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Old April 16th, 2015, 09:00 PM   #21
liberpolly
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Motorcycle(s): 1999 Triumph Legend "Arwen", 2006 Ninja 650 "Matsuo Hotaru". 2010 Ninja 250 "Firefly" - sold.

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Originally Posted by alex.s View Post
increase of 1.3%......... compared to WHAT? the shittiest oil on the market. that's what they don't tell you. running ANY reasonable oil will give you the same "performance increase" over terrible crappy oil.
It sounds like it's result on Formula 1 cars, they don't put crappy oil in those OTOH, results in Formula 1 car are not very likely to be applicable to a $3000 bike. In high performance engines, all other power gains are already taken, so the high performance oil might have measurable effect. On our bike, there is so much of uncorked potential gains, that unless you spend many, many thousand dollars on it, high performance oil will not start moving the needle.
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