
14 Feb 2016
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Norway
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Originally Posted by twowheels03
As a side note....I had an R1 from new. Ran it in exactly as I should (painfull few days of self restraint) and by ten thousand miles it was burning a litre in a thousand miles. Yamaha technical said it was acceptable consumption for that engine.
I had the motor rebuilt and tuned by Bob Farnham (famed for building endurance race motors for Yam) who told me Fully synth is no good for that motor....use a good semi. After that no oil top up between services, sold the bike with 27k on it. I also had a Thunderace that used oil......but Honda's and Ducati's that didn't. Maybe it's just a Yam thing !!!!!
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Early Thunderace had a problem with oil consumption, i have latest model and its no issue. I use semisynth as recomended for this engine, R1 had problems with oil blow out from crankcase breather in high rpm.
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