{"id":81917,"date":"2008-06-29T12:58:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T03:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=81917"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:19","slug":"rain-or-shine-oil-cooled-maintenance-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20080629\/uncategorized\/rain-or-shine-oil-cooled-maintenance-campaign","title":{"rendered":"Rain or Shine: Oil-Cooled Maintenance Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-1968177063\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1475279_55675859_4.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1475279_55675859_5.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1475279_55675859_6.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Thank you so much for coming all the way from Kyoto.<br \/>\nThe bike has 40,000 kilometers on it and has been used for touring, or so I&#8217;m told.<br \/>\nThe machine had a somewhat tired appearance.<br \/>\nWe performed three types of maintenance.<br \/>\nThe stem bearing was stuck in the center position. When we took it apart, sure enough, the grease was depleted and it was over-tightened.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s what caused the problem.<br \/>\nAfter replacement and adjustment, the handling will be much more responsive.<br \/>\nFork oil change\u2014we&#8217;re using ASH fork oil.<br \/>\nThis oil has a really nice quality where its performance characteristics change very little over time \u2605<br \/>\nNext we performed the Deco-mainte, but the bike was so dirty that the work was quite challenging.<br \/>\nWe went through quite a lot of shop towels, but it came out really clean.<br \/>\nWe cleaned all the sliding parts and reassembled everything, so now the levers and pedals move back and forth smoothly and snappily.<br \/>\nNext came valve clearance adjustment. The engine interior is extremely clean with no signs of seizure!<br \/>\nThe cam chain has no slack\u2014everything looks good!<br \/>\nThe valve timing was a bit off, but we got it dialed in perfectly.<br \/>\nThe damper was severely worn\u2014it was rattling badly. It wasn&#8217;t doing its job anymore.<br \/>\nWow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Thank you so much for coming all the way from Kyoto. The bike has 40,000 kilometers on it and has been used for touring, or so I&#8217;m told. The machine had a somewhat tired appearance. We performed three types of maintenance. The stem bearing was stuck in the center position. When we took it apart, sure enough, the grease was depleted and it was over-tightened. That&#8217;s what caused the problem. After replacement and adjustment, the handling will be much more responsive. Fork oil change\u2014we&#8217;re using ASH fork oil. This oil has a really nice quality where its performance characteristics change very little over time \u2605 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1919,55],"class_list":["post-81917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-oil-cooled-maintenance","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81917","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=81917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}