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I'm a new rider (only had my bike for a month - suzuki m50) so if I'm doing or saying something completely wrong, please let me know.
This weekend I took a long drive to my friends house (probably a little further than I should have at this point), and my bike ran fine on the way up.
30 miles into the ride back, when I stopped to get gas I noticed that my right leg was coated in an oily fluid, and there was oily splatter all over the right side of the bike. A little poking around and I found that the fluid was coming from the air filter box.
Not knowing my bike as well as I probably should, I wasn't about to start poking around looking for a cause that I still wouldn't have been able to fix, so I decided to take it home and deal with it from there. Since I still had 80 miles ahead of me and I was worried that if the oil kept leaking the bike would overheat I dropped in another quart.
After riding 100 yards I noticed that when I reved the engine a large cloud f white smoke would come from the pipes, and then the bike just turned off, and poured oil out of the air filter. When I pulled over to the shoulder, I found that I couldn't restart the bike, and the power wasn't running.
Now from what I read last night, I am assuming that the bike stopped working because the extra quart of oil I added got (can someone explain how this works) into the air filter and blocked the flow into the bike starving it. Is this reasonable?
If that is true, I don't understand what would have caused the air filter to start leaking oil, when after 100 miles a day and a half earlier there was nothing wrong with it and no oil added. Does anyone have any idea what would cause this and how to stop it from happening again?
Also, if I change out the air filter and keep the level of oil lower will the bike run again?

Depending on the bike, you can't just jam more and more oil in without it going somewhere. Do you know how to check the oil on your bike? Most new ones have a little dipstick, but some of the old ones use a glass window that is difficult to read (have to get your friend to hold the bike upright, or put it on the centerstand).

Dont ride till you have changed the oil and put in the proper amount.your overfilling of the oil will cause it to come out the cam cover breather tube which goes from the top of the engine to the airbox.Your engine is taking on too much pressure and that is why it's running bad.Check with your local dealer and see how much oil it takes and how to check it.Normally you would check a bike on the center stand on level ground and after the bike has sat for at least an hour so the oil has time to get to the crankcase.I have worked on bike for 30 years mostly inline 4's but all bike are relatively the same.Get a manual and read it from cover to cover to really get to know your bike.