Engine failure...

Thanks for your comments guys.

I'll put it down to being unlucky then. But some thoughts crossed my mind.

Surely if there was insufficient engine oil, wouldn't the lights have at least come on? MY SV had fairings, and the engine oil level is particularly hard to read. Or was rather.

Getting a second engine: I've never bought motorcycle parts from Ebay. How do I know I wouldn't be buying something like my blown-up enging?

Ash - that's true. The tyres also were due to be replaced with Michelin Pilots this week. I'd bled 6,000 miles on them and saved the edges.

What a way to end on 30K miles. Would I be better off just breaking it up and buying a new one? I didn't get on with the non-curvy one. It seemed to stick into me at the wrong places.

Thanks,

Rob

[Biker Biggles]

Just for every one elses benefit----Never use the oil light to tell you when to put oil in.That is not how it works as when that light comes on while you are riding you have already destroyed your engine as there is no oil pressure.You simply must check the level in the sight glass at regular intervals.

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Just for every one elses benefit----Never use the oil light to tell you when to put oil in.That is not how it works as when that light comes on while you are riding you have already destroyed your engine as there is no oil pressure.You simply must check the level in the sight glass at regular intervals.

yep,
the mass will verify this

[Sid Squid]

Originally Posted by I Previously

...it's very much a worst case warning, the oil pressure switch operates at a very low value - when the oil is hot and therefore thin and the bike's idling there is likely no more than 10-15psi oil pressure, and the switch must operate comfortably below that figure, or false warnings will be given - all the oil light does is indicate that there either is or isn't any sort of pressure at all. When you're riding the oil light can be off when the pressure is way less than adequate.

Don't rely on it. Check the oil level.

Originally Posted by I Also

...the oil light is there, as pointed out, simply to tell you that there is any sort of pressure at all, not that it's sufficent, and then there's the other indicator; the oil window. Together these two indicators are the very same as fitted to, and work in the same way, as the enormous majority of road vehicles, just about every car or bike you can buy has the exact same indicators of oil pressure and level, (cars have dipsticks, but it's the same idea: you look),