Recently I had my bike (2005 ZX6R) serviced (oil change, new filter, oiled chain, etc, etc etc.) and a couple weeks afterwards some nice weather came around so I took my bike out on some nice empty backroads. After blasting around the county I got back home and noticed that oil was smearing around the side of my engine cover and when I peered behind the fairings, more oil seemed to the splattered against the left side of the engine.

I've uploaded some pictures of the oil (my bike takes synthetic oil):

http://www.filestance.com/0226081123.jpg

http://www.filestance.com/0226081124a.jpg

http://www.filestance.com/0226081124.jpg

After seeing the oil smeared on my bike, I remembered that at one point during my blast through the backroads I stopped at a stop sign and a bit of oil smoke emerged from the front of my bike. It stopped after about two seconds, and I figured it must have been caused by some brief rain that I had ridden through. However, now that I'm paying more attention to the bike, I can sometimes notice a faint burning oil kind of smell when I ride.

Any idea what's going on with my bike? Should I immediately stop riding the bike and have a mechanic take a look at it? Did the shop overfill my oil? Any insight would be much appreciated

I don't want to damage my bike :-/

 

can't see to much in the pics but mabey your filter is to loose or mabey stater cover is leaking. if you redo your cover, put yamabond 4 it will seal it up good. just my guess.