justin_o_guy2 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08:Why did I buy them at about 8,000 miles? Cuz I dont like waiting on stuff when I need it now, so I keep spares. Just saying..
What? You mean you PLAN in ADVANCE?!
Actually I do too, so little by little the MC home repair kit is getting bigger, with more items in stock at hand as I go along.
A big help has been the ability to read on the forum what is likely to happen at certain stages, and be able to check and prepare for it, like the cam chain for example. I'm not going to wait until the bike is whanging like a deisel freight train at 14K miles before I open that puppy up.
In fact, one day I was reading here about the stock brake pads not lasting worth squat and hardly even a day later the really noisy front brake squeek started. Mind you, I had NO ISSUE until that new noise appeared. No major squeals, no pulling, no grinding, no problems stopping.
But, based on what I read here about how fast the original pads wear out, I ordered new pads that night when I got home, and changed them out as soon as I could.
Knowing in advance HOW to do that, with photos, and hearing about the problem from first-hand experience of other Suzi owners probably saved my brakes from freezing up entirely, and surely prevented an accident; which in turn is why I showed photos of how bad mine were.
Getting a bike second-hand means you just don't know for sure what the previous owner did (or did not) do. And by golly if you got 2,500 on your bike, you 'might' want to pop the cylinder off soon for a look-see!
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