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It was getting pretty popular to update and re-tune certain sportbikes for E85 as I was getting out of the scene (only a couple years ago now). Many had really impressive NA power figures (lots of compression and revs can make use of the octane), but made the bikes almost unusable for street riding from diminished fuel economy/range. On 93 octane my ZX10 only had a range of 110 miles (plus or minus 10). Removing 40% of that meant I couldn't make it to the next nearest city for fuel (and E85 isn't as available here even now, years later).
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