Old Honda CBR600F (+others) owners check you fuel lines!

[Prof Prolapse]

My house stunk of petrol this morning.

So straight to the attached garage and bike…



Jelly like substance leached outside the line.



Thumbnail will tear it now.



Bodged.

fk knows how many more lines about to pop due to stty E10 fuel.

For me this was a significant fire hazard.

This is a 99-00 CBR 600 F, so those of you with similar vintage Hondas really do need to check!

Edited by Prof Prolapse on Saturday 25th September 11:23

[Biker 1]

Are you sure that is a result of E10 & not just stale fuel/elderly pipework???
I thought Hondas of that vintage would be E10 compatible(??)

[fred bloggs]

Looks more like an over tightened jubilee clip to me.

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Biker 1 said:

I thought Hondas of that vintage would be E10 compatible(??)

I thought any carby motor shouldn’t be run on e10?

[Prof Prolapse]

No argument jubilee clip was too tight and definitely aggravated the failure.

No reason that would result in the hose turning to sponge though. No others have failed.

I’m changing mine but you guys are free to make your own choices.

[SAS Tom]

I think that’s more 20 year old hose rather than anything to do with E10.

[podman]

Yes, thats not happened over the last few week due to a few hundred miles of E10.

BUT its a good reminder, ive never checked the CBRs fuel lines, from memory they are supposed to be changed every 5 or 10 years..will have a look this Winter anyway.

[Scorched yellow]

MCN says Honda says every one of its bikes since 1993 is compatible with E10

[_Neal_]

Agreed. Seems highly unlikely to be anything to do with E10 but a good reminder to check hoses etc on older bikes.

[podman]

_Neal_ said:

Agreed. Seems highly unlikely to be anything to do with E10 but a good reminder to check hoses etc on older bikes.

So much BS about E10...the post above above about no carb'd bikes running on it is fairly typical now.

Our friends in Europe have been running their classics on it for a few years now and ive done a fair few miles on the older bikes in France on E10 with no issues...leaving it sat for to long can cause problems but fuel always did anyway.

[Giles_L]

My bandit just did the same, I replaced both lines about 3 years ago, and now were totally brittle and just fell apart