The rising price of 2-stroke oil

[Al]

6000miles a year on a Vespa means that I get through a fair bit of 2-smoke oil.
These have been bought over the last 5-6months.
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I thought oil prices had come right down (weak £??? ), I know these are all from the same shop, but I've been looking at a few garages and they seem to be going up at an alarming rate as well.

Might start stocking up if it carries on rising at this rate
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[ms51ves3]

I've noticed this.

My Carlube £2 a litre is now £3 a litre

[MattEMulsion]

It is probably all related to the rise in crude oil prices that we saw last year. Where as fuel (petrol/diesel) is a fast turn around commodity which will reflect the crude oil price quickly, I would guess that your 2 stroke mix oil isn't really and as such takes a long time for the price to rise and fall in accordance with the crude oil price.

Consider how often your bike dealer will sell a bottle of that 2 stroke oil, then think how many times a year he orders in his stock of that product - it won't be many. Consider that the supplier (Putoline) will have the oil in stock for a long time after it is made and before it is sold on to your dealer etc and then you can see why the chain of price rises takes so long to come down the line.

In theory it should start to get cheaper rather than more expensive but as we often see with many things, prices go up when they have reason to, but never seem to come down when the shoe is on the other foot.
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[Paulington]

I'm lucky enough to buy it gallons at a time because of my racing, requires a lot of it. So I just use the same stuff for my RS.

But man, that is some increase.

Should end up getting cheaper though.
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[.Chris.]

There's no way I'd put £7.50/l synthetic 2 stroke in a Vespa!
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[ms51ves3]

[Paulington]

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[Al]

Well it was only £5.99 a few months ago

The cheap stuff seems to gunk up the plug after a few hundred miles. This is what a Vespa specialist recommended and it has been fine on synthetic Putoline, the plug looks brand new even after 2000miles of short journeys, so it pays for its self really.
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[Paulington]

[neatbik]

Last week the tyre manufacturers put their prices up too, again linked to the price of oil...

[bikedemon99]

[neatbik]

I get it all the time dude, i really cant go anywhere without being mobbed..

[blutonium92]

7.50? aint bad at all!
I used to use a bottle of Castrol TTS every 4 tanks at 13.50 a pop for my RS.
Pretty much added 25% to my petrol costs and only ever got about 55mpg out of it.

[baldy]

The putoline where i live is £11.99! When i had my ped i used to buy the cheap shit from the petrol stations fo £2, never had any problems. When i got the nsr i only used the finest blend, grown in the hills of columbia....
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[ms51ves3]

[iooi]

You use so much, so why not buy it by much larger quantites. Smooth out the price a bit....

Always used to buy it by the gallon before.
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