Two-stroke oil usage

**prvoke** · 19th December 2006, 11:26

Right so i know have my 1st bike - KR150a (cheers Racey Rider)
ive only commuted on it twice now (200km return) im using around 9L gas and 230-250ml oil give or take. Just wondering what the normal oil usage is like as the stuff i got was $25 per L so it brings up the running costs a tad. If that usage is normal i might look into a cheaper oil haha

**Motu** · 19th December 2006, 11:37

I do about 1,000km per litre.

**Ixion** · 19th December 2006, 11:42

1000km/l is a typical figure. Petal is odd, does nearly twice that about 2000km/l. But it sokes like a smokey thing and the pump setting is correct - over oiling if anything. I guess it's because the fuel consumption is so bad.

**vamr** · 19th December 2006, 11:57

I do slightly below that on my KR... around 800ml per 1000km. It's definately quite slow in consumption of 2t.

**Ghost Lemur** · 19th December 2006, 12:24

The CRM is incredibly economical on oil. I've only topped it up twice since I got it.

I might top it up again and do 500-1000k's and see exactly how much she's using.

**Racey Rider** · 19th December 2006, 13:00

$25 per litre for 2/ oil?!!

Even the Full synthetic I use in the race bike is only $17/L.

My suggestion was you should only need semi synthetic oil for commuting with.
I've seen suitable stuff at $10/L at Supercheap Autos.

**prvoke** · 19th December 2006, 13:21

that was for Fuchs comp 2 silkolene (spelling)
found they do a cheaper version for $14.50 for 1L so grabbed that instead

**geoffm** · 19th December 2006, 19:03

RG500 gets around 800k/l of bloody expensive fully synth oil, sometimes less if you wring its neck all the time.
Geoff

**SlowHand** · 19th December 2006, 21:16

Old RG was 1.2L per 350km...

**vamr** · 19th December 2006, 21:22

Originally Posted by geoffm

RG500 gets around 800k/l of bloody expensive fully synth oil, sometimes less if you wring its neck all the time.
Geoff

What's the oil that you run on if you don't mind me asking?

**jade** · 24th December 2006, 11:58

I use castrol TTS fully synthetic 2 stroke - its main emphasis being on more protection at higher rpm - 28 bucks a litre - from cycletreads or super cheap auto - elf is also quite good and puts off the best smell - about 34 per L tho

**gammaguy** · 2nd January 2007, 18:22

my bikes are all strokers.St 125 gets around 700km per litre,but its working the hardest.RG 400 about 1200 km per litre,runs clean as a whistle.TDR 250 somewhere in the middle at 1000km per litre.I run Rock Oil synthesis fully synth in all my bikes,never had a problem with it so i stick with it.Seems the smaller they are the longer the throttle is fully open therefore longer oil pump is too.makes sense!