Routine Weekly Maintenance?

[hurstshifter]

Hey Everyone,

I was just wondering what everyone does to their ride for weekly or even daily maintenance. Having just picked up a new bike I want to make sure I'm taking extra special care of her. Generally, I will check my tire pressure about once a week (sometimes every 3-5 days, depends on how much I ride). Also I'll grease the chain about once a month. Anything else I should be doing? Or maybe doing more often?


In Before "Fill it up with gas"

[mycirus]

How many miles a week will you be riding? That will dictate your chain maintenance. If you are doing 300 a week, once a month chain lube wont cut it.

[hurstshifter]

How many miles a week will you be riding? That will dictate your chain maintenance. If you are doing 300 a week, once a month chain lube wont cut it.

I'd like to be riding a lot more this year. I probably only did about 100 a week average last year. My riding will likely be more like 300 a week this year. How often should I lubricate the chain with that much use?

[schleppy]

Lube the chain every few hundred miles, check tire pressures regularly, make sure bolts aren't loose, give the chain a pull to make sure it's not stretching out too much. Simple stuff.

[noxin]

Look at the belt drive conversion I just did on one of the bike and smile?

[stoinkythepig]

I lube the chain when the rollers get shiny. If they are dull, there's still lube on them.

[KillBill]

Chain
Tire Pressure
Chain Tension


*I ride about 500 miles/week

[Jim]

i did about 300 miles a week last season.

• clean & lube the chain every 300 miles
• check the tire pressure
• clean the chrome (if you have a gixxer)

every season i make sure to drop the bike, so i learn how to replace broken parts & body panels

[KillBill]

Whoa! It's Jim! haha

[noxin]

• clean the chrome (if you have a gixxer)

Doesn't it take a week just to clean the chrome?

[Jim]

Doesn't it take a week just to clean the chrome?

not on my bike. I use CEO as a cleaning rag. He's little enough to get those hard to reach spots

[SVRACER01]

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I used to lube the chain every friday when i got home from school. of course i had a garage then. i would pull in, leave it running and throw it on the rear stand, click it onto 1st and hit it with Bel-Ray super clean, and maybe an adjustment if ot needed it (usually every other week or 2).
its amazing how long your chain will last if youre relivious about it.

[scottieducati]

Do not, under any circumstances, forget to change your blinker fluid regularly.

[WordTooYoMamma]

every season i make sure to drop the bike, so i learn how to replace broken parts & body panels

I was looking for a way of justifying dropping my bike... something tells me the "I hit a patch of ice" won't cut it in the months to come

THANKS!

[DuncanMoto]

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i would pull in, leave it running and throw it on the rear stand, click it onto 1st and hit it with Bel-Ray super clean, ......

Let's see a show of fingers, who else thinks that's a bad idea.

[Jim]

Let's see a show of fingers, who else thinks that's a bad idea.

i'd agree, if it wasnt Oxx