It's my newbie understanding that if you're planning to store the bike, you can add stabilizer to the gas, run the bike awhile to be sure the "stabilized" fuel has run through the carbs, and then safely store the machine. In an untreated fuel system, leaving an entirely empty tank and carburetors might allow water vapor present in the vacated spaces to settle out and begin to cause corrosion. I can't refer anybody to any research, this is just 'received wisdom'. The most fanatically maintenance-minded man I know (who has owned, I'm told, about 25 bikes in his many years of riding and now has a Suziki V-Strom and that Suzi "best of 2001" dual purpose)says the stabilizer works fine for him. Says a lot to me.
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