I hope someone can shed some light on this.
I've had a search on HUBB, and internet in general, and can't find a great deal of info that seems specific to my problem, sorry if I'm repeating an old story though.

Bike is a 2008 Honda XR650L
I am now about 7,000 miles into my hopefully RTW trip
Bike has about 13,000 miles on the clock
www.GABE-RTW.co.uk

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I'm losing a lot of oil. It's being lost, I'm almost certain, from the sump breather.
I though it was splashing up the hose somehow, and getting, in liquid form, into the airbox, back thorugh the filter, and leaking from the airbox cover.
I went to add a length of pipe to the hose connecting sump and airbox, as a solution to the splashing, that I thought was the problem.
But a Russian engineer I got chatting to, suggested it may be 'blow-by', where leaks past the piston rings pressurise the sump area, and force air out of the sump breather.

I decided to disconnect the breather tube, and started the engine, sure enough clear pulses of air were coming from the tube, and putting my finger in the flow of gas, I could feel the moisture of oil vapour in the air.

So then...

As one of my many wise modifications, I removed a charcoal canister from the sump breather system, and it is now just a plain hose.
Is this part of the problem?
What, if any, amount of gas would you expect to be coming from the sump breather?
I am thinking I'll get a set of rings somehow, and find a workshop somewhere, and replace them.
Is this the best thing to do, are there any other checks I need to do?
Does anything else need to be replaced, along with the rings?


DJORob, if you're reading this and wondering why I didn't contact you direct... I know you have more than enough on your plate at the moment, it's not that I'm being rude buddy.