Yea I know, another maintenance post. Sorry. It’s another rainy weekend keeping us garaged again. I figured this would provide a chance to do a video on changing the fork oil on a Street Glide. I kinda browsed around the net looking for a video on this subject and never found one on performing this process on a Street Glide. Well, I did discover one video but they wanted you to pay for access which I am simply not going…
The prospect of riding quickly faded Friday afternoon when the chance for thunderstorms on Saturday went to 90%. And as predicted the rain rolled in about noon leaving us to make plans to do something else. Rainy days do make for good maintenance though. It keeps you productive on a non riding day and yet still involved in bike related activities. With the knowledge that your not going to be riding for the weekend due to weather you will also…
I’ve been trying to break up the posts between riding related stuff and maintenance to keep a bit of a balance for those that don’t perform maintenance. It will taper off as riding season comes more into play and we begin taking more trips and going to events. For now though, its maintenance time! This is the perfect time to get those bikes ready for some hard riding this spring, summer, and fall! This content has been moved to Ride it…
With spring approaching and bringing the possibility of increased riding its a good time to begin maintenance procedures on your bike. Hench the reason for all of the recent maintenance posts. We did do videos this time so some of them are repeats with a better source of media. If you haven’t performed self maintenance in the past I would encourage you to try. You’ll save a lot of money and learn more about your bike in the process. This…
As promised, the how to video on changing the oil on your Softail Deluxe! With the icy weather and frozen streets were dealing with again riding is pretty much out of the question. Although I did see a guy riding this past week on the freeway while it was snowing and ice patches on the road. That’s hard core if hes riding for any length of time. Not my thing though. Wind chill temps can tear right through you and…
I’ve done this post in the past but it was done over the course of 2 weeks and it only had pictures. This time we made a video of the process which is much better and easier to follow. I had wanted to do something like this before but just never got around to it. We made 2 videos, one for my Street Glide and the other for Margaret’s Softail Deluxe which I will post in a couple weeks. Since…
For a long time, dunno how long, I just know its been a long time, I’ve wanted to get hard lowers for my Street Glide. I looked at leather lowers but just couldn’t get in to them. They just didn’t give a look I would be happy with. I have seen a few Street Glides with hard lowers and thought it looked awesome. Not only that but with my work commute I thought they might help with the cold on…
On this post I want to explore just how far can or should someone go with maintenance at home. The answers will vary greatly depending on numerous factors. Obviously riding a motorcycle doesn’t mean you can maintain or repair one though. When I rode motocross and competed in Europe I was given a highly modified bike from a place out of California named R&D Motors. This 80cc bike I received had a custom exhaust, bored cylinder, front forks from a…
This is going to be a short post and its one of those stand bye posts that Ill pull from the closet when life is busy. We started a new construction project at work so for the next 6 weeks I probably wont get a weekend off to write about much. This content has been moved to Ride it Wrench it.
This weekend was super busy for both of us. Again, we had plans to do some work around the house but all of that changed when Margaret got her new grips. I received the call from Fort Worth Harley that her parts had arrived earlier in the week so we went to get them Friday evening. When we got to the dealership they also had the saddlebag guards I had ordered. I started whining a bit to Margaret that Saturday…