Oil On Right Hand Exhaust

Strange that.... might not even be from your bike?
If it was oil from your bike coming out whilst you’re riding I would have thought it would be streaked
That looks like its been splashed by something when it was parked?

 

Have you sprayed lube on your chain recently? It's easy to put too much on but quite how it splattered there I'm not sure...

 

I had this on my thruxton, if you have a front sprocket cover, take it off and have a look around there, the chain oil flicks off and gathers under the front sprocket and then drips out onto the exhausts etc, you’d be amazed at how much crud gets up there, I clean mine out regularly as it just turns into grinding paste, if you can’t get the cover off use a stick to try scraping it out.

 

Have to agree with crispey on this. An incredible amount of crap gets collected here and I now clean mine out regularly. It's worse if you use oil to live the chain but not too bad with wax. Had small stones in mine once!

 

I’ve heard people say they’ve “splashed out on a new bike but never seen the actual result”
Not helpful, I know.

 

Didn't read that bit mate - short attention span!

 

That oil looks fresh I had a similar issue and it was coming out of the corner of the cam cover and blowing back onto the sidepanel and dripping onto the exhaust pipe.

 

Is it defiantly oil ?
If so is it clean / new?

 

Could be hydraulic fluid

 

Or brake fluid?

 

Looks like another Bonneville foible, add it to rusting spokes. steaming clocks, dissolving crankcases ..............

 

The oil filter sits right behind that exhaust pipe also mine had a drip once wiped off never came back id wipe the pipe off and keep an eye on it

 

Forget it, now.

 

Ooh Err !

 

Could be man fat. Some folk get very excited by the new Bonnevilles.