My friend just returned from Morocco to Poland on his Africa Twin. He told me about the transport strike which is affecting fuel deliveries. No more unleaded left in some parts of Morocco. So he had to buy some kind of motor "oil" for 2-stroke engines mixed with something. No idea what was that . His bike was more or less ok on that stuff but he saw some modern EFI bikes which couldn't run on that.

I met your friend at BikersHome in Ouarzazate, he's a real laugh/nutter and left us with some extremely strong orange-flavoured vodka. He still had half a tank of petrol so the two-stroke mixture ended up being diluted 50/50 from normal. Those of us on more modern bikes, including two on T�n�r�s, ended up being stranded for several days waiting for tankers to break through the picket lines.

Anyway, whilst in Morocco in mid April the fuel stations were changing over to new fuel types as their tanks were being refilled and were placing new sticky labels over the previous pump descriptions. The extremely smelly diesel and the high-spec Eurodiesel 350 have been replaced by a single standard Eurodiesel 50. I would guess E50 isn't as good as E350 but I really have no idea what the difference is, sorry.

The previous leaded super and 'sans plomb' unleaded have been replaced by a single super unleaded. No idea about additives or octane rating, though I guess it would be 95 RON or better. No information either on the situation regarding the previously leaded-only supplies south of Tan Tan.

By the time I left the country on 28 April the changeover was complete.

Tim

Yeah, he is a real nutter. He was going to ride to Morocco with another guy but that guy resigned just before the trip. So he ended up going there alone - not bad ;) - he bought his first bike and did his driving licecnce one year ago.

He told me that he had much less than 50% in his tank, but it was still enough to mix for his AT.

It's good to hear that Morocco is going unleaded.

I found an interesting link:
http://www.lead.org.au/fs/fst27.html

1. Algeria
2. Morocco
3. Tunisia
4. Western Sahara

in Africa.

Apart from that I think that they missed Mongolia.

missed quite a few places.........and we are 2010...Leaded only available...It's all due to the price....think about the locals ! Unleaded 2.75 le as apposed to 1.40 le for leaded. (and this is Egypt)

Unleaded only available in Alexandria and Cairo....( or Lahami :3some:)

Can anyone please give info on what (or how many) km the ten can go with stock exhuast on leaded fuel ?

Thankyou
Cheers