In your message dated: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:47:47 EDT,
your pithy ruminations on <Oil weight> were:
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=> What weight oil do you all use? I live in the DC area, where temperatures
=> generally range from the low teens to the upper 90s. I generally don't ride
=> when the temps are below 35. The next oil is going to be synthetic (let's
=> not get into that argument for now), and it's going to be AMSOIL.
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=> In my Concours, I ran 10w40 AMSOIL 100% Synthetic and had no problems (maybe
=> that's why I never had any cam chain tensioner problems). My inclination is
=> to run the same thing in the GTS.
I run Mobil 1 15w50. If I'm doing a late fall or mid-winter oil change, I'll go
to 10w40 in some synthetic, but it really doesn't get cold enough here to make
cold starting viscosity a problem for me. Of course, I don't take the bike out
much if it's in the 20s. :)
Frankly, given the traffic and weather patterns here, I'm more concerned about
heat damaging the oil when you get caught in a traffic jam for 45 minutes
during a 75+ degree day in December.
Mark "living in Virginia now" Bergman
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=> Feedback please.
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=> Regards,
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=> Henry S. Winokur
=> 94 GTS1000, AMA, MRF, MD/MSF Certified Instructor
=> West Bethesda, MD
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