Like 200i: Check oil before each ride ???

[Draco]

My Like 200i owner's manual states to check the oil before each ride.  Is this really necessary?  Or does the engine burn oil to the extent that this is necessary?  I realize that it only takes a minute or two but I don't do this for any of my other bikes . . . .

[Snoopzilla]

My Like 200i owner's manual states to check the oil before each ride.  Is this really necessary?  Or does the engine burn oil to the extent that this is necessary?  I realize that it only takes a minute or two but I don't do this for any of my other bikes . . . .

Not really.  I do once a week and haven’t had to add a drop to mine (I have the new Like 150i). But my last scooter (Lance Havana 125) I had to top off quite often.  I say minimum once a week to start and get a gauge for how your bike is.  Haven’t heard of 200i’s needing oil.  On the flip side before I met my girlfriend, her old buddy like 125, she had owned it 3 years without so much as an oil change, she didn’t even know it took oil.  Still ran like a champ though. 


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[Draco]

Not really.  I do once a week and haven’t had to add a drop to mine (I have the new Like 150i). But my last scooter (Lance Havana 125) I had to top off quite often.  I say minimum once a week to start and get a gauge for how your bike is.  Haven’t heard of 200i’s needing oil.  On the flip side before I met my girlfriend, her old buddy like 125, she had owned it 3 years without so much as an oil change, she didn’t even know it took oil.  Still ran like a champ though. 

Thanks! 

[Stig / Major Tom]

I don't check it every time I ride it.
I just check it before I ride it again.

Not a sermon - but the LIKE has a well made scooter engine, aircooled & carrying less than a quart of oil.

To each his own.
Stig

[Draco]

I don't check it every time I ride it.
I just check it before I ride it again.

So, if you ride it every day then you check it every day.   

[Clampett]

Most regular riders don't read their OM and are surprised at the check lists when they do.

[de dee]

  I check the oil and tires weekly but when I go on the highway at speed for a few hours I check before  I leave,  Ottawa-   montreal round trip 300 miles, 

[Draco]

Thanks for the responses.   

[Viper254]

I used to check mine once a week or every few days if I was doing a LOT (say 1000KM) of riding

[CROSSBOLT]

Once a day for me when I ride.

[vespbretta]

Well then, there needs to be a lazy guy also pulling the rope from the other side for the statistical standard curve. 
I check the oil level maybe after every 3rd to 4th gas tank filling. Equals 600km to 800km.
Most of the time there is not vey much oil "missing", but I then still refill a few little gulps to top it up again. Oil is also coolant here.
And I don´t go by time here, I go by driven Kilometers. Why? Because why should my scooter burn oil standing, resting and sitting still when not been driven for a shorter or even longer while. If it was leaking oil, I would be able to see oil on the ground underneath it. And if the piston rings were about to fail and burn excessive oil, I would also recognise it by seeing the blue smoke (burnt oil) coming out of the exhaust pipe while riding the scooter.
But of course, if you want to be a 1000% on the safe side, check as often as possible and as often as you like.