[jb882]

Welcome to the forum Joe. All advice above is valid. So is your solution if it works for you, but Apolloha beat me to the punch on canned gas. It might work well for a bigger thumper like the TW (my face crunched up just typing that), but we have run into the same fuel issues on rescue saws and other small engines at work. Here in Arizona, ethanol free gas is less prevalent, and with the summer heat, we have the same problems with gas going bad if the "motorized item" isn't run and exercised at least twice a month... long enough to run a fair amount of fuel through the system. And our firemen just don't do that. So they switched to canned fuel, VP ethanol free 110 octane mixed 40:1, thinking it was the ethanol causing problems. Well, that caused other problems, primarily causing plastic fuel tank and lines to turn rock hard and brittle.

All that to say, my best results have been with adding an ounce per gallon of Sea Foam to everything other than my daily, and it never goes bad in my bikes, which are seldom ridden. My Yamaha inverter generator has had the same Sea Foam gas in it for 5 years and still starts on the second pull, and I only fire it up once a year and let it run for a half hour. When I maintain the rescue saws at work, I use the same cheap gas with Sea Foam and pre-mix, and the fuel lines stay supple, and the unit runs great until they run it dry and add their canned stuff. Fast forward a few months and the saws are back in our shop with the same problems. My opinion is that gas with ethanol isn't a problem if you add a little Sea Foam (or fuel treatment of your choice) and make sure it's run through the carb before shutting it down. If you choose to run the carb dry each time you shut down, and if the unit isn't run again for many months, you can end up with dry gaskets, seals, and lines (in my experience), so I would rather keep the system wet with treated fuel. I think of it like pump armor used in paint sprayers. Anyway, there are plenty of opinions here on the forum. Lots of great info. Enjoy that new bike... it's a beaut!

That has been my personal experience too. I tried the canned stuff in my weedeater and chain saws and they did not run well on it at all. Even after trying to tune the carburetors they would not rev the same and my stihl chainsaw seemed down on power compared to pump gas. I even tried Stihl's extra super expensive gas in a can and it was the same. When i lived in Mass and could only get e10 at the pump i just used that and ran marine stabil in it and i never had problems with any of my equipment.

These days the only things that i have that run on gas are my TW's and my generator and since i am constantly moving i can generally find non ethanol somewhere and that is what i fill the tanks with in my toyhauler.