Unfortunately,
I packed mine up 'til next year, temps only going up to 5°C today, had snow flurries yesterday, 15°C tomorrow with heavy rain, and cold temps all next week.
Parked it on the bike lift, hooked up the tender,
changed the oil and
brake fluid last week.
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Just noticed
this...
Here's a word of 'care' you might want to consider - while it's a great idea to change your
oil at the end of a the season, so the engine/trans is left standing with clean, non-contaminated, non-corrosive oil in it; if you change (flush) your brake fluid
BEFORE winter, by the time the warmer, less humid, weather comes around and you want to ride again, that 'fresh' brake fluid will have absorbed moisture from the air over winter and it (possibly? probably??) won't be quite so 'fresh' as you expect any longer - in fact, if the winter has been 'damp' rather than freezing, it could be just as bad/moisture contaminated as the old fluid you flushed out at the end of your riding last Autumn!!
I was always taught to change the
OIL before putting a vehicle up for a while; but if you weren't having brake problems that might be caused by contaminated fluid before laying the vehicle up for a while, to leave the brake fluid until you're ready to start using the vehicle again; and then flush the brake system with fresh brake fluid from a newly opened container.
Or, if you can't/don't want to do that, then at the very least, check the brake fluid for moisture content as part of your '
pre-first ride/drive' checks (most auto parts/tools places have fairly cheap & easy to use probes to measure brake fluid moisture content), and if indicated, to change the brake fluid then, at the start of the new season, no matter how recently you changed it before, so that you
KNOW you're starting the new season with brake fluid that doesn't already have too much moisture/water absorbed into it.
There again, I do know a few people who make it a practice to flush their vehicle's brake fluid
BEFORE laying their them up for a while, and then flush it
again BEFORE starting to use the vehicle at the start of next season, but I feel that's maybe juuust a little bit like '
over-kill'!!
Food for thought, possibly? Maybe?!?
The seat is very firm. I am hoping for an improved. I was “surviving “ with the stock seat and the Airhawk
