[ST] synthetic oil

["Lou Kallery" <lkallery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jack,

Never having seen this one before I found the image of the girlfriend 
falling off the bike hilarious -- akin to the first time I saw the shirt 
that said, "If you can read this, the bitch fell off" and its sequel, "I'm 
the bitch that fell off."

On a more serious note, though, when I had my 98 T595, I spoke with a man 
who built components for the T5, who went to England and visited Hinckley 
and Mobile Oil folk.  The TV's with the alleged ceramic bore were having 
some trouble with oil consumption because the rings weren't seating 
properly.  This guy told me to use standard petroleum based oil for about 
3,000 miles, then switch to the synthetic.  I did, and never had a problem. 
There might something to it since, speaking with a Triumph service manager 
yesterday, I brought up the issue of oil and he said that Triumph now 
suggests the use of semi-synthetic for the first 500 miles.  Too, BMW folk 
say ( a kind of consensus based upon polling 6 techs or so) that their 
R1100/1150 series boxers with the Nickels (sp?) bores should run petroleum 
based oils until about 17,000 miles then make the switch to synthetic.

Another conversation of note might be this:  the man of whom I spoke who 
went to England and there visited with a Mobile Oil  rep came back with the 
information that the Mobile 1 oil 15/50 was identical to the Triumph racing 
oil.  Again, I can't verify, but at the time the Mobile 1 at Wal-Mart was 
about $15 -- a considerable savings over the Triumph oil.  I used it and had 
no problems.

Lou 

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