A hint: if you get the hose from your local Honda shop, make sure it has a dull red stripe on the side of the hose, along its length. This is the mark for "ethanol-impervious" hose.
I recently got a bunch of Mercedes hose listed as "ethanol resistant", which means it does not become inflexible, but it has proven to shrink, thus making it very hard to remove after a while (even though it is still very soft and flexible, a year later). The red-striped stuff I got from Honda (and others, like Sudco) does not shrink.
