02-03-2022, 02:35 AM
Nacho, our fleet of scooters sits in a trailer from early October to early March every year. We use Sta-Bil in them for the off-season, and it works fine.
We do have the advantage of finishing our season in an area where we can buy non-ethanol gas, so we don't have that worry. We pour in the Sta-Bil, let the engine run a bit to get it into the fuel system, and good-to-go. Since these are carbureted, we run the engines with the petcocks off to dry out the carbs as much as possible, but you'd just want to make sure it gets into your injection system.
Regarding the oil change issue, I change at 4000 miles, and if it takes a little more than a year to roll that much mileage on any particular bike, I don't worry about it. I change on mileage, not a time range. Now, if I were going to store a bike for a long period of time, that would be a different story.
We do have the advantage of finishing our season in an area where we can buy non-ethanol gas, so we don't have that worry. We pour in the Sta-Bil, let the engine run a bit to get it into the fuel system, and good-to-go. Since these are carbureted, we run the engines with the petcocks off to dry out the carbs as much as possible, but you'd just want to make sure it gets into your injection system.
Regarding the oil change issue, I change at 4000 miles, and if it takes a little more than a year to roll that much mileage on any particular bike, I don't worry about it. I change on mileage, not a time range. Now, if I were going to store a bike for a long period of time, that would be a different story.