is this the right oil for our birds

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joecrx · #1 Post by **joecrx** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:04 pm

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/APRILIA-FALCO ... 415b594c8a

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/APRILIA-FALCO ... 3f0b73de12

Keith75 · #2 Post by **Keith75** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:33 pm

15w/50 semi is what Aprilia recommend, I'll stick with that when mine needs changed.

joecrx · #3 Post by **joecrx** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:38 pm

cheeres thats what i thought

Aladinsaneuk · #4 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » 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

D-Rider · #5 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:42 pm

Aladinsaneuk wrote: an early falco might slip on fully synth

Just a couple of small technical corrections

* 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

joecrx · #6 Post by **joecrx** » 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

Aladinsaneuk · #7 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » 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....

D-Rider · #8 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:35 pm

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....

Quite odd? I thought yours was one of those that did suffer clutch slip.

.... and please have the decency not to mention football - it's all too pianfull

Aladinsaneuk · #9 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » 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....

D-Rider · #10 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:30 am

Aladinsaneuk wrote:at least you lot finish a game with 11 players on the pitch - we have a new 10 man handicap system....

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 · #11 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » 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.....

HowardQ · #12 Post by **HowardQ** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:22 pm

Looked to me like he was intent on kicking the ball(s).

HowardQ · #13 Post by **HowardQ** » 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.

Aladinsaneuk · #14 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » 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....