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I believe the main reason ELF oil is recomended is that it is an oil which Montesa is confident meets the requirement for a really light gear oil that will make their clutch feel acceptable. When you get past the oil manufacturers "weight" grading and drill down into the specifications you find huge variations in the cSt, or thickness, values of 75W oils from different companies so Montesa could not just specify " any 75W equvilent" and be confident of the results. Equally they would be hard pressed to list all the diferent oils individually which do meet the requirements so have resorted to simply naming one oil that they know will work. Unless ELF oil contains magic fairy dust any oil with similar charactistics will perform in a similar manner. Interestingly this problem also occurs for Fork and shock oil. When you compare the viscosity of different brands of fork oil using a more appropriate method of measurment you find that one brands 5W oil has the same viscosity as another brands 15W oil.

I have a Peet Boot dryer, works great and very portable so can easily take it away and use it in the hotel room when away from home.

I have TLR250 but should be similar. I tried a good (expensive) motorcycle wet clutch friendly oil which resulted in a very grabby, juddery, noisy clutch. After contacting the previous owner and looking through the forums I changed to (cheap) Castrol GTX (20w50 I think) friction modified car engine oil and intsalled a clutch anti-judder kit. The improvement was huge, the clutch now works as it should.

The clutch actuating fluid replacement is interesting and worth trying I have just replaced the gearbox oil on my 2017 4RT Standard. From the dealer I bought it from it was probably RockOil Gear Pro. ELF oil difficult to get in New Zealand though not imposssible. I was going to use RockOil again but special order from local Motorcycle shop. When I explained I wanted a really light oil they suggested Maxima MTL75W which they had in stock. I changed it this afternoon and so far really impressed with the 30 minutes I tried around the back garden. The clutch feels much more progressive and easy to modulate. Easy to find nuetral as well. The real test will be how it performs when fully hot during a days trials competition but so far so good Interesting the specs for the Maxima oil are 32cSt@40c and 6cSt@100c, very close to the ELF specs and the added advantage of being intended for use with wet clutches.

Thanks Warn, will check them out

Does anyone know if the springs on the 4RT Standard Ollé shock are the same as the Ollé shocks fitted to the Beta's I am after a heavier spring and all the aftermarket springs I can find are only for the Showa shocks but a couple of places list a range of springs for Ollé shocks for Beta's