With the end of the financial year upon us and two days of holiday left to take, I've managed to swing myself a short week and a longer weekend.
My original plan was to book a test ride on the new Fireblade, but when I called my local dealer yesterday, it was booked out until next week. So, with a perfectly good FireBlade still in my garage, I took the opportunity to spend a little time doing a few little cleaning jobs.
After each winter I've found it good practice to get the brake calipers off the bike and give them a decent clean. While I was there, I took all fairings off and gave the bike a decent scrub down, which included cleaning out the gunk from the sprockets.
My original plan was to book a test ride on the new Fireblade, but when I called my local dealer yesterday, it was booked out until next week. So, with a perfectly good FireBlade still in my garage, I took the opportunity to spend a little time doing a few little cleaning jobs.
After each winter I've found it good practice to get the brake calipers off the bike and give them a decent clean. While I was there, I took all fairings off and gave the bike a decent scrub down, which included cleaning out the gunk from the sprockets.
By no means the most glamorous of jobs but its one that needs to be done. I didn't go the whole hog and take the wheels off and at some point I'll need to take the bike apart and really give it a deep clean. When I do that, I'll probably finally get around the replacing my tail fairing which has been cracked since the bike feel over in the van last year.
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