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New Bohemia, VA | I'm like, I have 3,500 miles on my bike since the last oil change, a month and a half ago. |
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Pittsburgh, PA | i just did my oil again as well 3800 miles in 11 days. (pa to wyoming & back) |
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| Oil changes come often when you're doing big miles and smiles. |
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New Bohemia, VA | I start getting the death rattle at around 2,500 and have to give it new blood. The engine sounds so good at the oil change. O'really had a sale on the lucas this time, through mid-august, saving $2 a quart. I'll have to stock up. |
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Ruskin, Fl | I was at 3000 before my trip from Florida to Kentucky. I'm glad I changed it befor I left. The trip was 2200 miles, it was 104 degrees going through Atlanta and I gave the bike a pretty hard workout on the dragon a few times. |
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| I'm sure likin' my 5,000 mile oil change every 2 months or less..... |
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New Bohemia, VA | I'm curious on the oil change intervals really having anything to do with the transmission. I wonder if they didn't change something else in the engine. I know mine, when using the blend oil will have about the life recommended and at the end of that life the engine is ticking and even have a knock of sorts. With the full-synthetic, that same range is extended to about the 3 to 4,000 mile mark. I have gone up to 6,000 between and oil change, but it had a considerably notable difference in sound when the oil was changed. So, with the 5,000 mile recommended oil change, is the engine still quiet at the end, or do other's engines tick as well? This is not imagination, and it is very noticable, the engine sound very quiet this morning after changing the oil last night. Buy the way, 122,000, the engine is not using ANY oil, no smoke, no leaky. |
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| varyder - 2012-08-03 9:10 AM
I'm curious on the oil change intervals really having anything to do with the transmission. I wonder if they didn't change something else in the engine. I know mine, when using the blend oil will have about the life recommended and at the end of that life the engine is ticking and even have a knock of sorts. With the full-synthetic, that same range is extended to about the 3 to 4,000 mile mark. I have gone up to 6,000 between and oil change, but it had a considerably notable difference in sound when the oil was changed. So, with the 5,000 mile recommended oil change, is the engine still quiet at the end, or do other's engines tick as well? This is not imagination, and it is very noticable, the engine sound very quiet this morning after changing the oil last night. Buy the way, 122,000, the engine is not using ANY oil, no smoke, no leaky.
Hardly any difference at all between my old 5k oil and after the new goes in. I've tried to discern a difference, and really can't.
I use Rotella T5 semi-syn.
26k miles on my almost year old Vision. |
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New Bohemia, VA | That makes me suspect, though I know oil changes for cars have been at 5,000+ for a while now. If I understood more I might go further, but a tick and a knock is a tick and a knock. The knock is getting a little more pronounced at the end of the oil life since around 80,000 miles, but it is not noticeable after an oil change. Just has my curiousity now. |
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Brighton, TN | You know, earlier you and I had a conversation about the clutch engaging right off the grip. Shifting was harder than it should be, neutral hard to get to, etc. Well, wouldn't you know it but I finally replaced the clutch master cylinder with a new to me master cylinder with a few miles on it. Lo and behold a lot of my troubles and issues went away. Shifts way easier like new, find neutral like butter, engages out where it is supposed to, etc. I just wonder if you put a new master on it, what the differences would be for you. I realize it won't rid of the tick, but it might be holding pressure or not in the clutch system. |
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| I change mine every 5k and the motor sounds the same before and after. |
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Anderson, IN (48mi NE of downtown Indianapolis) | The furthest I have gone between oil changes is 8k. I cannot tell any difference in the motor or shifting after an oil change regardless of mileage. |
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Central Maryland | kris1956 - 2012-08-03 10:56 AM
I change mine every 5k and the motor sounds the same before and after.
My 2011 is the same. I can't hear, feel or sense an audible or performance difference between the old oil and new oil @ 5,000 mile increments.
Turk posted as well with his 2011, he can't tell any difference either.
I think sum of youse guys are smoking weed.  |
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New Bohemia, VA | I don't have issue with the clutch or shifting. But the tick has been there since new at oil change time. |
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, MO | I've got 3200 on mine in the last 6 weeks. Gonna change mine this weekend... |
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Tucson, AZ | Got to agree with kris1956, engine sounds the same after 5000 miles with the same oil. Rotella semi syn. |
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New Bohemia, VA | This makes me wonder what Victory changed in the Freedom motor other than the transmission when they went to the 5,000 mile oil change? As I mentioned, my '08 Freedom motor has not changed from new when it comes to the tick that I get at oil change time. If I use the blend, it happens around the 2,000 to 2,500 mile mark, or should I say it is more noticeable. Using full syn, that range moves about a 1,000 more miles out, to around 3,000 to 4,000. It is at that point, either case, that when the tick is most noticeable, I wonder if I'm doing damage, so I change my oil and it goes away. I would like to hear the 2011 and beyond at oil change time and after, but if you all say so, there had to be a change or I've got a bummed motor from day one to 122,000 miles later. |
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