tubeless tire update and tubeliss insert system install

[Norm Keller]

I've got John's house on Google Satellite view and watching for garbage bags....anyone know trash day for his neighborhood? It would be really annoying.... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[mark ward]

HMMMM?

Many say they use none, some say all of a sudden,.....

Could it be that, when on a HILLY, Mountain etc. trip and we use "Engine Breaking" (lower gears to slow us down & use less breaking)  it uses more oil by sucking it up? OR  

[achesley43@ymail.com]

I do know that when roaming about mountainous terrain, on about any bike I've own, it does use a bit more oil from long periods of compression braking. Especially my '00 KLR. Or, extended 70 plus mph runs. KLR again. The '92 did the same thing. 

[Norm Keller]

Paul Westman has done some very interesting work in reducing oil flow to the crankshaft which has reduced the oil consumption, increased fuel mileage and shown excellent oil results in oil analysis. The hypothesis seems so well supported by evidence that it may be more correctly termed as a theory.

 

I've seen some oil rings with chipped/peeling surface which might be the issue with some bikes. The 30+ used pistons I've inspected had several examples.

 

Another interesting case was a Gen1 which was a very bad oil burner. I pulled the top end and had the valves & seats ground because they were so pitted from the deposits. I deglaze honed the cylinder and left the rings because the end gaps were still OK. The oil consumption is back to typical, Just, FWIW.