Wayne,
You are more interested in appearing as you have some oil knowledge, and using only bogus "oil reports" for your back-up, than you are in discovering the truth.
So many perpetuate this myth that it's getting sickening.
And to come here where loads of folks DO have some comprehensive data concerning these oils, and spout off some rediculous legend, is even more amazing. I also notice that in every thread you post, Wayne, you are touting Maxima oil.
Are you simply embarrased to be paying such high dollar for a simply adequate fluid?
I always hear the typical "I read reports on this, and have heard from many people about it" but, you never see the reports, and can't find any sort of information that would back up clutch slippage being related to an oil's add pack.
I have a buddy who runs the parts side of a major bike dealer in this area.
We got into the oil discussion at his dealership the other day. He too was passing on track myth and dealerspeak about Honda oils.
"Can't use anything with moly in it, boy it will hose your clutch fast!"
The more we discussed the issue, the less and less convinced he was that what he was telling me was correct. He finally admitted that he had never actually seen a clutch failure from oil use, but he had read reports....(sound familiar?)
Also, he finally stated that he had been using the MB rated fluid in his XR650 for about 6 months before he realized that he was using the moly rich MB fluid. The bike was dual sport ridden and he explained that he never saw one bit of any change in clutch action during the use of the MB rated HP4.
He said that once he figured out his mistake, he reasoned that it must have been his aftermarket plates and springs that saved him.
He's now not so convinced that the oil would be a problem at all. And I'm fairly sure he is now understanding the moly scare. Of course that won't last long...because I'm sure his dealership is still full of those who perpetuate track myth and legend, and they will set him back on the path of lunacy.
This moly and EC scare is a bucnch of hogwash from any and all evidence I can collect, and I challange any of the myth perpetuators to come up with some hard data. Short of that, I wish they would cap the spewing pipeline of crud.
