Hi all,

First of all greetings,

First post on the forum.
I bought an XT600 with 12000 KMs on the clock for 800 euros, pretty good price. Its a kickstart only but it's quite easy to start, There's a few things going on with it.

- The last owner(also the first owner) put 5 liters of oil into the motorcycle, And now i think its been running like that for a while. First off all that is way to much oil for this bike.. Anyhow i did an oil change and checked the valves and now the level is good. I can only measure when warm but that's fine

- Second thing, the bike makes some kind of knocking noise, I bought it thinking it would be impossible the low end would be shot so soon, it runs good and has plenty power. I was thinking it might be of the absurd amount of oil in the bike, but i think you guys know better. But still i want a nice running engine, i'll post a video tomorrow of the sound. I hope its the clutch cover bolt i heard about, But i wasnt able to find a tutorial to fix this problem.

- Here in the netherlands we recently got E5 replaced with E10, which sucks. E10 is a gas with more bio ethenal, On german forums some say the xt runs fine, and others are having problems. My problem is the bike stumbles when warm on idle, and if the idle rpm is to low it just dies. Pretty akward with a kickstart only bike at the traffic lights. Now im wondering what you guys think is the curlprit of the bogging.

If i finish this tank of gas i'll try more expensive e98 see if that makes a difference

Oh and the front end is like really slow and not quick from turn to turn, is this normal for the xt? I had a honda dominator which handled better to the feel.