Do You Know How Often to Change Motorcycle Oil?

Motorcycles have always been a transportation tool that people like, especially for young man. It is a cheap and convenient trip tool, and is faster than cars and bicycles. If you maintain your new style motorcycle regularly, it not only looks new, but also has good performance when it is running. For example, when motorcycles are used for a certain time, their oil must be changed. It can extend motorcycles life span. Then, how often is the best time to change motorcycle oil? Let us to find the answer together.

Motorcycles introduction

We know that the motorcycle is a two-wheeled or three-wheeled vehicle driven by a gasoline engine and steered by the front wheels by motorcycle handle bar. It is light, flexible and fast. And t is widely used in patrols, daily riding and cargo transportation. Sometimes it is also used as a sports’ equipment. From a general perspective, motorcycles are divided into street cars, road racing motorcycles, cross-country motorcycles, cruisers, station wagons and so on.

Basic specifications of motorcycles

For common motorcycles, during the running-in period of a new car, the oil is usually changed for the first time between 500-1000 kilometers, and then it is enough to change the oil every 2000 kilometers. When changing the oil, the brand of the oil is not very important, as long as it is genuine and not counterfeit or inferior, and the oil quality with the same price is similar. Generally speaking, people change oil according to the kilometer distance, which is not completely correct. The best time of oil change is as season changing, which is the most appropriate replacement. Usually it can be changed 4 times a year, and there is no need to calculate how many kilometers. When changing seasons, you can change different grades of oil and clean the motorcycle air filter according to different temperatures of season to make the engine work better.

How often to change the motorcycle oil?

1. When the viscosity of motorcycle engine oil changes greatly at high temperature and the deviation of the kinematic viscosity value at 100°C exceeds 20%, it must be replaced.

2. The detergency and dispersion performance of the engine oil is reduced, and it cannot dissolve and disperse the carbon deposits generated during the work of the engine, it must be replaced.

3. The engine oil is acidic and contains a lot of acidic oxides, which is easy to corrode the parts. At this time, you had better to change motorcycle oil in time.

4. The engine oil contains metal particles since the filtering effect of the bike oil filter structure is not thorough enough, which intensifies the wear of the parts in operation. So, you should change oil as soon as possible.

5. The flash point of engine oil is reduced, which will affect safety. This is because frequent cold starts may cause gasoline to enter the motorcycle crank case through the motorbike cylinder ring gap. The national standard stipulates that the flash point value of gasoline engine oil shall not be lower than 210°C. At this time, you need to change bike oil.