Posts by Steve
Wheel Bearings
Wheel Bearing Maintenance One thing that is often forgotten until they are to worn to repair is the wheel bearings. At least once a year and always on a new bike I look at and add grease to the wheel bearings. You will be surprised how little grease is in the bearings from the factory.…
Read MoreAnnual Maintenance 2018
Annual Maintenance 2018 Cold temps and snow on the ground signals its time for annual maintenance on the Trials machine. Your bike has served you well over the past season, now it is time to give it the service it needs. I recently went into a carburetor on a Sherco 300 ST. When ever i remove…
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Air Cleaner Maintenance Bike Maintenance; Air filters and spark arrestors. I did some maintenance on a couple of bike that had air filters so dirty you could not tell what color the filter foam was, let alone see the foam of the filter. Both bikes had about a 1/4″ of dirt, crime and I think…
Read MoreLubrication
Lubrication Any time you have two dissimilar metals in contact, you run the risk of creating a ‘battery’ and the oxidation that can occur could lead to problems As anyone that has worked on a motorcycles has found, they are assembled with many kinds of dissimilar metals, steel bolts holding aluminum parts and clamps, i.e.,…
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