Scottoiler pros & cons

[BanannaMan]

Thanks all!

I think I'll go with the scottoiler then as it seems well proven and has many fans among it's users.

Not to worry about skipping any maintenance here....
My chain will still be cleaned before every ride.

My main reason for fitting would be that I take several 3-day weekend rides a year, ranging from 650 to 1000 miles.
Would be nice make the entire journey without doing any chain mantenance. (Providing it didn't get too dirty)
It certainly would not go any longer without being cleaned.


She's still a clean machine, with 22K+ miles.

nice clean curvey, credit to ya mate.

bumping thread, just found this

http://www.chainoiler.org.uk/

I hate my scottoiler, i spent forever trying to get it to work and it keeps breaking. I'll be stripping it off and selling it on, trying one of these instead and for £12 i can't go wrong really.

[yorkie_chris]

That will work very well untill you forget to turn tap off and it pours all oil onto floor

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

That will work very well untill you forget to turn tap off and it pours all oil onto floor

So i pour oil onto the floor that cost me nothing. Unless i park it in my girlfriends garage and i then get abuse, although he did knock my SV over. He's an ex-biker tho so will understand and probably want one once he's allowed a bike again.

[fizzwheel]

What keeps breaking oin your Scotoiler, I've always found them very reliable ( I'm on my fourth bike with one on )

the only trouble we've had is the one on Liz's SV kept loosing its prime, which I fixed by fitting a new breather pipe to it.

[northwind]

Originally Posted by thefallenangel

I hate my scottoiler, i spent forever trying to get it to work and it keeps breaking. I'll be stripping it off and selling it on, trying one of these instead and for £12 i can't go wrong really.

TBH that looks like it's more or less a scottoiler without the vacuum actuation? What sort of problems did you have with the scottoiler?

Originally Posted by thefallenangel

bumping thread, just found this

http://www.chainoiler.org.uk/

I hate my scottoiler, i spent forever trying to get it to work and it keeps breaking. I'll be stripping it off and selling it on, trying one of these instead and for £12 i can't go wrong really.

99% of the time it's operator error. The other 1% of the time it's fitting errors.

Originally Posted by thefallenangel

Unless i park it in my girlfriends garage

Originally Posted by thefallenangel

he did knock my SV over. He's an ex-biker

Girlfriend? = he?

Originally Posted by hob

Girlfriend? = he?

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