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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Yeah, I can remember that from when I had an S4R with a 996 motor. Shell were sponsoring Ducati and didn't make 10/40 which had been the recommended grade. Ducati could hardly recommend a grade their sponsor didn't offer so they changed the "official" grade to one that Shell did make. Less ponies, more heat, but sponsor's cash is powerful stuff.
    Funny that, I was using Shell Helix Ultra 5/40 synthetic in the Honda Civic 20 years ago, did they really not make a bike oil with a low viscosity?
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    Quote Originally Posted by merv View Post
    Funny that, I was using Shell Helix Ultra 5/40 synthetic in the Honda Civic 20 years ago, did they really not make a bike oil with a low viscosity?
    Alex Briggs is en route to Barcelona and a Euro bike mag has published an article linking Pedro with the proposed Petronas project. I'll send you a PM.
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    Oh dear... This isn't going to be another FP1 is it?

    Gorgeous machine, brilliant idea, sounded great, built by Suter... Abject failure, unfortunately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WALRUS View Post
    Oh dear... This isn't going to be another FP1 is it?

    Gorgeous machine, brilliant idea, sounded great, built by Suter... Abject failure, unfortunately.
    Not really. Petronas were reportedly interested in sponsoring a satellite Yamaha with Jorge as pilot. Jorge is no longer available but Pedro might be and last I read there is, as yet, no Yamaha satellite team. So you can see why a magazine might add 2 + 2 and possibly get 10?

    Yamaha have been pushing hard in South East Asia and Petronas is based there, so there are reasons why such a marriage might appeal to both parties. If something is going to happen though it needs to happen in the next coupla weeks or so.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Not really. Petronas were reportedly interested in sponsoring a satellite Yamaha with Jorge as pilot. Jorge is no longer available but Pedro might be and last I read there is, as yet, no Yamaha satellite team. So you can see why a magazine might add 2 + 2 and possibly get 10?

    Yamaha have been pushing hard in South East Asia and Petronas is based there, so there are reasons why such a marriage might appeal to both parties. If something is going to happen though it needs to happen in the next coupla weeks or so.
    Dani has huge support in South East Asia too so pretty sure the fans wont mind.

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    Quote Originally Posted by merv View Post
    Funny that, I was using Shell Helix Ultra 5/40 synthetic in the Honda Civic 20 years ago, did they really not make a bike oil with a low viscosity?
    Sounds odd - 10w40 has been a stable bike oil weight for absolute decades.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanB View Post
    Sounds odd - 10w40 has been a stable bike oil weight for absolute decades.
    Synthetic for rather less though - in the case of Shell anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Autech View Post
    Yamaha also developed a new oil a while back which gave them a few more hp.

    Enough exploring oil though thats illegal in our country

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    no it isnt ,only new searches are not permitted

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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanB View Post
    Sounds odd - 10w40 has been a stable bike oil weight for absolute decades.
    In the early days of synthetics, the oil manufacturer's tried to outdo each other by making wide viscosity oils. Mobil used to do a 0W-50 from memory.

    But on a bike, you want shear stable oils without viscosity improvers (VI) so that they don't get chopped up in the gearbox. So most motorbike synthetics are more normal viscosities like 10W-40 that don't need much or any VI's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BMWST? View Post
    no it isnt ,only new searches are not permitted
    Erm which is kind of what I said?

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    An extra press conference has been included in the schedule for Barcelona. A Dani Pedrosa solo press conference.
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    Enough about oil. Tell me about tyres again.


    AND - Now for something completely different: Pick me a top 3 for this weekend...
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    An extra press conference has been included in the schedule for Barcelona. A Dani Pedrosa solo press conference.
    Please let him stay on MotoGP... He is still head and shoulders () above most of the field.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dadpole View Post
    Please let him stay on MotoGP... He is still head and shoulders () above most of the field.
    I dunno. If the bike isn't capable of giving him a title he should go do something else n rest his poor mangled body.

    Be sad to see him go though

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    Agree though I can think of many riders on factory bikes that he is far more talented than

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