thecollegekid

Just purchased a bike this winter and wanted to give it a tune up for the summer. It's my first bike and has around 20k miles on it. It has a new clutch and starts and runs fine but I'm not sure what kind of maintenance schedule was used to keep it running. Just wanted to know what I should be looking for in the way of a mechanical tune this summer.

skr00zloose

oil/filter change, plugs, air filter, sync carbs/throttle bodies, lube pivot points, lube cables, adjust/lube chain, check brakes, check tires, maybe a valve adjustment depending on the mileage.

thecollegekid

Sounds reasonable enough. Is this something I should try to undertake myself or should I see a mechanic to do any of this?

seanazzy

how hard is the valve adjustment...i've spent the $400 or whatever it is for that on a tuneup one year and that's just so much money dude?

Yamamaha

make sure to replace the winter air in the tires with summer air.

professorman

haha..... Replace the gas if it was not drained before the winter.

BentValve

Sta-bil.

skr00zloose

damn dude, i charge $100.

as far as how hard, that depends on the bike. there's a couple different valve arangements. shim under bucket, shim over bucket, threaded, and the P.I.T.A. desmo's. threaded is by far the easiest, shim/bucket requires you to take the cams out to do any adjustments, and desmo just has twice as many friggin adjustments.

seanazzy

well, i guess it came w/ the 14000 tune up and that's really all i need and they wanted i think 4 hours labor at $80/hr plus parts so...yeah, they suck