Worst/most hated part of your bike to work on.

Void Main
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Void Main 9/28/2011 6:40pm
9/28/2011 6:40pm
Changing the bulb in my blinkers is a pain in the ass.
Yamahauler152 9/28/2011 6:41pm
9/28/2011 6:41pm
Anything and everything after a mud race, including cleaning the bike and all my gear.
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Brownie 9/28/2011 6:43pm
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Yamahauler152 wrote:
Anything and everything after a mud race, including cleaning the bike and all my gear.
cleaning all the wet sand out of everything is worse, it gets fucking every where
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CR250Rider 9/28/2011 6:52pm
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1) rear shock linkage !!!!
2) airbox

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EvanR127 9/28/2011 7:03pm
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just tires everything else is easy.
Yamahauler152 9/28/2011 7:10pm
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Yamahauler152 wrote:
Anything and everything after a mud race, including cleaning the bike and all my gear.
Brownie wrote:
cleaning all the wet sand out of everything is worse, it gets fucking every where
True. I don't get much sand riding in, so I'll think of that next time I'm cleaning all the damn mud off my bike and gear.
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Gukamonster 9/28/2011 7:10pm
9/28/2011 7:10pm
How about a full bottom end engine rebuild. Rod bearing, main bearing, crank etc. If the time comes where you gotta split the cases and go to work, you will be wishing you were changing tires. Electrical gremlins are also not fun.
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chillrich 9/28/2011 7:11pm
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I started using NoToil this year and one of these on delicate

4 air filters, set timer for 15 min, drain water onto driveway, fill with water and rinse, set timer for 15 mins, squeeze out and let dry overnight. Oil them up and I'm good for 7-10 days.
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fencepost 9/28/2011 7:20pm
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I actually like changing tires. Good challenge. I hate cleaning my bike.
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mattbmx63 9/28/2011 7:29pm
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Linkage, sucks doing!

Tires are easy when you know how to do it. Easy under 5 minutes.
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Outsider 9/28/2011 7:32pm
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Anyone remember that old video with Jimmy Button? Shows him with a huge bag of clean air filters, saying that's the best part about being a factory rider... hated him after that! Angry Smile
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alohamx 9/28/2011 7:32pm
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Yamahauler152 wrote:
Anything and everything after a mud race, including cleaning the bike and all my gear.
Brownie wrote:
cleaning all the wet sand out of everything is worse, it gets fucking every where
cleaning cinder out of everything is THE WORST. stupid little glassy rocks get everywhere and fuck shit up!
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NeKawBoy wrote:
Cleaning air filters. Changing tires on my kids' 110's. Oil change day is a pain in the ass...6 bikes and only 2 are the same...and they...
Cleaning air filters.
Changing tires on my kids' 110's.
Oil change day is a pain in the ass...6 bikes and only 2 are the same...and they all have skid plates.
would you include tubes on those small rims as well...such a pain on 12 inch rear tire..Kawi didnt help by using a cheaper rim with so many spokes.
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newmann 9/28/2011 7:33pm
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Tires are a given, they always suck.

I thought changing the spark plug on my 2001 YZ250F (steel frame) was a pain until I had to change the plug on my kids 2004 CRF250 and had to remove the damned fuel tank to get to it.

Working on the carb on the 4 stroke was a pain as well, so the 2 stroke would have to be much easier.....unless it's a 2 stroke in an aluminum frame. Damn alloy frames are so bulky(maybe the YZ125 and 250 get some slack here) that it makes any routine maint. a pain. Love me a KTM144/150 about this time.

Linkage? Ninety percent of the people riding bikes don't know what in the heck linkage does in the first place and the remaining ten percent don't know how or when to service it so why does it even exist????
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zookie 9/28/2011 8:07pm
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Tires are easy once you learn some sort of decent method of doing them. I start with tube slight inflated in tire...put tire/tube combo under rimlock and work one half of tire and tube onto rim. Spin tire and tube to get valvestem into proper location, then start putting second half of tire on at the valvestem. Put the valvestem into the hole (should pop right in if tube is inflated just enough and it was aimed correctly) with nut one thread on. Put rest of tire on. Small bites with iron, make sure it is lubed well and make sure top and bottom half are pinched together into the drop center.

Air filters are easy if you use no toil. Bucket of hot water and oxyclean and they come out spotless with no smell, no problem, no working, no scrubbing. Rinse clean, dry, reoil with no toil.
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neysbo 9/28/2011 8:16pm
9/28/2011 8:16pm
my hate list is

circlips on the piston

swing arm and linkage bearings

replacing a crank

setting the timing on kx250f
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wow123 9/28/2011 8:42pm
9/28/2011 8:42pm
Linkages

and

Not being fast enough that someone else get paid to do it all.
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redrider400 9/28/2011 8:46pm
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I got a 2010 YZ450f so I would say the air filter for sure, lol.

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tbanks 9/28/2011 8:48pm
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Radiators or tires
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Deetsmx 9/28/2011 8:51pm
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Just got done changing the tire, I'm pretty good at it but I still hate it, especially when it's winter time. I haven't had to clean an air filter pretty much ever, the benefits of having a family owned air filter business Wink
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Wiley 9/28/2011 9:16pm
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Valve Adjustments
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MOTODAD422 9/28/2011 9:54pm
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Washing the bike after mud race.My neighbors think i am nuts cleaning the bike so meticulously, they say its only gonna get dirty again. Also hate circlips on 4 strokes.
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kripple428 9/29/2011 1:27am
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yanks_178 wrote:
Air Box is the worst!!!! Anything to do with it I hate. My kids are on 85's and there is no room to work on those...
Air Box is the worst!!!! Anything to do with it I hate. My kids are on 85's and there is no room to work on those things. I struggle changing the air filter and jetting is even worst!!

Tires are not too bad.. I have some good tire irons and they go quickly when I don't pinch the tube!!
put them in the washing machine on the soak cycle on hot I wash 6-10 filters at a time while im wishing my bike then all I have to do is spray on some filter on and throw one in and I don't have to clean anymore for a while just make sure when your done to spray some break cleaner on a paper towel or rag and wipe out the inside of the washing machine its 10xs easier
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kripple428 9/29/2011 1:31am
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but the thing I hate the most is trying to get the damn inserts in your new plastic I dont know why the plastic companies cant put them in before they send it to you
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robkinuk 9/29/2011 1:38am
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I bet all of the posters in this thread are 25+ years old????
Seem's a lot of the @home schooled amateur fast kids of today don't even know what an air filter is!, let alone know how to change one!Angry
How can they have empathy with their bikes, ie knowing how to nurse one home to a moto finish when they don't even know how they work?
If your going to home school your kids, chase the pro ride dream, then at least make sure they know how to work on their bike's!Wink
Their parents and paid mechanic aren't going to always be around!
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kripple428 9/29/2011 1:55am
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robkinuk wrote:
I bet all of the posters in this thread are 25+ years old???? Seem's a lot of the @home schooled amateur fast kids of today don't...
I bet all of the posters in this thread are 25+ years old????
Seem's a lot of the @home schooled amateur fast kids of today don't even know what an air filter is!, let alone know how to change one!Angry
How can they have empathy with their bikes, ie knowing how to nurse one home to a moto finish when they don't even know how they work?
If your going to home school your kids, chase the pro ride dream, then at least make sure they know how to work on their bike's!Wink
Their parents and paid mechanic aren't going to always be around!
hey now I'm 18 and I've been doing filters and all the basic stuff since I was like 9
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Sunhouse 9/29/2011 2:41am
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Swingarm and linkage bearings are a bitch. And cutting the chain to the right length.
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Berni 9/29/2011 2:52am
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Sunhouse wrote:
Swingarm and linkage bearings are a bitch. And cutting the chain to the right length.
I was late, I was about to say cutting the chain, specially when you don't have the specific tool and you do it old school. Changing linkage or swingarm bearings is a pain in the ass too. An when you are loosening any screw and you find it is seizured.....
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Little Dave 9/29/2011 3:39am
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Worst/most hated part of your bike to work on is without doubt tensioning those little silver things that help keep you wheel round! Damn spokes are so tedious and frustrating - specially when they sieze and round off, using the old school spoke spanner that comes with the bike.

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