Does fuel grade have an impact?

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basilpeetz

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I am not much of a techhie so some advice please ??? The manual recommends 95 unleaded fuel for my 800 GS. On Friday we were on quite a long ride and when we stopped to refuel the garage only had 93 unleaded. After filling up with 93 and travelling about 90km's the bike started cutting out intermittently. I managed to keep going and when it got to about half a tank I filled up again with 95 unleaded and all seems fine again. Can fuel grade have such an effect or is it possible that I got a bad batch of fuel with the 93 fill up?
 
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