Extralube ZX1 question.

[yorkie_chris]

Baffle them with bullsh*t

This thread wasn't meant to cause arguments. Ive already come to the conclusion that im staying away from it and all other products like this. There are far too many horror stories floating about for me to risk it and I cant afford it anyway. Just going to stick with regular oil changes. Got myself some of that Hein gericke stuff with the free Oil Filter so will be doing the swap soon.

Thanks for all your opinions and hopefully we can all get along.

[Bibio]

but Mr we like to argue

No we don't!

devils advocate

If I put my 'man bits' up your exhaust for 10 mins before you start your engine it will give an extra 3mpg! ..........
Must be true as you have just 'read it on the internet'!

Hmmm wondered what you lot were doing at leeming

Bike engines share the same oil between engine and gearbox, with a wet clutch inbetween the two. If you put a product like ZX1 or Slick50 in a bike you are effectively giving your clutch all the reasons it needs to slip and burn out. Bike clutches may run in oil, but they rely on friction to function correctly. If you add a friction reducing compound to the oil then you massively increase the chances of the clutch slipping.

I'm no engineer, but even I can see why this would be a bad thing to do.

A few years ago I worked for the company that imports Motorex Oils from Switzerland. Motorex were at the time the recommended oils for use in Aprilia bikes. We had a huge kerfuffle when it was discovered that using fully synth oil in an Aprilia RSV Mille would cause clutch problems - that little episode cost our company a few thousand sorting out buggered clutches. Apparently the fully synth oil was too good and the clutches were slipping as a result. From then on it was recommended that only semi-synths were used, and this carried over to when Aprilia changed recommended oils to Agip.

I'll stick to proper oils and not some old technology that some half-brained money grabber is foisting on the market with misleading claims backing it up. If this stuff was all it was cracked up to be, you'd find it on the oil shelves of every motor factors and petrol station with a Castrol, Texaco, Total or Shell label on the container. There's a reason why the big oil companies won't sell it, and it's not because they want your engine to blow up either.