u/StarBornFire

If you look at the Edgar Cayce work in a casual manner, it doesn't seem to mention ET's much, but if you dig deeper and use holistic logic to put 2 and 2 together, things start to get very interesting. But who cares what Edgar Cayce may or may not have said, you might say, after all, he was so early 20th century. I've been researching metaphysical, spiritual, psychic, etc topics for over 3 decades now, and I've looked at MANY different psychics here and there, and I've come to consider that Cayce's Readings are in a league of their own in two very important ways. The amount of verification in many different subjects, and just how vast it was. As to the latter, it was that way, because he gave these readings for nearly 4 decades and had thousands of people ask him many different questions in that time, though he was primarily a medical intuitive.

Eventually, Cayce started to give what some call "Life Readings". This is where he would phase to the akashic records and look at a combo of their astrological indications and other life influences, especially as to karmic patterns and lives that most influenced their present personality and character.

In Edgar's own Life Readings for himself, a very interesting life and personality is talked about. This person was named Ra Ta, born around Turkiye around 10, 650 B.C. or so, and then later emigrated to Egypt and became the high priest of Egypt. There is all kinds of high strangeness around this account, starting with his unusual birth and body mutations.

Cayce's source says that Ra Ta's mother, hadn't had sex with a human father when she became pregnant with Ra Ta: "The entity chose rather the peoples that were to enter in the land, and was the son of a daughter of Zu that was not begotten of man..."  Excerpted from reading 294-147.

In another reading, it says, "For with the entering in of Hermes with Ra..." it continues later to say, "there was brought the idea of the preservation of these, not only for those in the present but for the generations that were to come in the experiences and experiences throughout that period, until the changes were to come again in the earth's position that would make for, as it had in this inundation that brought about Ra Ta's coming in the experience from the gods in the Caspian and the Caucasian mountains* [StarBornFire's comment--where he was initially born], that had brought this change in the peoples..." Excerpted from reading 294-151. *-my use of bold and italics.

Then, the readings talk about multiple times, that Ra Ta was very unusual looking at the time. He had blue eyes and fairer skin. If you know about anthropology and genetics, you will know that 12k+ years ago, blue eyes was not yet a thing (mutation) among Caucasians. Cayce's source literally said that Ra Ta was the first more Euro type white (vs say Middle Eastern Caucasian types with brown eye, brown hair, more tan skin) in the Earth at the time.

Hmmm, did not have a human father, the "gods" brought about his conception or "coming in", and he had clear/overt unusual mutations. It couldn't sound anymore like an ET project.

Probably not related to his body's mutations, but Ra Ta was unusually psychic-intuitive for his time, at a time it was said that humans were more psychic-intuitive than they tend to be now (though that is clearly changing rapidly as time goes on).

Then, when Ra Ta was finished with his earthly work (and frankly was getting tired of his fellow humans...word), Cayce's source did not say that he died, but used the very unusual verbiage of, "he ascended to the mount and was borne away." To be "borne away" is like being "carried away." Sounds to me like he got "Elijahed"! Or, ET in human body "phone home" (get me dafook out of here, I can't take it anymore!).

It's amazing to me how nobody else (that I know of) has put this all together like this to realize that Ra Ta's conception/birth had been an ET project., and Ra Ta as both a soul and human personality was likely very ET connected.

I was IRL friends with who many, including myself, consider the foremost biographer of Edgar Cayce, and who wrote the meticulously and thoroughly researched, "Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet". I brought this subject up to him one time (which I still have the emails of) and he seemed both confused and incredulous towards the whole thing and asked for clarification. So I shared the specific reading excerpts from the above two readings, and pointed out that he was also the first blue eyed and lighter skinned white/Caucasian person in the earth at that time (some of the Atlanteans had blue eyes and/or lighter features, but Cayce's source considered them a separate/different ethnicity and referred to them as the "red race").

On a side note, my meeting of and friendship with Sidney contained some high strangeness (not ET related though) in and of itself. If anyone is interested, I can talk about that in a follow up reply.

Most spiritually and/or metaphysically minded would agree that we are not our physical human animal bodies, but rather consciousness that is inherently nonphysical in nature. But what are physical bodies? Nothing is apart from consciousness-what we call physical is consciousness too, but for lack of a better analogy, it is consciousness at a different rate of vibration/frequency than our nonphysical consciousness.

In this analogy, physical is at a very slow, and "densified" vibration. If one doesn't like the term vibration, you can also use a phrase of field or stream of information/data and in that analogy, the stream of information and data is less coherent than the stream of information in nonphysical consciousness.

So what is ego then? Ego is what you get, when a nonphysical consciousness's stream of data decides to temporarily "resonate/match up to" the stream of data that is the physical.

Or in more simple, symbolic terms, we can think of our nonphysical consciousness as light of different colors depending on the individual being shined through a lens or filter. But this lens or filter is not colorless. It is colored a dark reddish brown color. So even if the nonphysical consciousness's light itself is pure clear white light (the fastest vibration), it takes on some of the coloring of the lens/filter it has to shine through.

That distortion of the light (nonphysical consciousness) IS ego. It is fear based, it is separative, and it is very self protective in nature. But the truth is, we need "some" ego while phasing here. This level and collective human consciousness is VERY loud and noisy in a very inharmonious way. It is a cacophony in the truest sense of the term. Most of our nonphysical consciousness's on the other hand are very sensitive, very telepathic, and more harmonious in nature.

If we existed here with our soul senses completely open 24/7, it would be a very, very chaotic and overwhelmingly unpleasant experience. So ego acts like "ear plugs for the soul" in a sense, until we resonate strongly enough with Love that we have the strength and inner balance to open up in a balanced, safe, and constructive way. (This is why powerful psychedelic substances can be a double edged sword, because they tear down the ego filter/barrier, opening up a person to more of the larger reality).

Someone with schizophrenia is more open than the average but in an uncontrolled and chaotic way. A spiritual teacher like Yeshua or Buddha are more open than the average. But that openness and expression is in conscious, harmonious control backed by the strength and coherency of love consciousness in their case.

What is the "higher self"? It is your original self as created either by the Source or one of the fully grown up Co-Creator children. For a while, these selves would directly phase to different dimensions and experiences, but it realized that it was picking up too much information/vibration and being too affected by this, so it came up with a plan to experience all this while keeping itself more intact (sort of the equivalent of "sandboxing"). It pulled a microcosmic mini Source-Creator act.

It split itself into the many, while retaining it's original self awareness and "character". It would then send these individuated selves into these different dimensions and experiences and for different reasons. We can think of these selves as like "soul extensions of the larger Spirit". That's what you and I are, soul extensions/aspects of our original, "Spirit" self.

Based on an experience I had with communicating with my own "higher or Spirit self" (which I prefer to label original-expanded self), I have come to think that the "machine elves" of the DMT experience are likely a symbolic interpretation of the perception these higher selves. Part of the reason why, was because in this experience (a guidance dream), the "face" of my original-expanded self looked elfin in nature. It was also quite androgynous looking though ever so slightly, slightly Yin/feminine polarized.

Course it doesn't actually "look" like this or anything. It is pure nonphysical consciousness and its true "form" is its general individuality/uniqueness and that's it. But if we could take that energy/vibration and translate it into a physical form, that is what it would "look" like in a symbolic sense. It was also glowing with a silvery white light and rather than skin, its surface looked more like it was made up of many mini diamonds that were emanating this silvery white light. I even received a symbolic name label for it.

(Note, this dream came a week after a very, very intense boosted meditative spiritual experience where I temporarily remembered my Oneness with Source and the Whole for a few hours. I was still in a very fast vibratory state when I had this dream).

Anyways, this part of ourselves is much wiser, much more consciously aware, more love attuned than most of us, as extensions are, especially when we are phased into this slow vibratory level. Hence, it is very important for people to learn how to commune and communicate with their own "higher self" level. This is the best teacher you can have, except for those very rare humans who are completely consciously one with their own higher selves and with the Source.

It is far better and safer to go deeply within, than becoming dependent on or overly attached to this or that teacher in human form. Because, chances are, that teacher is also experiencing the ego distortion effect to some degree or another.

But speaking of that, that lens or filter of the physical body is not static. We CAN clean off that reddish brown coloring, but it is not a fast process by any means. It is a slow erosion process. It takes time, discipline, and a holistic pattern of raising the vibration of the physical body. Living a life of love and ethics is the strongest way, followed by right meditation, positive, helpful service to others, right prayer, etc. Essentially making a holistic habit of choosing and living Love, and over time you can clear up that filter/lens.

However, by nature of collective human consciousness as it is now, and its effects on us as individuals, you will never get it completely clear. That requires either disconnection from the body or a complete transformation of the body physical to the body Light. So far, there is only one human who accomplished the latter, and he had to have his body die first before he could do it. And he's the only one who left behind hard evidence of that energetic conversion. An explosion of super intense but super brief multi leveled light occurred to create the image left behind.

I originally wrote the below in response to someone talking about an alleged spiritual teacher they met who they said felt like they had strong spiritual power/presence. I've been aware of this guy for a long while now, did research on him, and all indications show that he was an abusive, egomaniac, negative cult leader type who was likely either on the NPD and/or ASPD spectra (as most negative cult leaders are). This is a really important subject that is not discussed enough in a holistic way.

"Would highly recommend Dr. Hare's seminal book, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us to you, if you haven't already read it.

Why? Because of the common pattern that Dr. Hare (considered the foremost researcher of psychopathy btw) personally and repeatedly experienced in relation to the unusual magnetism/charisma of these psychopathic people. He gives an example of talking to a psychopath in prison for some truly heinous crimes (like murder, rape, etc), but after talking to them for a bit, he starts liking, believing, etc the guy-it's like he comes under some kind of hypnotic spell, and he has to consciously remind himself, "this person is a psychopath and has done horrible things to people."

There is a similar, but less intense effect with some people on the NPD spectrum more strongly/further, as well.

For example, it is well known that most cult leaders have been on either the ASPD and/or NPD spectra. Have you ever wondered how do such obviously slow vibratory, super ego attuned, imbalanced people get so many followers? It seems contradictory and illogical, doesn't it?

Bet you some people when meeting them might think, "wow, they have a strong presence, some kind of spiritual power" or the like.

I figured how this "dark magnetism/charisma attraction" works energetically. These people have such stimulated/amplified lower centers (i.e. the first 3 centers/chakras) and the reds and oranges so strong in their auric fields, that when we normies come into their field, our own first 3 centers start getting stimulated and resonated strongly. The first 3 centers are all connected to ego, sexual energy, personality, survival, materialism, and the physical body/level itself.

There is a Law built into all levels of creation-best summed up in the teaching of Like attracts, begets, and resonates with Like. The physical level and human body themselves are of a slower vibration, and physical bodies innately like and gravitate towards slower vibration because that is its own nature. So our very physical bodies and our personality level (ego, etc) react strongly to the auric emanation/field of these kinds of people.

And if a person lacks deeper, intuitive discernment, they can easily confuse that with "spiritual power" or the like, which is exactly how and why so many people get taken in by negative cult leaders.

Interestingly, I've found that the more I've raised/sped up the vibration of my physical body and human energy system, the less and less most people are interested in me, especially in any deeper connection with me. I was born hyper empathic and strongly attuned to universal love consciousness, and started meditating and spiritually seeking around the time I was 12/13 and now am in my mid 40's. I couldn't start a cult even if I tried really hard as long as I stayed honest/sincere, authentic, and unusually fast vibratory.

The simple, hard truth is, this earth school i.e. humanity is NOT an advanced one in the grand scheme of things. This is a kindergartner level school, and the slight majority of human souls are at or near that level. So based on Like attracts, begets, and resonates with Like, if you're a really old/mature soul who spends most of your life consciously raising your vibration, you're actually going to repel more and more people by nature and virtue of that Law.

It's part of the reason why a large group of people saw absolute RED in relation, and deeply wanted, to get rid of Yeshua when he was public. And according to Edgar Cayce's source, the church has greatly exaggerated the numbers of people who were into Yeshua and his messages-literally said it was mostly some women and children (obviously minus the smattering of male disciples)."

This came up in a recent thread from another person where they had a dream involving an ET and the dream ET essentially said the process of connection needs to be gradual or you can go into psychotic shock. A few people on there made some very good posts/replies about the general importance of gradually raising one's vibration. I very much agree, especially based on an experience:

Almost blew the body's fuses once fairly recently (last year around this time).

Had finally gotten serious about meditation practice and for a couple months (this was because for the first time in a long time, I finally had the time and energy to focus on this), was meditating deeply everyday and eating Edgar Cayce's "mummy food" everyday. Towards the end of this, I felt guided to partake in a large dose of an Aya analogue (by myself, in my room). (I had been meditating off and on starting when I was 13 and at this point was in my mid 40's).

Before it took effect, I went very deep in meditation. Everything became/felt incredibly, incredibly still. It felt like pure void, pure peace, but super calm and neutral. Pure observation, pure "hearing". But then there was like an explosion/implosion and I was flooded with the most absolute intense, overwhelming feelings of pure love and joy, and all I could do was simultaneously laugh my arse off and cry. It was so intensely, ecstatically pleasurable it almost hurt (like a full consciousness orgasm that kept intensifying). I was realizing/re-experiencing my complete connection with Source, with the Co-Creators, with everything/the All/Whole. It's all I ever wanted, all I ever needed, and I felt like I could stay in that state forever and never want for anything else. I kept saying things like (out loud), "this is all we have ever needed, each other." It felt like perfection, complete fulfillment-the Home of homes.

I experienced this for around 3 hours or so, and it felt like my heart and body would burst. Also ended up getting some downloads about some different topics, both past and probable future related (relating to my path in this life). It took me awhile to re-ground and re-balance.

And this was after a lot of self work, spiritual seeking, meditation, holistic attunement, etc for 30+ years. A side effect from the above is that I no longer have much if any sex drive/focus now. I'm asexual like 99.5% of the time (can get aroused etc still, but its like I have to consciously try/focus on it. It doesn't happen naturally anymore. And I only try/focus if I'm having a hard time falling asleep-that expenditure of energy helps to tire me, and this is only once in a great while. It's feels more like a practical chore than something attractively pleasurable).

Anyways, all this to say, try to raise the vibration gradually. That sine wave pattern of moderate to slight ups to downs, with gradually slightly higher up peaks, has a place and purpose. It's why that is a pretty natural and common pattern. You absolutely can either blow the body's fuses or damage the protective ego barrier.

If you've been looking around in the societal zeitgeist of recent years, you may have noticed a trend in the ultra religious and/or right wing circles to label all ET and ET phenomena as 1. demonic and 2. interdimensional.

I have a hypothesis about this and that ironically, these humans are being influenced by the reptilians in this perception and belief system. How and why?

When I investigated this group psychically via communicating with my original-expanded self (or "higher self") level, I was told that this group had destroyed their home-world in a nasty global civil war a very long time ago. Though the reptilians are more psychically and nonphysically aware than humans tend to be, they are still extremely physically focused beings-in some ways, even more so than even many humans.

They've looked for home worlds to replace their long dead/inhabitable one, and that the Earth is the most similar planet they've found to their home-world. I was told that they covet the earth for their own and they want to take it. Humans are the indigenous population that are in the way of that.

Interestingly, an outer source that I respect more than not, one of Robert Monroe's long time explorers, Rosalind McKnight and her guidance talked about a negative ET group that wanted to attack humans, but that positive ET's currently are protecting us from them and outright physical attack. Unfortunately, McKnight's guidance did not name names and kept the info general about this negative group.

If all the above is true, perhaps these are the same group? And perhaps if the reptilians could convince humans that all ET's are solely interdimensional, they could misdirect from their long term plans/intentions? Because if you believe that ET's are purely interdimensional/nonphysical, then why would they care about a planet and all that goes along with same? After all, they allegedly don't really exist in the physical anyways, except to briefly manifest in same to mess with us.

Pretty clever if you ask me. The best deceptions involve a kernel or two of truth. Certainly there are very negative/psychopathic ("demonic") ET's, and certainly some ET's are interdimensional/nonphysical. But not all are in either category. There's an old saying that I think applies, "half or partial truths are worse than whole lies for they can deceive even the soul."

I think this is one of those examples of partial truths that can and is deceiving the soul of many.

I'm not a tribologist or oil expert by any means, so take the following with a grain or two of salt. With that said, I've owned cars, scooters, and motorcycles and spent a period of time geeking out on and deeply researching oil-especially after I bought my second motorcycle. I'm on my 4th scooter-a Genuine Buddy Kick 125. Tbh, eventually if I can afford it, would like to get away from ICE's and get electrified. (I have dreams of building ultra light, compact camping trailers with solar panels on them..)

I wrote this because I figured there are probably other people out there like myself that have a hard time finding scooter specific oils in person.

Anyways, onto engine oils: Car, motorcycle, and scooter oils have some similarities and important differences. Let's start with motorcycle and scooter oils. Because these are smaller, hard working, often higher RPM engines-sometimes both air cooled though becoming less and less common in motorcycles, the oils designed for these machines need to be more heat, oxidization, and shear resistant. (Wet clutches are inherently hard on oils as to shearing them, so even if they are water cooled, that is counter balanced by the wet clutch transmission).

This can be achieved in different ways-either by using relatively "better" base stocks like PAO, certain esters, GTL (gas to liquid i.e. natural gas converted to oil), AN, PIB (VERY viscous stuff) and/or by really high quality, balanced additive packages (these are almost always combined).

Regular group III's i.e. the most common base stock that is labeled "synthetic" in the US, though I think in Europe they are not, are actually pretty decent nowadays, especially when blended with some of the above and with a good additive package. But their relative strength to weakness ratio is not considered on par with most of the above, generally more expensive base stocks. With that said, every different base stock has both strengths and weaknesses and they are always blended with more than one to compensate for those relative strengths and weaknesses, and they need additives to help them to become even better.

(GTL is technically a group III as well, but many consider and label it a group III+ because it has a higher viscosity index, higher heat tolerance, and is cleaner than regular group III's).

So generally, scooters and motorcycles require thicker (higher viscosity, more viscous), more shear, heat, and oxidation resistant oils compared to cars. Some of the newer Euro cars with their turbos and direct injection engines are harder on oils and so we are seeing higher standards for these oils, often labeled "Euro". These Euro spec oils often have a more robust additive package and tend to have a bit more ZDDP than typical car oils. And tend to be higher viscosity (the 2nd number being 40 is fairly common).

Generally in cars, both ZDDP and calcium have decreased while friction modifiers like boron and molybdenum complexes have increased.

The differences between scooter and motorcycle oils: The main difference is that most motorcycles have a wet clutch and so they can't be formulated to be too slippery as the clutch plates need to have some friction to grab onto each other without slipping. This is generally achieved via a combo approach of higher viscosity, higher ZDDP levels, and relatively lower moly and boron (A LOT of calcium can decrease friction too, while a lot of magnesium can increase it a bit, but these are not really used in this way but are more detergents).

It is a misconception that motorcycle oils completely lack friction modifiers like boron and moly. If you look at enough VOA's (virgin oil analysis), you will see that a decent amount of motorcycle specific oils definitely have some boron and moly in them. They just tend to be lower total combo amounts than in car and scooter oils, while the ZDDP tends to be higher (ZDDP is anti wear, but can increase friction a bit through its sacrificial layer bonded to the metal).

Can you run motorcycle oils in scooters? Yes, it will be fine. You might lose a little overall power and MPG, but unlikely to be overtly noticeable by you. There are some very robust motorcycle oils that are great for scooters in hotter weather, but I will touch on them more specifically later.

Can you run scooter or car oil in a motorcycle with a wet clutch-generally not recommended because of the clutch, though really it depends on the specific oil in question. I've found some car oils that were suitable for wet clutch motorcycle oils--specifically Mobil 1's Euro line. I haven't seen that many VOA's of scooter oils though tbh, so don't know of any specific ones that would be ok.

As mentioned, scooters and car oils share a similarity in that they tend to have higher levels of friction modifiers like boron and moly that make the oil even more "slippery" to reduce friction, which generally increases power output and MPG a little. But car oils tend to be lighter in viscosity and not as shear, heat, and oxidization resistant as scooter oils (minus some Euro branded oils).

The effect of weather and temperature on oils: You can and should run a bit higher viscosity oil in the late spring through summer to early fall period, and a bit thinner oil in the colder part of the season than recommended. For example, say your base line scooter or motorcycle oil recommendation is a 10w-40 viscosity. In the summer you can run a 15 or 20w-50 oil, especially if your area gets very hot more consistently. Conversely, you could go with a 0 or 5w-40 during the coldest part of the year (if there is a noticeable difference).

This is what I personally do. Of course, unless your area is very, very cold during the winter, you will be fine also running just the 10w-40 oil during the cold period as well. I just prefer the thinner oil in the cold because it flows faster and easier through the engine providing a bit more protection at start up (start up is when most of the wear/damage occurs). But all in all, will it make a big difference over the life of your vehicle? Probably not, might be a matter of a few hundred miles of difference of wear.

But what is more crucial is going thicker and more shear resistant in the heat of summer, especially if your area regularly sees 95*F/35*C + consistently. The hotter oil gets, the thinner it becomes so it's ok and actually a good thing if it starts out a bit thicker than the base line recommended oil.

Two oils that I know of that perform particularly well in those conditions are HPL's Long life MATV 15w-50 oil and Mobil 1's 20w-50 V Twin synthetic oil (both motorcycle oils). Very robust, very shear and heat resistant oils. I've heard good things about some of Maxima's oil (I got the HPL at a double discount), but haven't tried it myself due to the high price. Motul 7100 (in the higher viscosity's) is pretty good as well, though I suspect the first two mentioned are probably more durable. Some of the Amsoil oils are excellent so I've heard, but I haven't personally used them. Renewable Lubricant's 15w-40 HD diesel oil is pretty good as well.

For cold weather, I like Mobil 1's Euro FS oils, either the 0w-40 or the 5w-40. I would be fine running most Euro (of different brands) spec'd oil in my scooter from mid fall to early spring period though, as long as you change it out within a thousand miles or so. I generally recommend changing your oil sooner than recommended, especially if like me, your scooter doesn't have an oil filter (the Buddy Kick 125).

With that said, using those two first oils, say you do a long summer trip of a thousand miles plus, you likely will be ok going a bit past the recommended change interval. Constant cruising on long miles vs many stop and go's are generally easier on oil. It's why there is the old adage of highway miles vs non highway miles in relation to cars-it's a real phenomena. (And when you look at super high mile cars, like a million miles or near same, they all have one thing in common-they were driven A LOT of highway miles within shorter periods of time).

Now time to get a little more controversial. This is not a recommendation per se, but I do do this myself. I put a little TC-W3 (ashless 2 stroke oil) in the gas of my scooter and motorcycle. No more than 300 parts of gas to 1 part oil (this is way, way below what is recommended for actual 2 stroke engines which generally runs from 32 through to 100 to 1.) Why? It provides upper cylinder and valve top lubrication that is missing since gasoline has little to no lubricity itself.

For example, I talked to a guy whose son raced 4 stroke dirt bikes under very demanding conditions. His son and the other racers were generally getting around 60 hours out of the engines before needing rebuilds. They decided to experiment with putting some 2 stroke oil in the gas (I think they went with around a 100 to 1 ratio. Don't do this if your scooter or bike has fuel injection and a catalytic converter, you have to use less oil-no more than around a 300 to 1 ratio.)

They noticed a dramatic change in the longevity of the engine. Right before he stopped racing, they got 120 hours out of the engine and didn't need a rebuild at that point. That is an amazing difference. If you don't feel comfortable putting TC-W3 oil in your gas, then consider using a little of Redline's SI-1 fuel system cleaner as it has a bit of upper cylinder lubricant in it, and is generally very good for keeping that part of the engine clean.

This is not really all that radical and controversial in reality. Lake Speed Jr. who is a true expert in both oils and engines talks about the importance of having some lubricity in the gasoline for upper cylinder/valves and how this decreases wear over time. I've been doing this fairly regularly for awhile now, and I have not gummed or fouled up my spark plugs in either my scooter or motorcycle (if anything, when used in the right ratios it will tend to keep the engine cleaner as less carbon and sludge will stick to the metal surfaces). But it is important to not use any ole 2 stroke oil--it needs to specifically be an "ashless" rated 2 stroke oil like TC-W3.

More on keeping the engine clean: If you want to prolong the life of your scooter engine, besides excellent lubricity, you also need to keep it clean. I've mentioned Redline and/or a little TC-W3 for the fuel system. Even better (but more expensive) is BK-44G. Some of the Gumouts are decent, but Redline is my preferred product for the price to amount of cleaner ratio.

But what about the other parts of the engine where the oil flows? There are a few alternatives. Most of the HPL oils are inherently quite cleaning-they do this through blends of high quality Esters and AN's, mixed with other base stocks and excellent, balanced additive packages. They also specifically have an Engine Cleaner product. You can get in a 40 rated viscosity, (but it's not far from a 50). It is mixed at about a 20% ratio to the regular engine oil that you're using (so about 20% cleaner to about 80% regular oil).

(High ester content oils in general tend to be more cleaning in nature because of their polar and higher solvency nature, though not all esters have the same exact degree of being polar and higher solvency).

Conversely, you can do the following only when its consistently cool to colder out. Once in a while (in a scooter, probably not a good idea for a wet clutch motorcycle), you can run Valvoline's Restore and Protect in their highest viscosity (which in the US I believe is a 5w-30) for a shorter than average oil change interval. Say your scooter manufacturer recommends 1500 mile oil change intervals. With a really good oil, you should probably go around 1000 to 1250 (again, if you do really long trips, you probably could go higher). If you're running Valvoline's Restore and Protect 5w-30 during the mid fall through to early spring period, run it for 750 miles-just do it more often.

If you start the practice of cleaning out the engine earlier on in it's life, you'll have to do it less, and less often than if it is already dirty/gunked up.

(I've used V-R&P in my car, and the stuff is real and works. When my 200k+ mile car is idling now, I can't even tell it's on it is so quiet and smooth. It is really a noticeable difference). I would generally recommend the HPL Cleaner over Valvoline's Restore and Protect product for scooters, just because of the difference in viscosity and thus it is a more simple and year round solution.

I hope that at least some of you have found some of the above helpful. Some good resources for better understanding engine oils and lubricity are Bobistheoilguy forum, Lake Speed Jr's YT channel The Motor Oil Geek, and Lubrication Explained YT channel. Engineering Explained YT channel has a couple good videos on engine oils, but specific to cars.