oil quantity strangeness

[j3gq_imp]

I've never known changing the oil on the CB1100, or any of my inline-4s to be messy.

Heck, the messiest part may have been pouring the used oil into a container for recycling and drying up the catch pan.

@GO: There must be a misunderstanding. Oil change isn't messy at all, very simple job indeed. But draining 200ml of oil through the drain bolt, while keeping 3 or 3.5 L of clean, new oil inside the engine, is - believe me - a messy job. Of course I could have drained it all, collect it, and refill it. But this just seemed ... TOO much for such a rainy day

j3gq, I always change the filter as well as the oil and the bike takes the recommended 3.9 litres.

I didn't want to do the filter as the user manual (EX, 2017) requires the filter change every 2nd year only, but the oil every year.