boristas

Yeah you're right Neo but the bottle has 100ml markings on the side, so I just tip in my whole 1ltr bottle, confirm there IS 1000ml of oil and just leave 550ml in there, next time I leave 100ml.......you get the drift. Also that plastic clear hose it comes with is a perfect fit in the filler once you take off the little aly U bend. Get one, they're cheap as chips and fantastic when you're in a hurry, like after you've drowned your bike mid event and you wanna give it a quick oil change, (don't ask me how I know this ;-) BT

On the oil front I also use Maxima Extra Light But for putting it in these little Tom Thumb 1 ltr oil pumps are definitly the go go here for a look http://www.stm.net.au/index.cfm?fuseaction...mp;productID=57 BT

Howdy Folks, been lurking for a while and learnt lots. I'm on my 3rd sherco now a 2009 290R, over the last 2 bikes (a 2000 and a 2007) I've had my share of "loose rear ends" so to speak, done most jobs including linkages, new delta links, new spherical bearings in shocks etc. My '09 however has decided to add a new twist, at around 9mnths old with a couple of linkage lubes (mainly for spring and then shock changeover) the swingarm bearings have cried enough and decided to create yet anothe place for that magic bit of play to infiltrate!! so there's a new place to feel whilst someone wiggles your bike, had us guessing for a little while. Not all that surprising with this particular machine it's also had a set of steering head bearings, in that case when I pulled the bottom one, it had a special blend of grease mixed with a ground up end of a machinists tap ....nice. It will be interesting to see what I'll find when I pull the swingarm, which I wont do till I've got 4 bearings and a couple of sleeves in stock. Got to say it's a bit disapointing with a new bike, one of the reasons I traded up from the 07 was beacause all these jobs were coming up to be done. On the other hand it's an awesome bike to ride about 1000 tme better than me in fact then again so was the '07 My 2c BT