For 2 years now I have been feeding my 2007 Street Glide 20W50 Amsoil at each oil change. In Canada, there is a chain called Canadian Tire that specializes in automotive supplies as well as a wide array of other sundry items. I have been paying around $13 to $14 a litre for the oil. A litre is pretty close to a quart.
Last week I went in to get some oil for the Spring change ritual and the oil is now $19.99 a litre!!!!
It's man made synthetic! How can this be? My oil changes just went up by 50%.
Has anyone else seen such ridiculous increases? What are you paying for a litre or a quart of 20W50 synthetic oil for your bike no matter what brand you use?

 

Amsoil from the sponsor here on HF forums just sent out an email saying the price of each quart is down 30cents.

 

Use dino,just change more often

 

https://www.amsoil.com/a/synthetic-motorcycle-oil

There you go. Buy it online, and save. I buy it by the gallon, I buy five gallons at a time, and that gets me four oil changes. I also buy my filters four at a time from HD. It takes 5qts, or 1gal. 1qt. to do all three holes. I spend about $300/year on oil chnages for my bike. I also put 20,000 miles a year on it too.

If you buy it by the quart, you spend $13.68/qt.
If you buy a gallon and a quart, you spend $13.49/qt.
If you by the five gallons like I do for 4 oil changes, which lasts 8 months to a year depending on you rides, you spend $12.38/qt.

All prices includ shipping and handleing to my house, your shipping may be different.

I hope this helps you, AND, if you find anywere else cheap, please let me know.

Thanks,
Jason

 

We have a sponsor that sales it? Do we get a discount? I need to start checking our sponsors.

 

Redline 20/50,case (12) 123.00 (10.25 per Quart).Free shipping to the lower 48.

 

hitone, you can do better than Crappy Tire. I bought a case of Amsoil 20W50 oil and 3 quarts of Severe Gear 75W-90 for $125 CAD last year. Truth be told, I had my son order it for me as he works at Lube-Ex part time. But I'm sure your local Amsoil dealer will set you up a lot cheaper than Canadian Tire.

 

Use Mobil 1 15w50, available from Walmart for about $25/5-qt. bottle, in the U.S. anyway. That's perhaps the best buy among the synthetic options, and the oil is excellent, born out by several oil tests performed by MC mags.

Two friends recently did BB kits on their 2000 FLH's. One used M1 15w50 for 60k miles, the other Amsoil 20w50 for 50k miles. Neither set of jugs or pistons had any measurable or visible wear on them, and the hone marks were still showing on the cylinder walls. Both bikes looked identical in terms of wear.

IMO anything over $10/qt. is ludicrous, and if I were paying that much I would shop around.

 

People, people, you have to look north for the difference in the dollar last December HD parts went up 25% because of the money difference, freight costs, once goods come into Canada are twice US prices, and Wally does not carry all the stuff the US stores do.

We are a very large country with a very small population and high taxes, it costs to live here, even with most of the base stock for petroleum products coming from Canada.

And to add fuel to the fire I would not buy Amsoil if it was a buck a quart.

 

Valvoline Synthetic now has more anti-wear additives than Mobil 1 and is under $8 a quart. Last year it was under $5. Oil is less per barrel this year than last--go figure.