Doc said:
Mobil 1 15w50 doesn't have the additives to make it energy conserving. If it says energy conserving in the circle on the back of the bottle, it will have friction modifiers in there and your clutch will begin to slip. Basically, anything 10w and lower will have the friction modifiers in it unless it is motorcycle specific oil.
Wal-mart does sell it and I know of dozens of guys that use it and road race w/ it in their R6s. You wouldn't think you could get it there, but you can. It's usually there because most people don't put 15w50 in their cars and it's a full synthetic.
If Motul semi-synthetic was easy to find down here I would go that route, but I haven't seen any. I've heard nothing but great things about it.
Doc
hmm, saw this on another board.
From Motorcycle Consumer News letters, July 2002
<to the proper oil specs. So, imagine my surprise when I found out that
everyone's darling has changed formula. I'm hoping this is wrong in some way
or the other.
I went to Walmart to get some Mobil 1 15w50, Tri-synthetic for the Gold
Wing, and found some new packaging. Instead of Tri-synthetic, it is now
"Super-Syn". Is this a new formula, or new marketing?
I called Mobil 1's 800# and was told that the new friction reducers make the
new formula inappropriate for motorcycles. Hmmm. They also said the rating
is now SL, or perhaps, in our case, SOL. Eric Legstrom
Millersville, MD>>
I just switched over to using some of the synthetic MX4T 10W40
According to Mobil's locator page
http://www.mobil1.com/motorcycle/index.jsp
AutoZone and Wal-Mart carry it.
If you want to go the mailorder route some other guys have posted about
http://www.avlube.com (I haven't ordered from them)