Brrrr. Cold start issue

[Shifu]

I have used car oil for yonks and my last bike at 100,000km had perfect cam lobes and didn't blow an ounce of smoke or use hardly any oil between changes. I just wait until the oil is on special at places like autobarn and stock up on 5 or 6 packs. The guy that runs suspention improvements here in briso (used to be head mech at honda in moss st) told me he puts any old oil in his. Even deisel oil. That was enough to break my fetish for $60 oil.

Of course if I regularly redlined my bike I might need the extra protection the botique stuff purportedly gives.

There is nothing wrong with using diesel oil in motorbikes. Shell Rotella for example performes brilliantly in modrn motorbike engines. Unfortunately it is not available in Australia. However I would be carefull with using car oils as a lot of them contain friction modifiers and will f$#ck up your clutch plates fibers.