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[val]

Bet you have been asked a 1,000 times before,08 leanburn electra,castrol 15w-40 semi or castrol 20w-50.thanks val.

[Leon Novello]

Any mineral motorcycle oil will be fine. Particularly, don`t use semi or full synthetic if running-in a new engine or new parts in it; they have friction modifiers which make them more slippery so it will take ages to run-in new parts. New vehicles which recommend synthetic are usually run-in at the factory to avoid this problem. So you can drive them at normal speed from the showroom.

[jaffa90]

Lean burn engines run hotter, synthetic oils can handle this heat better,20/50 mineral oil is a no no. Make sure you use motorcycle oil and not car oil.

[Midge]

Click on 'Catalogue on line button', go to page 11. Mr H knows best!

[Alan R]

Whatever it says in the riders handbook, perhaps ??

[PeteF]

Jaffa and Leon, I thought the main difference with a motorcycle oil was that they are formulated to deal with a wet clutch.
As this is not the case here why would not a car oil do the job?
There didn't use to be such a thing and we managed well enough.

[jaffa90]

Your right PeteF, bike oil only is for wet clutches.

[Leon Novello]

Motorcycle oils have full zinc protection, unlike automobile oils which have less because zinc damages the catalytic converters. It is compensated for by using more expensive synthetic oils.
http://www.penriteoil.com.au/products-c ... id_categ=7

[PeteF]

Interesting link but it was written by an oil manufacturer.
Oh dear, my cynical side seems to be showing again.

[PeteF]

Try reading this http://www.ducatimeccanica.com/oil.html