My 99 Legend manual (originally purchased in Canada) lists the requirements for fuel in the European format - 95 RON. Some research on this came up with the following from Wikipedia - "However most European pumps deliver 95 (RON) as "regular", equivalent to 90-91 US (R+M)/2."
Interesting - my manual says 87 octane, and the T-Bird runs fine on it for 40k miles. Maybe those Keihins are more sensitive? The engine is reasonably low compression, and really shouldn't need anything higher than 87 octane.
The fuelie 955 Sprint runs on 89. It has higher compression though.
Running premium in these bikes is just a waste of good money. BUT - some premiums have higher detergent levels, so are not bad to run once in a while as a fuel system cleaner.
I have a 2000 Legend TT - Green Goblin. I use 89 octane or mid-grade - the bike runs very well and gets approx 48-52 Mpg on open road at 60 mph. No backfiring or burbeling in the pipes. I have tried 87 octane and it runs OK but you can tell a difference in performance and mileage.
Even taching as high as they do they still get very respectable fuel results.
I learned during hurricanes Ivan and Katrina when premium fuel was not available that my Legend 2001 runs as well on regular as it does on premium. I was reluctant to try it until I had no choice. I have used reg. ever since.It is at 50,000 and it's going strong.
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, what grade of gas for 2000 legend ???
What grade of fuel to use.
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