Well, that is a very bold statement and I hope other Vstrom owners IGNORE it, because for a start unless you know what you are doing with breaking in a Japanese motor, you really need to pay attention to what the owners manual says.

As for the statement about 1000 miles as the max for 'regular' oil well I would like to know what you call regular because I bet it is not the same as what I call regular. Now, if you had mentioned MINERAL oil, without additives, then we need to talk about brand names etc.

Oil is a very special subject and unless you know motors, you should not just use any old oil.

I can state for a fact I BROKE in my Vstrom on MINERAL oil and did not change to semi synthetic until I reached 20,000km with no issues at all. And, the reason I changed to semi synth was because I could not find any straight mineral oil at that time.


Oh, to the OP, as mentioned above you need to keep the bike level and have warm oil before checking(which is a real pain by yourself). If you change the oil yourself, always change the filter(why put new oil into a dirty filter) and put in 2.7 liters, which is about 2.7 quarts. If you do fast hard hot running it will use some oil, but not much. At the end of the oils life(around 4-5000 miles) it does seem to burn it a tad quicker I have found

Merry festive season
TravellingStrom

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