Amazing, Niek. It's a credit to you that the bike is lasting so well. What oil are you using, and what are your service intervals?
Anyway, good for you. Excellent.

:laughing6::laughing6: I always used mineral 10W40 of various producers. When the bike started to consume lots of oil (around 100.000km) I switched to the cheapest oil I could find, car oil 10W40 from Action and I did not change it, just topped it up. The last month 2x a week. Kept changing the filter every 20.000km.
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Now I am going back to changing every 10.000km and filter every 20.000.

That is amazing. Clearly I am over-servicing my bike. I think I will have to reform.

Maybe one of your secrets is the long distances you do every day. I am extremely impressed that you do so in weather that would have me trembling and semi-frozen. And complaining a lot.

Legend.

I just see it as my daily adventure. One adventure a day keeps the doctor away (from my bike and me)

I think you're right! But, as I said mate: Legend.

Ive read some high milage stories and most of them never stuck to orginial service plan the manufacturer laid down and most lengthened oil changes and filter changes and play it by eye/ear to what the bike is telling them the higher the milage they go. But i agree i think its alot down to the big miles per day you do, meaning the engine etc all get more time to warm up and put the miles on when its warm etc etc where as over here in uk we general do shorter runs meaning more stop starts for the engine, more labour, more cold time etc.

But keep us informed as ive just agreed money on a tenere (use to have XTR) and reason why i wanted it was to hold on and do high miles, back to more servicing of the bike myself (havent really done much servicing myself on tiger 1050 part from top oil, adjust chain etc), slow me down again (Tiger and me like the faster speeds!!!) also the off roading capabilities of the tenere are a bit higher than Tiger 1050

Hi Niek, So what is the new oil consumption after the overhaul?
Did you end up re-nicasil the cylinder? What did you do to the cylinder before putting it back, hone, etc?

The piston was still within spec, so no new piston nor replating of the cylinder. The original hone traces were still visible.

Oil consumption became insignificant in between the oil changes.

Interesting. I ride mine very gently and mostly for commuting. 40 000 miles on now and ive only topped it up once (maybe twice) since 29 000 .