriating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-riding-without-cruise-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10862,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions\/10862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}