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I use normal Motul mineral oil which a lot of bike shops use in Australia for normal everyday non high-performance motorcycles. Prior to this I used ordinary garden variety Valvoline 20/50 for years in our rental bikes without any problems. This is an oil you can use in your car or in your bike. Some would argue that you must use this oil or that oil in a motorcycle because of the wet clutch this or the wet clutch that. Well in my experience there's that much BS floating around about all manner of stuff to do with motorcycles it's not funny! The bottom line is you could probably use dish washing liquid in your motor and it would still last as long as most folk would normally keep their bikes :-D
Of course I jest, but my point is that if you use the supermarket brands, this will in no way be a recipe for massive mechanical failure the following week! Perhaps in two weeks.... ? Probably not!
On the matter of oil change frequency, Triumph recomend 16,000km (10,000 miles). In my view this is too long as oil can break down and loose it's ability to lubricate. Looks like goopy black gunk as well at this age! Best to change the oil every 10,000km (6000 miles) which makes it easy to remember for us metric-philes. Just my stinky opinion, take it or leave it. Davo
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