[RejectionNinja]

Good lesson. I changed the fork oil in my Honda Nighthawk and had a similar experience. Through being a clumsy idiot, I got fork oil on the front tire in a patch about 5" long. I wiped it up as best as I could but had other things to worry about (fork oil flowing all over the place).

I patched everything up and decided to give it a test ride.

I dropped into a low speed turn in an intersection and the front forks turned into a jackhammer. I had great traction except for the 5" of oil on the tire, where it was ice capades. I didn't come close to dropping the bike, but I was quite surprised and very nearly dropped something.

After realizing the problem, I carefully scrubbed the oil off after about 10 miles. Lesson learned. Oil and tires are not best friends. WHO KNEW!?

[The CyberPoet]

How exactly is the 5-7 drops thing supposed to work.

I was being semi facetious... but everyone missed it... opppsss... Woody's right -- people will buy into anything I say at times
5 to 7 drops added per mile...

The idea is that you want to have a layer of ten molecules or so thick on the mating contact surfaces at all time. A drop per link should do that, but if you could spread it out far enough, 5 to 7 drops spread across the whole chain would too. The problem is fling and migration, and so you need to keep adding a minimum of 5 to 7 drops per mile to compensate.

There is an inbetween out there -- somewhere between dripping wet and dry -- that will work.

Cheers,
=-= The CyberPoet

[brownwa]

I use kerosine in a windex bottle (no toothbrush) to clean and then 10w40 to oil - all while the chain is warm. It makes a mess, and causes oil to drip down my kick stand for the next 48 hours - but it definitely increases the life of the chain and sprocket.

Btw - funny story Tony