Oil filters

[GREAT_WHITE]

WELL....ON MINE I USED THE WIX OIL FILTER WITH ROYAL PURPLE MOTORCYCLE SPECIFIC OIL....... HOWEVER I WORK AT ABC AUTO PARTS 10+ YEARS AND HAVE USED WIX FILTERS SINCE THEN AND CHANGED EVERYTHING I OWN TO ROYAL PURPLE NUMEROUS YEARS AGO
JUST MY 2 CENTS


KRIS

[roboto65]

Ahhhh thats the reason for the caps you are surfing at work lololololololo just kidding I know on most Autostores they leave the cap lock on hehehehehehe Welcome to Moot. Oh and by the way I am a Royal Purple Junkie heheheh ask anyone that knows me hehehehehehe

[GREAT_WHITE]

Ahhhh thats the reason for the caps you are surfing at work lololololololo just kidding I know on most Autostores they leave the cap lock on hehehehehehe Welcome to Moot. Oh and by the way I am a Royal Purple Junkie heheheh ask anyone that knows me hehehehehehe

THANKS...GLAD TO FINALLY HAVE ONTHER BIKE

[roboto65]

I am like a Cr#$@ dealer I get the other members started using it and then they cannot stop hehehehehe have been using RP for about 5 years now but theres a reason well not the main reason I have always loved RP but to much for my blood heheheheh but since my employer puts it in all his Boats and barge engines well he lets us use it for FREE hehehehehe and I know the REP hehehehehe Heck some call me a rep and other things that I won't mention here lolololololololol Just kidding we have a great bunch of people here and this is the best group by FAR

[mefferz]

I bought an '01 Magna with 1,100~ miles on it about 6 weeks ago, sucker was barely broke in.  It would slip a lot when shifting from 1st to 2nd when I was really gunning it (8k+ rpm) and I thought maybe Magna's just had weak clutches. Then I remembered it was a wet clutch and the dude that owned the bike was a real caretaker even tho he barely rode it so it probably had 20W50 synthetic in it or similar. I've heard from a couple shops that it's bad to run synthetic too soon in a bike cuz it needs to break in a bit.  Anyway, I swapped out the oil with 10W40 Honda GN4 dino oil and it grabs a lot better. It no longer drops into neutral when I'm reefing on the throttle. I think I'll stick to the dino for awhile.

[MagnaMan]

It's also possible that he had the car oil in it with the energy conserving friction modifiers. I've heard this will cause clutch slippage.

I got my bike with 1102 miles on it and changed the oil using GN4, primarily because that's all I could get at the time. I started running synthetic in mine at about 4,000 miles.

[Greg Cothern]

I agree that synthetic oils can effect break in.  We see this with our RC engines, we run them with "Dino" oil until the rings seat good then switch over to synthetic oil.
I would think 5-7500 miles would easily be enough for things to have good wear in.  
Heck I think my truck was sent from the factory with Synthetic or at least a Synthetic blend LoL.