Racebikes & engine oil

How often do you guys change the oil in your racebikes? Do you do it based on number of races? Race weekends? Hours run?

Note, I am *not* asking which oil is best....

EDIT: Also, if you're changing the oil after every weekend, are you doing the filter too? Or are you doing them less frequently?

 

When I had my FZR400 I changed it after every race weekend.

Probably overkill but I did it anyway.

 

Depends. If it is Rotella you can run for an entire season on it.

Anything and it has to be changed more often.

I typically change mine every other weekend. If it is a long weekend with a practice day Friday and double-header Sprints, then I'll change it after that one weekend.

I'm sure it is still good. But the oil I use glows and smells like bananas so I like messing with it.

 

So... What is the best oil out there to use on a race bike ??

 

every weekend.

 

might as well ask what are the best available tires to race with..

 

Yeah.. throw that on on there too.. Why not?

I'm with Chaotic; I change mine every other weekend 3-4 days depending on use (filter too).

 

I specifically DID NOT ASK THAT QUESTION. :wow:

I know what oil I'm going to use. I'm looking for opinions on how often to use it.

 

haha.. wasn't looking to create a shit storm eh?!

 

Really anything we do is overkill. The oil is sposed to be good for 3000mi+. I understand we are at high RPM's, but we aren't ruining the oil in those 300mi we do in a race weekend.

 

LOL.. guys I was just being facetious.. I love the oil and tire threads... really I do!!

 

Change it after every weekend and change the filter too.

 

Right, I realize frequent oil changes are part cheap insurance and part voodoo.

At any rate, I am curious to see what the range of oil change frequencies is.

 

Michelin

 

I do it once every few weekends. A couple seasons ago I only did race 3 total weekends, so yeah Chaotic I did run an entire season on Rotella.

 

Rotella offers a bounty for lap records, but only if you do it on a Grom.

 

Are people actually running Rotella in their racebikes or is this stemming from some knucklehead who used it and now it's part of BBS lore?