I’ve been around the “oil” forums and conversations enough to know that 99% of the conversation lays around “what does the manual say.” Which in my opinion is completely oblivious to the whole intent of this forum.
With that said I have a ‘fancy’ European bike that truthfully just sits sounds 99% of the time. With that being said I don’t care about your “what does the manual say?” posts. I understand where these conversations come from and the argument of it, and truthfully it’s not for me because I feel that we can do better.
What I do care about is, realistically, how long are engines good without running? Well as you’d imagine this is not that uncommon issue. Okay I get it, this is not that interesting and per Google let’s run it once a month to lube everything up just to be safe.
Part 2 of this question. Euro brands of quart/liter of oil are pretty pricey. Pricey enough that getting a used oil analysis might be cost effective, even despite running alternatives such as Redline or Amsoil. Let’s says you started said motorcycle one a month and let it idle or you rode it around one month. However every 6 months you ran a UOA and the numbers came out great. With your intuition you drained 1qt/liter every 6 months and topped it off with a fresh bottle, since you’re a BITOG member, would you look any further? The engine is getting a dose of top tier synthetic oil. A dose of fresh oil with anti-whatever/oxidative additives while running once running once a month to coat everything and the UOA come out great.
Do you think sticking to a 1 quart changed every 2 months + UOA is enough or would you blatantly stick to oil change every 6 months because they manual says do?
With that said I have a ‘fancy’ European bike that truthfully just sits sounds 99% of the time. With that being said I don’t care about your “what does the manual say?” posts. I understand where these conversations come from and the argument of it, and truthfully it’s not for me because I feel that we can do better.
What I do care about is, realistically, how long are engines good without running? Well as you’d imagine this is not that uncommon issue. Okay I get it, this is not that interesting and per Google let’s run it once a month to lube everything up just to be safe.
Part 2 of this question. Euro brands of quart/liter of oil are pretty pricey. Pricey enough that getting a used oil analysis might be cost effective, even despite running alternatives such as Redline or Amsoil. Let’s says you started said motorcycle one a month and let it idle or you rode it around one month. However every 6 months you ran a UOA and the numbers came out great. With your intuition you drained 1qt/liter every 6 months and topped it off with a fresh bottle, since you’re a BITOG member, would you look any further? The engine is getting a dose of top tier synthetic oil. A dose of fresh oil with anti-whatever/oxidative additives while running once running once a month to coat everything and the UOA come out great.
Do you think sticking to a 1 quart changed every 2 months + UOA is enough or would you blatantly stick to oil change every 6 months because they manual says do?
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