Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

If you want the best protection and longer drain interval with your engine oil, I would suggest going with super lubes based on nanotechnology
Some examples : Ceratec (very expensive), LiquiMoly engine oil additive (Average), Armorol additive(cheapest and best performance among all in my experience)

I have seen engine oil much cooler and picks up same speed with very very less throttle (For conservative drivers, they see more mileage)
For hardcore drivers, they see much more power available at each gear and makes them wish if they had 1 more additional gear.

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Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

Nothing such would happen. Most vehicle manuals suggest varying oil grades depending on the season. If changing oil grades on a prehistoric mill like mine can work without issues, I'm positive that it would do just fine in modern mills like the Hornet.

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Second that.

My CT100B has a motor that came out in the early nineties and the recommended grade is 10W30 as per the manufacturer, I've used 20W50 year round from the first oil change and she's roaring along fine about to cross the 30k kms milestone in a day or two. The key pointer when it comes to oils is drain intervals with respect to sump sizes, as long as that's taken care of you can use the cheapest motorcycle oil around and still face no issues.

@All,

As the norm in international forums, I believe members should be discouraged from asking generic queries that have been debated to death way before our time, a link would suffice to the Dan's MC Course shared by PSR sir, as it more or less contains every thing there is to know and learn about motorcycles.

EDIT: Here's the link

Do your own research and make up your own decisions, at the end of the day it's your motorcycle. Plus it reduces forum clutter and makes it easily accessible for the queries that matter.

Thats just me.

Ride Safe.

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

Hey Guys,

Done 1500 kms and the bike is better than expected. No major issues to report off. Driving about 40kms/day in mixed conditions and I dont feel tired or anything! . The headlights have been adjusted to be a bit lower and the throw is decent now, i dont think i need any aux lights for now.

is there an official time for breaking period end? It seems all over the place from diff articles.

One minor niggle i noticed when i apply rear brakes, there is a squeaking sound , not sure where this is arising from and if i should be concerned or take it to the shop to get it looked at? Mine is the rear drum version.

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

Clean the rear brake shoes with sandpaper/emery paper, also clean the drum. You will not hear the squeaking/squealing sound for some more kilometres.

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There's nothing as such.
The only goal is to let the components bed in properly while giving smooth accelerator inputs. You can hit 100 kph if you wish provided the road is safe and your throttle inputs are linear and smooth.
500 km/1000 km/1500 km etc are approx values set in by the manufacturers by when all components would have bed in properly (an assumption), whereas in reality if you maintain just 40-50 kph for 2000 km in the hopes of not hurting your engine, you'd have glazed them already.

The target is to expose the engine to varying loads. Keyword is "be gentle and linear".
Arbitrary example : Say the bike redlines at 10k revs.
First 200-300 km, maintain under 5000-5500 revs. Vary from 1500 to 5500 for a few seconds every now and then.
If possible, drain the oil (and oil filter wherever applicable).
Next 500 km, go as high as 8000 revs. Vary from 1500 to 8000 in a similar fashion by then.
Once these 2 milestones are done, you can do up to 9000 revs till the official service intervals arrive.
Change oil and oil filter and you're good to go.

P.S : Always use all gears (clothing as well as gearbox ones).

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thanks for the detailed response. I pretty much drive the way you have described. Until first service drove around 6000 rpms with varying rpms. Now after 2nd service, i am hitting upto 8k rpms again varying a bit ( thanks to the hyd traffic, there is no way i can drive in constant speeds even in highways.

Good one on the gear part I have a tough biker leather jacket which i am using, but its getting extremely hot, for pants do we have anything breathable available in India? Atleast for long driver, I can get one.

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

You can get Riding Jeans from ZEUS MOTORCYCLE GEAR,. Alternatively, get training pant from Decathlon Trekking pants (They are super comfortable, quick dry and can be used as casual) and over the top knee protection.

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The fellow riders who have CBS Variant of Hornet, Can you guys confirm it your front tyre slips immediately when applying front brake in a hurry?
I mean stoppies are just impossible for me. The front tyre immediately slips. I inspected the tyre and it is not worn yet. 20k kms clocked.

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Yes, it locks the front brake pretty badly in panic braking. When you panic brake, the rear wheel tend to slow down very quickly resulting the effect to front wheel, due to effect of combi brake. This is more noticeable while solo riding. With pillion the weight of rear wheel is much more than front wheel, this make very confident braking and best use of CBS. Similar for scooty where CBS works good as engine weight more at rear wheel.
You need to find sweet spot for rear brake for CBS.
You can disconnect the CBS system from front break.

I have fallen down once, I am not sure if it was CBS or rear wheel lock. I have changed my breaking habit not to squeeze too hard and downshift quickly.