What I want to know is at what point does oil become either car oil or bike oil? does it come from different oil wells, don't think so, does it go to different refineries, doubt it, does it have different additives, yes it can have a milage enhancer like PTFE and this could make your clutch slip, does it undergo different testing, yes the grading is different (the letters and numbers) for car and bike oils but it doesn't mean the oil is different.What we need is the person who puts the labels on the cans of oil to tells us the facts. I know bike engines tend to rev higher than cars do but which has to do the most work, a 1000cc bike at 200Kg plus max of 2 people or a 1400cc car around 1000Kg plus up to 5 (or more) people?Oh and I use GTX 10/40w semi in my FZ6 which is around £23 but the last lot I bought at £10 for 4 litres at wilco's in a sale and also got some 15/40w for my other bike at half price in 1 litre packs as it takes 5 litres.
Think everyone agrees bikes are harder on oil than cars and yet they design bike engines so that one oil has to do all the jobs. Seems mad. I wonder why they don't separate the component parts of a bike engine like gearbox, clutch, cylinder and then have an oil for each section? An engine would have to last longer. Maybe that's why they don't do it
Hey Fazersharp! If you rub them in it, it will waterproof them and when you take them out of the tank to play with them the water runs off the instantly, but what I like the most is if you squeeze them really hard you can get them to shoot from one side of the room to the other, they love it