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Ducati Meccanica
Bikes: '01 Ducati 748R and '04 Mille RSVR
Posts: 2,665
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: Nr Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire
Mood: Awaiting the arrival of the sun and the disappearance of the rain
As an ex-Castrol employee, I tend to agree with Ducatimad.
Do you see Motogp and WSB engineers with Slick 50 and when was the last time you saw their name on a set of leathers as a major sponsor?
Modern day fully synth' oils will handle anything you can throw at them. For instance Castrol R4 is a derivitive from the development work and experience gained from thrashing Colin Edwards' SPW around the track.
By a decent quality oil and you can guarantee the development work has been put in as have the required addtivies to avoid breakdown (maintaining 'shear-stability etc) and corrosion and anti-frothing. Buy a spurious brand oil and you'll probably have greasy chips flying out your zorsts.
PJ,
I think you may just have been unlucky or perhaps the history isn't as full as you thought (not a dig). By that I mean did you know the previous owner? has it been bounced off the limiter all day etc in a previous life?
I've done nearly 16k miles on my 2001 748R and at it's recent 12k service one rocker was replaced cos the dealer found a tiny indentation. When he showed me, I could hardly see it....grain of sand sort of stuff.
I am still a believer that some you win and some you don't with Duke's. They aint all the same (unfortunately).
Press DUK..they have been known to help out if the bike has a FDSH and it's only just out of warranty or the mileage is low.
Good luck
[Edited on 6-6-2003 by Guido]
Guido
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