I've just been talking with a riding buddy here in Houston that has a Terra on order. He plans on taking his up to Alaska and then across Canada on the Trans Lab Trail this summer. The question is whether the Terra will operate on regular grade gas if careful throttle input is used, or if the bike can be remapped for regular. Is there a knock sensor in the bike? If so, then regular could be used when nothing else is available. At high altitude this is probably not an issue, but within several thousand feet of sea level there could be issues. Are there any users or dealers with some inside baseball info on this?
I was thinking about running a small amount of regular through the bike just to see what would happen. Another option would be to carry a 5 oz. bottle of octane booster with us on our travels. A lot of remote places have few choices...
Not that they are even close to being the same bike, but I routinely ran regular in my Tenere and never noticed a bit of difference. When available I always ran premium. Be interesting to see how the Terra reacts.
You'll find up north they have high octane gas because cars won't start on 84 up there........ too cold
