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Message: [QUOTE="Patman, post: 1325284, member: 16962"] What most people do is ignore things and buy a new bike and pass the potential problems on to the next guy. Then somewhere along the line a piston shatters, a crank or rod fails and there are expensive busted metal pieces all over. At this point people blame the bike or engineer or company that built it and not the real reason. There is a real and valid reason that the specifications in the factory manual should be met and it's to keep the really expensive pieces from needing to be replaced. Sort of like people that never change the oil in say and XR100. Sure it will run with road tar in the cases.... for a while and a lot longer than most bikes but even it will die long before it should. Most race bikes have similar requirements no matter 2 or 4 stroke it's just the 4T has more moving parts and thus needs even more love than a typical 2T but the common parts typically have a similar life span. That being said there is no reason to not take a bike that is in unknown condition and recondition it to a level that will make one comfortable taking it on an extended ride with some level of comfort that they will return to where they started. [/QUOTE]