Re: Oil Change
 

I had my sump washer go ever so slightly leaky after, um, maybe the 8th oil change. Nothing drastic but it was irritating, so I replaced it. Somewhere in the garage I have a wee bag of 5 washers that I cunningly bought to avoid this ever happening again, then cunningly lost.

Re: Oil Change
 

Little known fact: K+N bike oil filters are actually made by a company called Hiflofiltro - they're well enough made, but not actually K+N's own work.

Re: Oil Change
 

Just to back it up and show how a good or bad filter is made.

http://www.calsci.com/motorcycleinfo/FilterStudy.html

For the record, Vesrah make oil filters for the Suzuki, Honda, Kawasaki and Yamaha factories. They also supply virtually every brake pad used on a new Japanese bike regardless of the caliper manufacturer, as well as control cables and shedloads of other stuff like engine valves for Kawasakis. Vesrah as a company are absolutely huge, and the No.1 OE supplier to the Japanese bike manufacturing industry. My ex has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and is a development engineer working on new car engine designs, and she has taken a number of filters apart. She agrees with the findings in the article I've linked to.

When I do an oil and filter change on my bikes I'll only use OE filters or Vesrah, same goes for brake pads. I don't like the way EBC HH pads destroy discs in a way that OE or Vesrah JLs don't.

Re: Oil Change
 

Good morning all.

Digressing somewhat, I have to disagree with that rather sweeping statement.
Having used EBC HH since they came out, I have found that Disc life is not adversely effected by the use of HH pads when one takes into consideration the extra braking performance they give you.
Granted, it's difficult not to use some of the increased performance available, but obviously if one uses all of the increased performance one will suffer a consequent reduction in disc life.

Cheers.

Re: Oil Change
 

Mmm... But I'd say the braking performance you get from, say, Carbon Lorraine SBK3 is about the same, and they don't wear discs as fast in my own experience. Said experience is frankly too short to read much into but I've seen a few folks say the same.

Re: Oil Change
 

Tree bark is great for stopping motorbikes!
Doesn't wear the discs at all!
Bends the forks a bit though!
:)

Re: Oil Change
 

By the way...

....so true!