Recommend oil for my old Honda

Hey all,

It's time for an oil change in my old air cooled '74 CL200. What would you use?

I've heard lore about using "non detergent" oil so the junk settles and theoretically stays put in the bottom of the crankcase (I don't completely buy this theory).

I was thinking...heck, I'll spring for synthetic oil since it doesn't take much...but maybe that's not a good idea.

I'm just curious to hear what you've had good expericne with in an old air colled, no-oil-filtered bike.

Thanks, Clem

Rotella, synthetic, or not.

That's a wet clutch bike, so make sure the oil is good for that. Do they make a synthetic for wet clutch bikes?

Castrol GTX Works great with wet clutches my oil coold race motor lasted 9 full season without any problems.

Best of all its cheap.

They do make syn with friction modifyers for wet clutches but why? Cost more...No proof it works any better in bikes. It's an old Honda if it an'it blown up by now leave it be on reg oil. Save your $$ and spend it on good tires and some "red wing" or "works" rear shocks.

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I was using GTX, but since Rotella is cheaper (and supposed to be really good), I'm switching over. The synthetic is fine for clutches.

I use Rotella 10-40 or 15-40 in my bikes and have never had a problem.

Rotella in the white jug is the non syn. Blue jug is syn. The EPA made them take out lots of the good stuff wich is why most people switched to rotella in the 1st place as desil oils lost there addatives after the gas motor oils.

If you realy want the best oil for the beast or anything with non roller cam you want BRAD-PENN Oil. a real racing oil with ZZDP. but $6 a quart http://www.bradpennracing.com/

So what I'm hearing is don't waste my money on synthetic and make sure it's ok for wet clutches.

I see no reason to stray from my normal automotive "Oreilly" house brand oil in that case...

Thanks folks!

Clem

Yup.

Word is, the thing to watch out for is 'energy conserving'. If it has that, it's a no-no for clutches.

Good to know, thanks!