Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use?

[His Dudeness]

Hands up anyone who's had engine failure or a shortened engine life (not sure how you'd know?) after using/changing cheaper oil at regular intervals?




Anyone.......?  :rolleyes

even if you had two identical bikes with one of them running a cheaper brand oil than the other you'd never get an accurate comparison there's just too many variables.

personally i'm not that worried about the brand of oil i use but i'll always use a bike specific oil. the main reason being that a bikes engine does twice the rpm of a car engine and i want to have the reassurance that the oil i'm using has been designed and tested for that application. sure at full wack a fazer engine would be rotating at 250 times a second! every time you count 1 the valves have opened 250 times, the pistons have gone up and down 250 times etc etc and the only thing stopping the whole thing eating itself is the oil,  it's mad stuff when you think about it. for the sake of saving 10-15 quid i'll go for the bike specific oil every time

[Jacko]

my bike's 14 years old and any oil out there is of higher spec than it
says in the book.
I just avoid the friction reducers which means using cheaper stuff. (Wilkos)

70,000 miles and doing ok.

I'd say put in what makes you happy. Bit like petrol, regular or supa dupa, you choose.

[phillywilly]

Oh no, the oil question!  :'(


(This one will run for a while but just use any 10W 40 semi synthetic)

enough said 

[Jc72]

My bro had an rgv250 for 3years and did way over the mileage expected for those fragile engines to do, he used it on track days and all year round, and never had to rebuild it, my point being that he used to use silkolene oil can't remember which one but it was the most expensive oil you could get, he was at the time some sort of  chemical engineer for the military, don't know any more cos its classified, but he knows about molecules and that kind of stuff, anyway he sold his bike to my neighbour, told him to use the silkolene oil, the reply was not paying that cheap stuff will do the same, 300 miles later and it was being rebuilt! After that said neighbour used silkolene  and did 13000 miles on that bike before some tow rag nicked it and it was going great, I know it's 2 stroke oil but I personally will always get the best that I can for car or bike.

[wezdavo]

I use Motul 10w 40 semi synth..

[JZS 600]

I just  changed mine yesterday, I used HG 10w 40 semi synth.


I think this is the same as Motul, just £10 cheaper!

[spider]

are we talking about oil. i change mine every 1,000 miles

[Fazerider]

Hein Gericke are having a 30% off day today.... though I didn't look at their oil when in there as I have a two-year stockpile from when they were flogging it off cheap last June. The on-line store doesn't list 4 litre cans of their own brand 10W-40, but they might have some in retail outlets if you're near one of those that didn't get culled last year.

[darrsi]

are we talking about oil. i change mine every 1,000 miles

That's an expensive bad habit you have there???  :eek

[JZS 600]

Told you this would run and run    :lol

[ade the blade]

mazola or spry ( with the chip crispies filtered out )  :lol

[red98]

mazola or spry ( with the chip crispies filtered out )  :lol

thats more like it        :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin

halfords bike oil changed every year at mot time 

[slimwilly]

When i change my oil , i take out the filler cap, yeh, then how do i tip the bike up to empty it? :rolleyes

[JZS 600]

Prolonged wheelie,,,,,,