Pedro

There was some words about being able to switching to 10w50 synthetic but that was supposed to be mainly because there was a shortage of the synthetic 5w40 on several markets due to supply chain issues.

Yes, but these watercooled ones don’t use oil. The amount of oil is acceptable, so I’ll just keep an eye on it.

Mine has never used a drop of oil until now, it has started to do so about 10k ago, and is using about 400/500 ml per 6 or 7000 km. We plan to take it apart at around 200.000km and rebuild it, unless it gets substantially worse.

147 or 149 km. It hasn’t been used much over the last few months. But that’ll change in September and November. I would expect your engine to last longer than the GS’s, though.

It’s only a baby, but nice that it’s fresh!

You’re right, I voted for Saul

I can’t decide who to vote for between those two sex symbols

You’re doing quite the going over the whole engine. Nice!

You think Marcel is a hack?

I hear you, here it’s like that two or three times per year.

If I need help with that, I’ll ask you which mechanic I should go to.

Long story short: Your sons friend asked you for help fixing a thread on an oil plug, being a master mechanic you sent him to a dealership.

Yes, it really would.

No religion. Come on guys, open a thread elsewhere on the forum if you want to talk gibberish.

Yahweh is a new one, I will use that. It'll either make sound educated or insane. However, @busabeast and @Buckster, no religion!

Washing the Scrambler, today, getting ready for something on the weekend with Sofia's club, I noticed a little bit of poor design. Look where the plug to put oil in the engine is:

I don’t check any of that in detail. I do care if anything that needs to be done regularly takes a lot of time, as with time it’ll eventually be easier to skip it and I hate that. Also I don’t think it’s that good if you have to disassemble a lot of plastics every other oil change, the GS is great for checking valves, 10 minutes of labour to get to them. Also the clutch, but everything else is a faff. Here there are a lot of Africa Twins and other parallel twins that never had valves checked as it’s such a long process to just get to them. I hate that.

Master mechanic at work right there!

How fast is it?

You shouldn't blame yourself. Surely the urges were dormant but already present in his mind for years.

The dude sitting behind him does look a little surprised