{"id":78158,"date":"2010-01-28T00:15:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=78158"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:22","slug":"bandit-1200-deco-mainte-chapter-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20100128\/everyday-events\/bandit-1200-deco-mainte-chapter-6","title":{"rendered":"Bandit 1200 Deco-mainte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60858101_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60858101_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60858101_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60858101_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60858101_4.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>So here we have a Bandit 1200 K5 that came in for the Flat-Rate Motorcycle Inspection.<br \/>\nThank you for requesting Deco-mainte along with the inspection maintenance \u2606<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve already started on it, so here&#8217;s the rest of the maintenance.<br \/>\nWe remove the wheels front and rear to check them.<br \/>\nThe front doesn&#8217;t have an oil seal installed\u2014the bearings are sealed directly\u2014so we check their operation and<br \/>\nadjust them to see how they move.<br \/>\nWe clean the axle and apply a thin, even coat of grease.<br \/>\nSometimes grease gets caked on thick, but it just ends up squishing out anyway.<br \/>\nThe rear has oil seals, so we clean the lip area and pack it with grease.<br \/>\nThe grooves in the spacer show how much it&#8217;s spinning&#8230;<br \/>\nEven with the caliper off and the axle tightened properly, it just keeps spinning and spinning.<br \/>\nFeels great!<br \/>\nWoohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;So here we have a Bandit 1200 K5 that came in for the Flat-Rate Motorcycle Inspection. Thank you for requesting Deco-mainte along with the inspection maintenance \u2606 We&#8217;ve already started on it, so here&#8217;s the rest of the maintenance. We remove the wheels front and rear to check them. The front doesn&#8217;t have an oil seal installed\u2014the bearings are sealed directly\u2014so we check their operation and adjust them to see how they move. We clean the axle and apply a thin, even coat of grease. Sometimes grease gets caked on thick, but it just ends up squishing out anyway. The rear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[1922,55],"class_list":["post-78158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-bandit","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}