appeals to , the Phase One endurance racing team guys have been fans of the Scottoiler for years , and Team Manager Russell Benney says a Scottoiler is a definite for 24-hour racing , “ It saves one 90-second chain stop , which gives a lap and potentially a couple of places in a race ”. Ok , so that ’ s for endurance racing , but In terms of road riding , we hear of many riders doubling or tripling their chain life . At the price of some chains today , within one or two chains ’ worth , it ’ s paid for itself . Things have moved on and Scottoiler now has a slew of options for a range of riders from the Micro vSystem through to the eSystem v3.1 , which Eurobike , the NZ Scottoiler importer , sent through for us to try . Scottoiler claims this is the “ most advanced electronic chain oiling system in the world ”. So , to make sure we gave it a proper Kiwitough test , we fitted it to a Honda CRF1000L
Africa Twin owned by a friend of KR , Doug Cooper , and told him to spend a year testing it - just to make sure . Doug spends most of his solo riding time hunting out gravel roads and 4WD tracks , and then rides twoup with his wife for weekend trips on a mix of gravel and tar seal . The twistier the road , gravel or seal , the better in Doug ’ s playbook . He owns a very serious Nissan Safari for offroading , so wants his gear to be reliable and not need babying . He was certainly the man for this test .
FITTING Pulling the eSystem out of the box , there ’ s an LED display / control unit , oil reservoir / pump , mounting hardware and a bottle of Scottoil to lube the chain . Scottoiler says the whole lot can be installed in an hour . As Scottoiler ’ s top of the range offering , the
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