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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2245 Spring, Texas Gender:	Easy riddle 02/06/21 at 16:12:55 Why does 5k miles old oil on the Honda look so dirty when same age oil on the Savage still looks relatively clean?
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 6023 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Easy riddle Reply #1 - 02/06/21 at 18:47:54 ? I change mine every spring or 10k miles ... which ever comes first ! But , yea , it still looks nice when it drains out. Its been so long since I used conventional oil , I can't remember when it was ?
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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2245 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: Easy riddle Reply #2 - 02/08/21 at 15:06:18 I thought everybody would get this one. The answer is that because by the time I get to 5k miles I have added at least a quart of oil along the way. Yes, I do a lot of highway miles.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28996 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Easy riddle Reply #3 - 02/08/21 at 22:41:37 Honda is water cooled? water makes oil look crappy. maybe a leak?
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 6023 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Easy riddle Reply #4 - 02/09/21 at 04:35:46 Sorry I forgot it was a riddle ? In that case my first guess would be : "Different kind of oil" ? What kind you putting in ?
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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2245 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: Easy riddle Reply #5 - 02/09/21 at 10:39:43 No, no leak thank goodness. I really do not know what kind of oil was in it. The guy I bought it from did indicate synthetic, but that is all I remember. I put synthetic Rotella T6 in it. We'll see how that looks in 5k miles.
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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2245 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: Easy riddle Reply #6 - 02/09/21 at 10:41:22 Now you guys are making me wonder. Am I the only one that has to add oil to the S40 every few hundred miles (high speed miles)?
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Re: Easy riddle
Reply #7 - 02/09/21 at 14:17:28

springman wrote on 02/09/21 at 10:41:22:

Now you guys are making me wonder. Am I the only one that has to add oil to the S40 every few hundred miles (high speed miles)?

I can ride between oil changes and never add any oil - however my riding is completely different than yours. My bike spends most of the time between 2,500 - 3,500 on back roads (with my gearing 3,500 rpm is 60 mph). The Arkansas riding we did is very similar to how I ride in KY - the hills here are not as big and the curves are closer together.

I think the oil in the Honda is getting frightened by the loud mufflers and causing it to decompose from the mental stress!
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Reply #8 - 02/09/21 at 15:56:09

I think the oil in the Honda is getting frightened by the loud mufflers and causing it to decompose from the mental stress!

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I don't know if its "High-Speed" or not but I'm not shy about running the high side of 70 on the speedometer. There is a error of about (10 % +) , so an indicated 70 is really near 80 mph on the GPS. I'd guess about 5k RPM is the most mine ever see's .
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I never have to add oil.
T-6 plus about 1/2 can of reg. STP. to the upper full mark on the side stand. No , the clutch don't slip.

It only had about 3k miles on it when I bought it , and it was still idled at 1200 rpm-ish . I don't think its ever been mis-treated or idled down too low. Now its up to the 50,000 mile neighborhood and doing fine.

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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2245 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: Easy riddle Reply #9 - 02/09/21 at 21:22:15 Mental stress huh? Never occurred to me. I must admit that on the S40 I do between 70 and 75mph on the highway about 32 miles to work and 32 miles back. And I have to wipe the oil off of the engine after a couple or so rides. And so I just add a bit more oil every now and then.
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Mavigogun Serious Thumper Offline We roll farther together Posts: 775 Progressive Texas	Re: Easy riddle Reply #10 - 02/10/21 at 07:12:31 My speedo reads progressively HIGH the faster the bike is pushed. Anything sustained above actual 70 mph drinks oil. If I push the bike to hold an indicated 90 or above, I had better be ready to add oil when next I add gas- two tanks worth of charging hard risks running dry by the time the third is emptied.
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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2245 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: Easy riddle Reply #11 - 02/10/21 at 11:05:41 I believe mine is not quite as bad as yours Mavi, but yeah, high speed, more oil.
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10802 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Easy riddle Reply #12 - 02/10/21 at 11:29:41 Mine spits oil too. I don't mind spinning up the rpm a bit
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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2245 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: Easy riddle Reply #13 - 02/10/21 at 14:56:51
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Easy riddle Reply #14 - 02/14/21 at 11:28:33 Fresh oil disappears slower than oil with a thousand miles on it. I'm not sure if that holds true for the synthetic.
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