Your consumption won't drop much unless you have a different oil put in as some are better than others. The fix is expensive - is it under warranty? You could ask for a compression test to be completed on it. What year is it?
if you start your bike an leave it ticking over on stands over time it may burn oil little more mix with hard riding an hot days when engine temp hit 95/100 it will burn so topping up lit can be justified in my opinion
I put in 250mil on average between 4k oil changes, always use Castrol Power 10/30 semi syn. 2010 RA model. For me its is the first Blade I have ever had to top up between services in nearly a 1/4 million miles covered, but I see that usage as acceptable.
My 2010 uses a bit when the weather's hot and I'm thrashing it. It probably uses about 600-800 mls between services. It's bloody annoying I think as I always have to take a litre of oil away on trips...which takes up valuable luggage space. I probably wouldn't buy another Fireblade until they've completely redisigned this engine because of this issue.
my takes 200-300ml for 1000km.... so betewan services i upload something about 1-2L of semisynthetic castrol oil
Dunno If im imagining things but my Blade uses a lot more oil if I only top up to the half mark. If I top up to more than 90% ish the consumption is much lower.
My 2012 uses around 200ml per 1000miles. I'd rather it didn't use anything but a litre of oil for topping up easily lasts between my 4000mile oil changes, with some to spare. Acceptable, but not ideal. My '02 ninja 636 never ever used a drop between services and I sold it with 43k miles on the clock Sam
When cars all started getting into the long life oil regimes, there was much discussion over the amount of oil needed between services, ultimately they were designed to burn off oil, that got rid of large amounts of contaminants that built up, and also meant that in effect most owners were adding enough oil to complete nearly a full oil change between service dates, so not really long life oil after all. My current car drinks about 2 litres of long life fully syn between services at 10K miles, with a total sump capacity of 4.5 litres. Again, with these high performance engines, it makes sense to sacrifice some oil in the name of keeping everything in top working condition and fully lubricated, oils cheaper than engine parts. What we do not know is the approach each manufacturer takes on this issue, there is a drastic difference between being designed to drink some oil under certain loading conditions and drinking oil due to accelerating engine wear.
Once upon a time some 4-stroke engines also used to INJECT oil into the cylinders on purpose... Mainly for cooling IIRC... However maybe the engineers of the fireblade were 2-stroke fans... H
I thought that but my 954 uses zero oil and as far as i understand the RR6 and RR7 don't use any, they are as tuned (for their day) as the current one.
My RR6 did not need topping up between oil changes after 3.5 K and she kicks out 168 bhp so not that much different from a newer model so not sure that tuning is the cause of the extra oil usage. I wonder if the engine internals on the newer bikes use more oil because there is more friction and thus components get hotter and burn off the oil ? Maybe some changes were made to materials/sizes or tolerances.
That's a real shame! Did he test ride both bikes? My 2010 only uses more oil on the track and I really don't care about it using oil when it's such a awesome machine to ride! He'll probably find in trying to save himself buying oil, he'll spend way more in petrol as the gixers is quite thirsty compared to our Blades and isn't as polished a package as the Blade either.
I am constantly topping up my 2011 one, i find it a pain in the ass, std end can always looks like there has been a bonfire in the end of it!
