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Plain old multi-grade dino oil for me. Haven't had any oil related problems with it, so I haven't seen a reason to change.

I frequent the cartalk forums a quite a bit. This is a HUGE debate topic on the forum and the subject pops up once a month for YEARS. A lot of top automotive mechanic will tell you to use whatever the owner's manual suggests. This makes a lot of sense since the engineers of those automobiles are the guys writing the specs and maintenance intervals of the cars they design. I see this making sense in the motorcycle world as well. This is the link that is often referenced whenever the oil debate turns up: http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/

Enjoy~

-Strad

If Mobil 1 is so great why don't they have the guts to test their own oil with all the other major brands and post it online and make it public information for everybody to see? Amsoil tests their own oil against Mobil 1, and whats funny to me is some conventional, cheap, non-synthetic rate higher than Mobil 1. By law to classify any oil as a synthetic all the moelecules must be exactly the same, but its legal to use anything as the exact same moelcule, like somebody can use old french fry cooking oil from a burger joint and call it synthetic motor oil. I kinda like to know what im pouring in my engine, whats it made from, the base they use. You guys that never used Amsoil don't have any idea what your missing, you guys that buy Mobil 1 believe just because it costs $9 a quart it has to be good, slick marketing tricks and you guys fall for it. My engine has 6000 miles and "0" internal engine wear, whats in your engine?

....so you send your oil out for analisys at every change? What was the Fe content on your last change? Si? Cu?

MotoF150 wrote:If Mobil 1 is so great why don't they have the guts to test their own oil with all the other major brands and post it online and make it public information for everybody to see?

If Amsoil is so great, why isn't it on the shelves at Wal-Mart and AutoZone like every other oil brand? This whole "Amway" sales strategy is getting really old, especially for a company that has been around for decades.

MotoF150 wrote:Amsoil tests their own oil against Mobil 1, and whats funny to me is some conventional, cheap, non-synthetic rate higher than Mobil 1.

Link?

MotoF150 wrote:By law to classify any oil as a synthetic all the moelecules must be exactly the same, but its legal to use anything as the exact same moelcule, like somebody can use old french fry cooking oil from a burger joint and call it synthetic motor oil.

Implying that Mobil-1 is made from used french-fry oil?

MotoF150 wrote:You guys that never used Amsoil don't have any idea what your missing, you guys that buy Mobil 1 believe just because it costs $9 a quart it has to be good, slick marketing tricks and you guys fall for it.

Amsoils's website reads like a cheesy 2:00am infomercial. Half the time I expect to see some mentally challenged old guy in a Riddler costume run across the screen.

Guys that use Mobil-1 report lower operating temperatures, cleaner internals, and smoother shifting. Give people a little credit, Moto. If none of that were the case, no one would keep buying it.

MotoF150 wrote:My engine has 6000 miles and "0" internal engine wear

Had it torn apart did ya? I thought so.

And, doesn't your bike backfire through the exhaust and throttle body? Sounds like positive testimony to me!





(for the record, I like Amsoil. I'm just not going to hang my head in shame for buying the more readily available Mobil-1)

I find this sort of cultish devotion to a motor oil to be kind of creepy. It's just oil, Moto! It's not a magic elixer that will solve all your problems.

flynrider wrote:I find this sort of cultish devotion to a motor oil to be kind of creepy. It's just oil, Moto! It's not a magic elixer that will solve all your problems.

Wow - I never thot my thread would cause this much furor.

Microsoft vs. Apple Computers.....discuss...

BubbaGump wrote:
Microsoft vs. Apple Computers.....discuss...

Oh God...dont start!

Anyway now that they use Intel chips in Macs and they've already hacked Windows onto it (took what, a week?) who cares anymore

BubbaGump wrote:

flynrider wrote:I find this sort of cultish devotion to a motor oil to be kind of creepy. It's just oil, Moto! It's not a magic elixer that will solve all your problems.

Wow - I never thot my thread would cause this much furor.

Microsoft vs. Apple Computers.....discuss...

Linux!

Anywho, I've checked for the Mobil 1 10w40 synthetic and can't find it anywhere. Several other weights in synthetic but not the 10w40. Strange.

t_bonee wrote:Anywho, I've checked for the Mobil 1 10w40 synthetic and can't find it anywhere. Several other weights in synthetic but not the 10w40. Strange.

Dealership? All the ones around here carry it.