Dave wrote on 02/26/17 at 13:49:50:piedmontbuckeye wrote on 02/26/17 at 09:37:23:Are you saying that NO ONE can make a better oil? Nothing else can ever come along? I guess there is no such thing as progress in your world!
Better in whose opinion? The EPA....the guys who are taking out the ZDDP and ruining our cams? The guys that are adding friction modifiers and making our clutches slip?
Sometimes "new and improved" isn't the right answer for old technology.
100% agreement with your observation. There is no one alive more opposed to the EPA crap that is out there.
My only statement is that you guys seem so one sided. I suspect that there are alternatives out there that you seem to ignore.
I talked to a pretty close friend of mine - who works on the pit crew of a nationally known dragster racer. He is all about oils and what works. He knows all about ZDDP etc. etc. He mentioned two or three other oils that are at least equal to your precious Rotella.
I am not opposed to Rotella, only observing that there could be others that meet the specs you so dearly love, but haven't shown (to me at least) the evidence of it superiority over all other oils.
The one piece of evidenced was a pic of a ruined camshaft. But clearly that pic was of a camshaft that had been rusted (probably because the bike had been stored for a long time), so the wear was due to rusty, pitted cam lobes, and was NOT due to using something other than Rotella.