How heavy on the back seat are we talking - 5 ltr water ?Where is the best place to support the front if I do that instead.
Presumably if you use the racing grease the speedo reads faster
These racing lubes may be very good at lubing but may not be designed for the longer term maintenance of a road bike, that probably/possibly may only get oil and lube/grease maintenance once a year.
The manual says Apply lightweight lithium-soap base grease
Quote from: His Dudeness on 22 December 2018, 05:27:25 pmThe manual says Apply lightweight lithium-soap base greaseThe bike is saying "ANYTHING....PLEASE!!!"
Going to go with chocks under headers and a weight on the back to take the the pressure off.Removing the calipers and stringing up to take the weight off the joints. (not that the wheel fitters bother). Some things I have googled Silkolene Pro RG2 GreaseAn advanced, high melting point, racing grease. multi-functional, high performance grease with exceptional heat resisting and waterproofing properties. It has outstanding water repellence, excellent corrosion inhibition properties and high resistance to water wash-off. It is ideal for bearing and chassis lubrication and conditions of water impact.PRO RG2 is designed to meet the stringent requirements of competition use, including off-road, and stays in place, even under high temperatures created in competition use. This high cling formula is ideal for protecting wheel bearings, universal joints, suspension linkages and seals under the most testing conditions. Use for wheel bearing, rose joint, marine applications and all general automotive greasing. MOLY EP LITHIUM GREASE is a smooth textured high melting point, water resistant lithium base grease fortified with molybdenum disulfide (moly) to reduce wear by maintaining lubrication under conditions of high friction and shock loads. Moly GreaseMoly grease is generally used for high pressure metal sliding against metal situations.Greases containing moly are recommended for roller bearings subjected to very heavy loads and shock loading, especially in slow, or oscillating motion such as found in universal joints and CV joints. If such greases are used in high-speed bearings, problems can be experienced with roller "skidding" where the bearing roller fails to rotate through the full 360 degrees due to reduced friction. As a result, the roller develops flat spots, and its service life is reduced. In addition, CV joint/Moly grease is often manufactured to NLGI Grade 1 and would therefore not be suitable for automotive wheel bearings. Multi-purpose Lithium-based GreaseLithium grease is used in bearings where there are rollers, or balls under the load. Grease made with lithium soap (lithium grease) sticks particularly well to metal, is non-corrosive, can be used under heavy loads, and has good temperature tolerance. With its resistance to moisture, it is commonly used as lubricant in household products, such as electric garage doors, as well as in automotive applications, such as Constant Velocity (CV) Joints.
I still don't know which one to use, I like the RG2 one because it looks like strawberry jam. The Lith-moly one is dark grey and looks dirty.Interesting though about using Moly grease on high speed bearings being too slippery meaning the rolling bearing does not rotate but slips across the surface causing a flat sopt.Also I read that when talking about "high speed" its something like 10,000 rmp -dont think even Tommy's Fazer wheel bearings go that fast
I would use Lithium multi-purpose grease as used on the wheel bearings/axle as Yamaha advise as the bearings/rota are connected & mixing two different types may affect the performance of both if mixed, unless you strip the wheel down to clean the bearings out then use just one type only.
It says use lithium based grease not lithium grease so what you have should do fine. I used this stuff just because that's all I had and there was no problems