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Re: [St] Oil Filter Search - Happy Ending (Long Post)



Ride report coming?  

Jeremy Witt
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-----Original Message-----
From: st-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:st-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Dicks
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 10:18 AM
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [St] Oil Filter Search - Happy Ending (Long Post)

Brian - just got back from a tour of Nova Scotia....  Fantastic place to
ride.  Wish I'd known about the races as we might well have gone to
that.

-----Original Message-----
From: st-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:st-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Pitman
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 9:12 AM
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [St] Oil Filter Search - Happy Ending (Long Post)


Hi Jim & John - and everyone else who added to the oil filter story.

I just returned from a 3,000 km round trip to the Martimes to see my
family.

Of course, the "real reason" was to do a Triumph Road Trip and to see
the
Atlantic round of the Cdn SBK series :-)

The racing was superb!  The skies were crytal clear at Shubenacadie (a
wonderful little racetrack 45 mins N of Halifax that is one of the
Maritimes
best kept secrets), a light breeze was in the air and the races clicked
off
all afternoon with only one red flag to temporarily slow proceedings.
The
two feature races were hotly contested by two old Pros that are both AMA
veterans, Steve Crevier (who won the AMA 600 Supersport title many moons
ago) and Jordan Szokes (he was briefly running in the 750 series with
the
Corona team when he ran into passport/green card problems (?) and was
subsequently banned at the border). Pascale Picotte, another ex-AMAer
who
normally runs at the front of CMA events was in the race but still
hurting
from injures suffered earlier in the season and was not a factor.  Szoke
lead most of the 600 race, was passed by Crevier with a lap to go, then
repassed for the lead in the last series of corners for the win.

The scenario was very similar in the Superbike race with two other young
guns mixing it up to make a four bike freight train all race long.
Crevier
held on to the lead in this one and took the checkered flag.  I had
spoken
to him earlier in the day as he was limping around the pit area. The
previous day, he had taken a evil highside on the back straight (which
is
anything but straight which, along with the elevation changes is aptly
nicknamed "The Rollercoaster") and was in some obvious pain.  It was
good to
see one of the old timers show some grit in showing the young'uns the
fast
way around the track!!!

As for the road trip, the short version is that I left Ottawa last
Friday
and rode with a GTSer friend of mine from Kingston, ON (who was riding
his
FJR this trip). He likes to ride almost as fast as I do and knows the
roads
even better so he lead most of the way through the back woods of VT, NH
&
ME.  We switched bikes a couple of times and while I am really enjoying
my
ST, I have to say that the FJR motor has to one of the sweetest mills I
have
ever experienced in a sport-tourer. The "ride report" will come later
when I
have some more time.

Anyway, the topic is oil filters so I just hadda let ya'll know that I
actually located a $2.67 SuperTech on my return ride in the WalMart on
route
# 2 in Newport.  I went in and, shades of Ottawa, I saw row upon row of
Fram
product.  Thinking that the $3 oil filter was only a mythical creation
of
some listers imagination, I scanned the bottom shelves.  Lo & behold -
Supertech cartons!  I bought every Sprint ST filter on the shelf (which
was
only four) so I did the same thing at the Skohegan Walmart a few minutes
later!  My apologies to anyone that went in to either of those stores
late
Sat afternoon looking for an ST7317...).

Here's the even better ending to this feel good story.  As I am standing
in
the parking lot in Newport trying to figure out where I am going to
stuff
the filters into my luggage, another '06 Caspian Blue Triumph Sprint ST
pulls alongside followed by a white 1200 Sportster!  It is Bob and
Marilyn,
respectively, fellow Canadians no less (!) who are on their way home to
Newfoundland.  Now here is a guy who really wanted to ride a Triumph
since
there are NO dealers in Nfld - an island province.  He bought his bike
in
Nova Scotia and was stopping in on the way back to have his first major
service done.  We had a pleasant 20 min chat to discuss pros and cons.
His
major mod was installing small video cameras front and rear to record
his
journey up and down Mt Washington and other twisty sections of his
travels!
Unfortunately, I had to press on as I was in the middle of a 15 hour
ride
(Saint John, NB to Ottawa,ON).  I gave him my email address so hopefully
I
will hear more about their adventures - and convince him to join our
list.

Cheers,

Brian
GWN
'06 ST


----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Crate <jimcfl@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 9:54:38 AM
Subject: Re: [St] Oil Filter Search


> Greetings from the Great White North.  My logistical adventure
> continues this week with a search for a better oil filter for my  
> new garage mate.  Scouting around Ottawa, I have checked into about  
> a dozen different motorcycle dealers, car parts suppliers and  
> department stores.  I even went to the Walmart in my neighbourhood  
> with great expectations of putting my paws on a carton of $3  
> (dreaming in Cdn dollars; 5% exchange, another 45% markup to print  
> the packaging in two languages...) Supertech oil filters.  To my  
> immense dismay, the complete shelf of oil filters, left to right,  
> top to bottom was comprised of Fram filters as was almost every  
> other store I visited. The only exception was my local CanadianTire  
> store which, instead of shitty $10 Fram filters, had equally poorly  
> rated K&N filters at $20 ea.

I don't believe the Fram filters are as bad as everyone makes them  
out to be.  I ran them on my cars for years with no problems.  On my  
Nissan 240SX, in fact, it was the highly regarded Nissan OEM oil  
filters which led to the demise of that motor (filter seal burst at  
high rpm, with all the oil being pumped all over the outside of the  
engine immediately), while the Fram filters worked perfectly for many  
years and thousands of track miles.  A friend of mine with another  
240SX had the same bad experience with an OEM Nissan oil filter, but  
he was smart enough to quit using them for good after the first time.

You should be able to find the Purolator filter.  The Purolator  
PureOne filter is very solid and looks like it is constructed very  
well, and is rated highly by the cutaway tests.  It is about $5 at  
pretty much any auto parts store here in the US, you might have  
better luck finding it than the Supertech which I believe is only  
carried by Walmart.

There is a comprehensive oil filter cross-reference here:

http://www.calsci.com/motorcycleinfo/FilterXRef.html

and the articles on that site about oil are very well researched and  
worth reading as well.

Jim

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