Time for some maintenance
September 22nd, 2009
As the title of this entry says, its time for a bit of maintenance. Im currently at 4000 miles in to ownership of the 1125r and whilst the bike is still looking new I want to give it the once over with some acf-50, a rag and a toothbrush. This little job is helped by the fact that the rear wheel is currently missing due to a tyre change. Thats another subject that i’ll come to in a moment.
I’ve mentioned the benifits of ACF-50 before in my blog so I wont harp on about what it does anymore. I do like to use it on my bikes because I don’t want to see the bolt heads and nuts going off. I prefer to keep it looking new What I do is give the bike a good spray over. I then leave it a while to let the spray work its wonder. Next step is to work the spray in to the cracks and Allen bolt heads with an old tooth brush. This really gets a good covering. Then, once soaked in I give the bike a good rub down with a rag to get the excess off. Not wanting to waste any of the ACF-50 I then use the same rag thats now soaked to give the brake line unions a good rub. This procedure really keeps the metal work looking at its best. Even the dreaded Buell exhaust still looks as new even though I only wash the bike down once a week at most. Maybe a couple of times a month…. Thats how good this stuff is.
Now on to the rear tyre swap. As you have probably guessed, 4000 miles out of a rear tyre on such a powerful machine is pretty good going. This obviously shows that I’m not the most aggressive rider in the world. A lot of these miles have been done on the motorway I must admit 
Mike at UBG is doing the honours for me. I’m sticking with the Pirelli Corsa 111’s that came with the bike. It’s been one of the most predictable tyres I have ever used in the wet and dry so for now I’m staying with them. I will look at other brands when the front needs a swap out. I expect to replace that in approx 3000 miles or so.
Its only been a few days since my visit to Blackbear and I have not actually confirmed for sure what they did to my bike but all of a sudden I’m now getting 50+mpg out of the bike. All I got for the 1st 4000 miles was 41mpg average. Lets hope this high mpg continues because fuel prices are on the up again in the UK.
Right then, enough waffle, time for dinner 