Engine Oil Top Up Intervals

I've not done enough miles to comment on the R9T, but I have done almost 100,000 on a Twin Cam GSA and RT (same engine as the R9T).
Mine generally used about 500ml every 6,000 miles. Maybe a little more when the bikes were quite new.
I had another RT that used a fair bit more oil; a complete pain on longer trips. It had done about 6k from new iirc. I changed the oil for standard mineral oil, rode it fairly hard for a couple of thousand miles (plenty of full throttle and load on the engine), then went back to semi-synth. It's oil consumption was vastly reduced.

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That engine is renowned for using oil for the first 10k then it settles down in my experience

However as part of pre ride checks you do check the oil level dont you ?

You do top it up if needed dont you ?

Top it up when it needs topping up

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My 9t is just over 2500 miles, it used 750 ml on a recent 2000 mile trip to the french alps,
Expected a bit as a previous gsa twin cam and 1150 gsa used a little,
 


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