Got me new bike 🙌 now what?
Hey all, I really appreciated everyone’s advice last week on the bike. I got a mix but everyone was helpful and supportive of the fact that this is pretty much the best I’m guna get on my budget and situation.
I’m really happy, I love it. The look is excatly the sort of thing I wanted and it’s starts first time every time on the key and “for fun coz I like it.” First time on the kick start too. I can’t ride it yet and all I’ve seen is the gentleman who sold me it show me it working. He drove it and put it through the gears up and down the road and demonstrated the brakes working etc. i had a look at what I could being moderately mechanical and very mechanical with mountain bikes I checks the things I knew I could. These were…..
*The feel of the levers brake and clutch. I can’t ride drive so I let it out on to the bite point etc without actually riding far to test the bite and feel. I did the same on the brakes, checked the pads and the feel.
*I checked the chain it looked clean tight and looked after.
*checked all lights and the tyres. Needs a front tyre soon if anyone can advise on a budget 90/90/17 seems like a less used size.
Sooooo, now I’m wondering what else I can do in the 2 weeks it will be saying my friends garage. I’m a painter originally so I’m all good with cosmetic stuff but I’m looking for ideas of things I could check and how to inspect them etc. I’m confident the guy wasn’t lying about changing the oil due to the fact why would he even bother he didn’t claim anything else on it or over inflate the quality was a quiet guy really. But he did say he did it right before so should I do it again? Any other ideas. Things I can check and clean without doing any damage or making my life harder. I’m going to treat the exhaust and paint it with the high temp exhaust paint to protect from rust in future. I have experience with suspension and stripping it etc but seems ok and has recently had seals fitted that can tell are new.
If you got this far thankyou for reading. I guess basically I just want any help or instructions on things I can do to up my percentage chances of me having a nice reliable ready to ride bike by the time I do the cbt in 2 weeks ish.