Hello all

I arrived to Cape Town yesterday. 26800 km and 6 and a half months from my home. Later today I'll be meeting Nicki. If anyone else from the forum wants to meet up, feel free to PM or SMS me at +358505817695. I'll be staying here for about two weeks or so.

I'm having trouble with the bike; I noticed in Namibia that the engine oil level is alarmingly low - the dipstick didn't get wet! This totally surprised me because the bike hasn't consumed oil before and the last oil change was only 3500 km before. I flushed the engine with engine flush and changed the oil again and now I'm hearing abnormal noises from the engine . And it's consuming oil even more than before. The bike doesn't seem to smoke more than normally, it doesn't leak either and there's no excessive oil in the airbox. Gonna check the coolant today.

I just hope I didn't do any permanent damage to the engine. The noises that I'm hearing, are a rattle which could be the timing chain and this kind of low "howling" that comes and goes in every few seconds. Any ideas, anyone?

Really hating myself for not checking the oil level early enough but I thought I knew the bike and it's behaviour by now.

Jami