Check your oil!

We always advise our customers to check their oil every time they take their bike out for a ride.  It’s real easy to do on a CSC motorcycle:  Just hold the bike straight up and look in the view port on the right side of the engine.  If you see oil between the lines, you’re good.  There’s more detail on this in our maintenance tutorials, which you can find on the CSC website.

A motorcycle uses more oil when it’s new (that’s because the rings haven’t fully seated yet).   The TT250, being a CG clone, will also use more oil when it is ridden at high rpm (high speed) or if the bike is heavily loaded, so checking the oil frequently is even more important under these conditions.   There’s only a little over a quart of oil in the TT250, so checking your oil frequently is mandatory.  On our ride down to San Felipe (about a thousand-mile round trip) I checked my oil every morning, and I had to add a little bit every couple of days.   It’s part of riding a motorcycle and it’s just one of those things you have to do, like checking your chain and lubing it every day on long trips.  If you take a brand new TT250 and ride it at freeway speeds, for starters you’re not breaking the bike in properly and it’s likely you’ll deplete the oil within 7oo or 8oo miles.  You have to keep an eye on your oil level.