The other day, while I was at my local Cycle Gear shop, I decided to pick up some Water Wetter and Galfer brake fluid.
Water Wetter is a radiator water treatment fluid, an alternative to the usual glycol based antifreeze and it actually works better. http://www.redlineoil.com/products_coolant.asp If you're going to hit the track, you're usually not allowed to have the glycol stuff in your radiator anyway, so I thought it would be a good change. The Galfer Super Dot 4 brake fluid has a really high boiling point, so it will have minimal expansion during extended heavy braking application.
While cruising the aisles, I ran across their large selection of motorcycle engine oils. Castrol, Motul, PJ1, synthetic, full synthetic, aye-yay-yay! There were so many different brands and types to pick from, I didn't have a clue what I would get. I decided to go home and do a little research on my own. I found this really good article written by Sport Rider magazine.
http://www.sportrider.com/tech/146_0308_oil/
Afer reading through that article and a couple of others, I think I'm going to go with the Castrol R4 Full Synthetic oil. At Cycle Gear, they sell it for about $10 per quart. I'll see if I can find it cheaper online.
A collection of blurbs stemming from mostly the motorized projects that I do. Some posts mixed in have to do with my experiences in X-ray school. (Some entries are from older blogs that I killed off.) Some of my toys are a Mazdaspeed Miata that I work on and take to the track, a little Harley that I can't stop modding and an old Yamaha RD400 that I've been collecting parts for over the past 15 years. When I'm not wrenching, sometimes I mountain bike, sometimes I snowboard, sometimes I make beer.
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