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Across 250 in wonderful condition, full of love and care. Deco-mainte service along with various other work requested. Starting with a thorough chain cleanin...

Basically, I think there are a lot of used bikes out there. People complain about the repair history of those used bikes being shoddy, and they gripe about t...

It's been a while... ZRX1100. Not exactly neglected, but more like, what to do with it? The fairing paint and maintenance are done, but this year's heat caus...

This is the process of disassembly, cleaning, and reassembly. Nothing special or out of the ordinary here. An ultrasonic cleaner that saves a lot of labor. I...

The RVF400 seems to have the fewest parts among the V-twins... but it's still a lot of work compared to a straight-four. Starting next time, V-twins will hav...

Parallel engines really are nice—they're so much easier to work on… V-engines take nearly twice the effort… (too many linkages!) Time to disassemble. Being o...

The GSX750 series—to be honest, my experience with it is pretty much zero. Plus there are so many variants that I don't really understand them all… That said...

The shift pedal circlip was missing. Lucky? Both sides have pretty rough construction. Serviceability leaves something to be desired. There's a real passion ...

I trust only the tools. You can verify it well enough with a meter between the pivot and axle center. (Since the meter has nice round numbers, I always measu...

The GPZ900R somehow feels nostalgic. I've noticed it's been on a declining trend lately, yet the sales numbers were never small to begin with. So this time w...