[Kham]

are there any negative effect to switch from synthetic to regular oil?

[twrayinma]

Beware of synthetic oil, it can do terrible things to you and your
beloved motorcycle. It will not only leak out of your engine faster
than you can put it in, but it will also cause your oil filter to
clog and implode, dumping debris and dirt into your lubrication
system. It also will make every part of your bike permanently
slippery because of its linear molecular chain dispersion action.
Then it will leak onto your kickstand causing it to retract
automatically, dropping your bike on the ground! But that's not all...

Synthetic oil will round off your gears and spin your bearings. It
will also splatter onto your seat causing your girlfriend to fall off
in the apex of a turn and she'll never ride with you again. Synthetic
oil coats your sight window and your timing window with a whitish
pro-emulsification additive that is both non-removable and highly
corrosive. Synthetic oil will completely leak onto the ground overnight
and your dog will drink it and die.

Synthetic oil will wear out your tires and make your battery leak. It
will give you the desperate need to urinate after you put your full
leathers on and then jam your zippers shut. It will contaminate your
gasoline causing your bike to stall on railroad tracks and accelerate
uncontrollably near police cars. It will make it rain during rallies
and on weekends. It will lubricate your timing belts causing them to
jump teeth and break your valves to bits. Synthetic oil chemically
weakens desmodromic valves and causes the clearances to change every
six miles. Then it melts the black soles of your riding boots right
before you walk across your new carpeting.

While riding past groups of attractive women it will cause both of
your handlebar grips to slip off at the same time so you smash your
windscreen with the bridge of your nose. It also causes your swingarm
to crack, your studs to break, and your rotors to warp, and then it
voids your warranty by changing your odometer reading to 55,555. It
also dries out your wetclutch and wets your dryclutch. It makes your
clutch slave cylinder seal fail in the heaviest traffic on the hottest
day of the year while putting an angry wasp in your helmet for good
measure.

Synthetic oil hides your 13mm socket and puts superglue on your
earplugs. Synthetic oil will scratch your faceshield and make your
gloves shrink two sizes night before trackday. Synthetic oil stole
your neutral and sold it to the Chinese for $1.25. Synthetic oil
will make you grow a tail.

although we all know that it was josh who stole your 13mm socket.... and we know where he put it.

[Kham]

you've been ing around i see.

i thought you were electrical engineer.

[beet]

Originally posted by Kham
are there any negative effect to switch from synthetic to regular oil?

synthetic oil caused my crash put some in the forks

[PinHead]

Dont switch from syn. to reg. oil. The syn. oil is much better.

[RandyO]

yes I do believe you have to get a new oil switch when you change from petroleum oil to synthetic oil. synthetic oil will make the sending unit work erraticly unless you have a special sending unit designed for synthetic

[Kham]

maybe im asking it wrong. remember the CBR? i used synth last oil change and i wanna go back to regular oil b/c dont wanna pay $8/qt any more.

for some reason i was lad to believe you should not go back once you go synth.

[Polonius]

I don't know what the correct answer is, however, twrayinma's response has caused me to piss my pants and dribble into my motorcycle ail intake while I was changing it.

Now! What the fuck do I change to?




That has got to be a classic!


Oil..........................................


fukin smartasss

And Larger is my favorite

[Honclfibr]

Originally posted by Polonius
dribble into my motorcycle ail intake while I was changing it.

Careful that you refill that ale intake with a premium india pale ale, made from the finest hops and top fermenting yeast. English pale ale is acceptable but not recommended, as you may find your bike running on only three cylinders. Be warned, disaster is assured if you were to use some off-brand of pilsner, porter, or god forbid, lager...

[bemused]

Kham-

there are, pretty much, as many opinions about oil in motorcycles as there are brands of oil... you may find it hard to get a straight answer here. peeps will climb on a soapbox about car oil vs. bike-specific oil, synthetic vs. dino vs. semi-synth, etc.

(hell, it's often hard to get a straight answer here, even if the question is "do you like boobs?" )

as a general rule, the newest synthetics seem to do a better job... for longer... at what you need oil for: lubrication, foreign particle suspension, and cooling. it usually isn't recommended for break-in on a new bike... but after that's done, you might want to consider that you can usually go lots longer between changes with the synth-- which brings down the cost-per-mile, even tho synth costs more per bottle.

there's an article in one of the rags (Sport Rider? Motorcyclist?) this month that covers oil... "Oils Well That Ends Well" or some clever shit like that. while they wimp out and don't give any specific recommendations @ the end, they do post charts of the results of actual tests they had done.

might be worth a look...

[Kham]

thanks for the reminder.

i should know better not to ask a dumb question about oil.