1068. Tutoro Chain Oiler | Honda CB500X

A little ride to test my newly-fitted Tutoro chain oiler.
0:00 Intro
0:12 Greeting
0:30 Grip Puppies
1:32 Tutoro Chain Oiler Purchase
2:56 Broken Nozzle
3:20 Single vs Dual-Sided Nozzle
3:56 Fling Testing - How it Works
4:57 Adjustment
5:47 Magnetic vs Brass Control Weight and Priming
7:12 Oil Check and Installation View
8:39 Recommendation

[@brockett]

Grip Puppies are very good for reducing vibes. However they are not hardwearing and although they take the strain off holding the throttle on a long run their grippy surface make it very easy to unintentionally roll the throttle. Chain Oilers - I have used a number of different makes and for me the best was the PD chain oiler. Electronic pulsed pump directing oil to a 'wick' that lightly bounced on the lower run of the chain. Any light oil in the winter and heavier oil in the summer. The chain was always clean and rear tyre oild free. However when the wick wore out I was unable to get a replacement. I have had some success with t a loobman but be careful how you spell tha on a Google search. Current bike 2X V7 Motto Guzzis have shaft drive and a little XJ600 gets a paintbrush of 90 grade every three or four rides. That said the only way to keep a chain clean and oiled is with a fully enclosed chain, but the fashion police won't permit those.

[@HippoDrones]

I have a set of grop puppies or whatever they are called in my garage, not tried them yet though.
Them fancy chain oilers are a great idea, a mate of mine swears by his... On my dirty bikes I tend to just brush heavy gear oil onto them after a dirty ride as not so concerned with fling and the grease sprays turn into grinding paste on the trail... With my road bikes I still use a dry wax spray, mostly stays put, but is annoying to have to keep applying it if doing miles/wet rides

[@slappyfz1s402]

I have just fitted Grip Puppies to my Triumph Street Twin, done about 150 miles so far and I find they help make the grips feel more comfortable.

[@CalmBiker]

The CB500X is quite buzzy on the bars and it seems to help with that too. I will definitely be keeping them on.

[@MRTPR]

I thought about installing one of these, but never got around to it. 😎Looks like your is working well, Mate

[@CalmBiker]

It takes a bit of fiddling with to get the flow rate right but it's worth it. If your rear tyre is very wide though it can get a bit messy.

[@bikersquest]

I noticed the price hike too, bit crazy.... Anyways I had dual side hose fail as well one of the feeds just fell off, the second one I got it still going strong few years on. On my FZ1 I decided to try the single feed which was way easier to install and you notice now they don't even sell the dual feed one anymore, you do notice slightly less oil on the inner side of the chain but it still gets there and I found you get less spray on your wheels as it's being released on the outer sprocket surface instead.

[@CalmBiker]

I didn't realise at the time that they stopped selling it. I looked online for a replacement and saw the message after I made the video. Good to know your still getting good results from the single-sided nozzle. I did a couple of hundred miles yesterday and had a little fling on the tyre and the chain looked nice and oily right across 🙂

[@banditnev]

I have pussie grips fitted over my oxford heated grips Richard. Never had an oiler I use chain wax every 500 kilometers.

[@CalmBiker]

We get so much blooming rain at the moment that I find I'm spraying the Z1000 chain almost every ride 😀
It's really good for long journeys. I was hoping to do the Iron Butt this year before I hurt my back and it would have been great to not have to take any lube.