is this the right oil for our birds
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:04 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:33 pm
15w/50 semi is what Aprilia recommend, I'll stick with that when mine needs changed.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:38 pm
cheeres thats what i thought
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:51 pm
a search could be helpful
BUT
a late - 2002+ falco will - it seems - run fine on full synth
an early falco will slip on anything but semi synth
aprilia issued an advisory in 1999 that bikes that had an issue with clutch slip could use 10/40 semi synth
I use 10/40 semi synth
BUT
i di use a quality bike specific oil
BUT
a late - 2002+ falco will - it seems - run fine on full synth
an early falco will slip on anything but semi synth
aprilia issued an advisory in 1999 that bikes that had an issue with clutch slip could use 10/40 semi synth
I use 10/40 semi synth
BUT
i di use a quality bike specific oil
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:42 pm
Just a couple of small technical correctionsAladinsaneuk wrote: an early falco might slip on fully synth
* not all early bikesl slip on fully synth
* they almost certainly won't slip on mineral oil (though I doubt that mineral oils are top of anyone's list as service times
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:02 pm
i did do a search d-rider , but it opened a can of oily worms , including this one 
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:11 pm
ok
my falco is an early one and when i used full synth oil it slipped more than a bottle of grecian 2000 falling towards the trousers of a liverpool supporting coventry city season ticket holder living in the midlands....
my falco is an early one and when i used full synth oil it slipped more than a bottle of grecian 2000 falling towards the trousers of a liverpool supporting coventry city season ticket holder living in the midlands....
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:35 pm
Quite odd? I thought yours was one of those that did suffer clutch slip.Aladinsaneuk wrote:ok
my falco is an early one and when i used full synth oil it slipped more than a bottle of grecian 2000 falling towards the trousers of a liverpool supporting coventry city season ticket holder living in the midlands....
.... and please have the decency not to mention football - it's all too pianfull
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:49 am
at least you lot finish a game with 11 players on the pitch - we have a new 10 man handicap system....
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:30 am
We may have 11 on the pitch but I think a lot of them are wandering around looking for their seats amongst the rest of the supporters.Aladinsaneuk wrote:at least you lot finish a game with 11 players on the pitch - we have a new 10 man handicap system....
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:24 am
ahhh - our opponents team often ends up in those seats.... Pugh looks a nice young man but my god he can be a right thug... and as for Brown - its the ball you are meant to put into row z.....
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:22 pm
Looked to me like he was intent on kicking the ball(s). 
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:28 pm
Silly thing about oil is that Aprilia do not admit to any changes on the bikes that could account for this!
Mine is a 2001, (i.e. after the 2000.5 model changes which were the only major changes ever made supposedly, other than the late changes from Showa forks when money got tight at Ricoh around 2004 ish.).
Mine slips badly on fully synth, but is fine on semi.
Mine is a 2001, (i.e. after the 2000.5 model changes which were the only major changes ever made supposedly, other than the late changes from Showa forks when money got tight at Ricoh around 2004 ish.).
Mine slips badly on fully synth, but is fine on semi.
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:48 pm
actually Howard, your bike is not a 2001 - that was when it was registered.... it would have been made in 1999 or 2000 - the plate under the saddle will tell you it exactly....