To try and explain why I made such a stupid error....
I had been to Ypres in Belgium to visit the war graves and the Menin Gate, it rained solidly all the way there and all the way back of a 900 mile trip but was actually quite nice while I was there.
Anyway on the way back to the Eurotunnel I pulled in for fuel at a service station where one pump (at the end) was available, the pump said "PETROLE" on it and it had a green hose and nozzle. The spout did not quite fit in the tank (THIS IS WHERE I WAS THICK) but I put this down to a quirk of the Frenchies! I squeezed off 0.85 litres of agricultural diesel into a quarter full tank before the smell made me realise it was not unleaded.
I topped up with unleaded to the brim and set off fully expecting the bike to start playing up somewhere up the road but it didn't. I filled up again on the M11 and got back to North Yorkshire on that tankful.
I spoke to my dealer the next day and the service bloke said that it should be okay and if it was going to go wrong it would have done before now.
I left the bike for a week then went out with heavy mate on the back the following weekend. The bike sounded and went fine up to around 5000 revs but it sounds "different" than normal after that and feels down on power - that could be due to there being 200kg (31 stone) of Yorkshire meat on it though.
So, my question which of the following do you advise:
A) Back to dealer for strip down and huge bill
B) Just keep riding it hard until it clears itself of any remaining Frog oil
C) Trade it in for a BMW S1000XR and don't mention the diesel.
D) Bung some Redex in it and announce a new Pope with the smoke
Ashamed of Yorkshire
I had been to Ypres in Belgium to visit the war graves and the Menin Gate, it rained solidly all the way there and all the way back of a 900 mile trip but was actually quite nice while I was there.
Anyway on the way back to the Eurotunnel I pulled in for fuel at a service station where one pump (at the end) was available, the pump said "PETROLE" on it and it had a green hose and nozzle. The spout did not quite fit in the tank (THIS IS WHERE I WAS THICK) but I put this down to a quirk of the Frenchies! I squeezed off 0.85 litres of agricultural diesel into a quarter full tank before the smell made me realise it was not unleaded.
I topped up with unleaded to the brim and set off fully expecting the bike to start playing up somewhere up the road but it didn't. I filled up again on the M11 and got back to North Yorkshire on that tankful.
I spoke to my dealer the next day and the service bloke said that it should be okay and if it was going to go wrong it would have done before now.
I left the bike for a week then went out with heavy mate on the back the following weekend. The bike sounded and went fine up to around 5000 revs but it sounds "different" than normal after that and feels down on power - that could be due to there being 200kg (31 stone) of Yorkshire meat on it though.
So, my question which of the following do you advise:
A) Back to dealer for strip down and huge bill
B) Just keep riding it hard until it clears itself of any remaining Frog oil
C) Trade it in for a BMW S1000XR and don't mention the diesel.
D) Bung some Redex in it and announce a new Pope with the smoke
Ashamed of Yorkshire
