While trawling this site recently, I read the one about the guy who was cleaning his chain... and ended up with no fingertips
I admit that occasionally I had held a rag against a moving chain but those pictures really freaked me into finding another way of cleaning my chain.
Seeing a bike at work with a super clean looking chain and mine covered in black gungy mess I noticed that he had an oiler installed. I had seen comments about traditional ScottOilers being difficult to control the output on, and also I didn't really want to hook into my induction system. The new E-system didn't have either of those problems.
No dealers in NZ had these units, so I ordered one from a crowd called Pashnit in California who also do motorbike tours. They were superb and had it here in 3 days. Unfortunately the controller didn't work. This could have been a big drama posting stuff back and forth, but ScottOiler stepped in and replaced my unit in 4 days from the UK with a Royal Mail strike. I was very impressed with their helpfulness and rapid response.
The E-System attaches to the battery and the display unit sits nicely below my speedo. The oil reservoir fits under my seat, and the nozzle bolts onto the rear spool with a hoseclip and cable ties looking after the tubing. A solenoid type pump in the reservoir pumps oil a drop at a time as required rather than relying on gravity feed.
The display unit is easy to set up. Once the system is primed, you calibrate the units motion detection and set the required drop interval. Once you start moving the unit turns on and everything is automatic. My chain is looking lightly oiled with minimal splatter, and what splatter there is cleans off a lot easier than the castrol chain oil.
The display indicates oiling on/off, drop rate, temperature, acceleration and reservoir level.
I guess it's nice to know that it's working, but I am quite tempted to mount all this under the seat with the rest. The temperature down in my cowls is a lot hotter than outside at 4am on the way to work so the readout is a bit meaningless, and frankly anyone who monitors their acceleration with this unit instead of looking where they are going is a moron! People like a few gimmicky features i guess.
I kit had all the bits to mount everything and good instructions. Most of the time taken to install is nutting out where to put everything. I think I will need to top the oil up about every 1500km.
Cost was $500- ouch, but if it saves some chain-life, some fingertips, tipping my bike over again trying to put it on my shitty paddock stand, and some hassle- thats cool.
I'm about to replace my chain. Chain has done about 35000km and is still in limits using the Castrol Chain Oil once a week and after rain. Not bad for a big bike. Will be interesting to see how the new one lasts with the Esystem.
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