{"id":78190,"date":"2010-01-25T19:53:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T10:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=78190"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:22","slug":"bandit-1200-deco-mainte-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20100125\/everyday-events\/bandit-1200-deco-mainte-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_60848532_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60848532_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60848532_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60848532_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60848532_4.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> The Flat-Rate Motorcycle Inspection is done and dusted,<br \/>\nand we&#8217;d love to dive into the work\u2014<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s end of month, so we&#8217;re dealing with estimates, invoices, and wallet checks. Ugh.<br \/>\nThe bike&#8217;s being picked up too, so things are coming and going.<br \/>\nFirst up: levers and pedals.<br \/>\nWe disassemble the levers and apply a thin, even coat of grease.<br \/>\nCheck the pins and other parts for wear too.<br \/>\nWe disassemble the pedals the same way,<br \/>\nbut bikes that have never been taken apart before are a nightmare\u2014they&#8217;re caked with thread-locking compound.<br \/>\nWe lubricate those with grease too.<br \/>\nWe remove the throttle sleeve, polish the handlebar, and apply oil (a certain chain oil) to it.<br \/>\nGrease doesn&#8217;t work well for smooth operation. \u2605<br \/>\nWe remove the side stand, clean it up, and reinstall it.<br \/>\nGrease goes on the side stand pin (bolt), the mounting surface, and the spring pins (two spots).<br \/>\nThat satisfying click when the stand pops out\u2014feels great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Flat-Rate Motorcycle Inspection is done and dusted, and we&#8217;d love to dive into the work\u2014 but it&#8217;s end of month, so we&#8217;re dealing with estimates, invoices, and wallet checks. Ugh. The bike&#8217;s being picked up too, so things are coming and going. First up: levers and pedals. We disassemble the levers and apply a thin, even coat of grease. Check the pins and other parts for wear too. We disassemble the pedals the same way, but bikes that have never been taken apart before are a nightmare\u2014they&#8217;re caked with thread-locking compound. We lubricate those with grease too. We remove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78189,"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-78190","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\/78190","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=78190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}