In order to help me pick a fight with a magazine editor, can someone with a USA model NC750X tell what the Honda owner’s manual recommends for fuel octane, along with it’s octane measurement method? I assume it’s 86 or better, using the R+M/2, or Anti-Knock Index methods common in the U.S.
The latest digital edition of Motorcycle Consumers News features a 2018 NC750X. The specs listed in that article shows a Fuel Grade of 91 octane for that motorcycle. It does not list the octane measurement method. Now if I knew nothing about the 750 and saw that 91 octane spec, I would probably forget about that bike as I would never buy a machine that required 91 octane. These magazines need to get their act together.
The latest digital edition of Motorcycle Consumers News features a 2018 NC750X. The specs listed in that article shows a Fuel Grade of 91 octane for that motorcycle. It does not list the octane measurement method. Now if I knew nothing about the 750 and saw that 91 octane spec, I would probably forget about that bike as I would never buy a machine that required 91 octane. These magazines need to get their act together.
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