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Old May 25, 2008 | 08:01 AM
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I was getting 120 miles before reserve. These days I'm getting 90-100. I do keep my rpms over 6000.
 
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Old May 25, 2008 | 08:59 AM
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how many miles on it? air filter might be dirty.
 
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Old May 25, 2008 | 09:30 AM
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WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME U CHANGED UR OIL ?
 
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Old May 26, 2008 | 06:44 AM
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The bike has under 4000 miles on it. it had it's 600 mile oil change already. I'm waiting till 4000 to change the oil.
 
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Old May 26, 2008 | 07:14 AM
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you should have changed it again at 2000mi
 
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Old May 26, 2008 | 08:27 AM
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I thought it was every 3000 miles..am I wrong?
 
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Old May 26, 2008 | 08:35 AM
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Whats the usual Oil change schedule?
 
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Old May 26, 2008 | 08:56 AM
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Per the owners manual oil isn't due to be changed till 8000 miles and the air filter not untill 12000.
The only variance I see needed is if you don't ride your bike, oil does start to become aidic and can eat away at the engine.
If you don't ride it enough to get the oil dirty sell it. That's just me. I don't do maintence for the sake of doing maintence.
I own a '98 Honda Accord with 200k on it. The oil gets changed every 7500 miles just like they recommend. I trust the engineers at Honda and their recommendations.

What year is your bike? When I bought an 01' last year it had 2100 miles on it. After about a month I lost mpg, took it on a long good ride, got the engine nice and cleaned out.
Now I'm getting 160 miles before the reserve comes on. Your throttle control and use probibly plays the biggest role. I generally keep my rpms under 6k unless I'm on the hiway.
 
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Old May 26, 2008 | 08:57 AM
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i change every 3.5k. it does not matter much anyway.
but take a look into your fuel and air filters.
 
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Old May 26, 2008 | 09:06 AM
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??? I pulled this from the service manual.

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