I don't beleive it!

I have got to buy some bike oil.

I haven't got any. I find that incredible.

You know how it is, you collect all sorts of odd half bottles of various
lubricants over the years. I my minds eye I could lubricate anything
from a cross channel swimmer to the space shuttle. I can't lubricate
the engine on a bandit from stock though. I haven't even got any
ordinary car oil.

Which begs the question: What *can't* I put in there?

Quickly now, I have got to nip out and buy some oil.

 

Make sure it's 10W-40, and pay as much as you think you need to.

 

Oh dear.

An elephant, a widescreen TV, a vulcan bomber, a hot air balloon, a mob of
angry marmosets...

 

steve auvache says...

I'll tell you what it has in there. Putoline semi-synth 10W/40.

 

Isn't that a bit extravagant for a B6? Mine never got anything more
than bog-standard Castrol, which AFAIK was ordinary mineral oil.

 

DR says...

I use semi-synth in all modern high revving multi cylinder road going
engines. By that I mean anything that revs over 10K rpm as normal. For
more agricultural/slower revving machinery I stick with decent quality
mineral oil. Because it's so cheap and nasty, I use the cheapest 20/50 I
can lay my hands on in my Honda and it still runs OK.

 

20/50, was that after the cam started making noises?

 

Muck says...

Heh, it would help if I ever bothered to change the oil in that bike,
but at the rate it loses/burns oil it really isn't worth it. That engine
works on the total loss principle, every 500 miles it has fresh oil in
it because it's lost the old lot. It still leaks a fair bit of oil and
sometimes it runs out sooner than expected, a lot of that is also down
to the fact that it is caned everywhere and has done a shitload of
miles. I'm not really bothered because there's a good cam and cylinder
head kicking around here somewhere off the old engine. I reckon I could
rebuild the complete engine for less than 150 quid, so I'll run it into
the ground before I change the cam.

 

Fairy nuff, it does mean that you'd get to use some of those Dremel bits
if you fixed it sooner rather than later.

 

before I topped it up with something you mean. I'll have to go out to
the garage and take a look. I know it was bike oil and probably
castrol.

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