kinda a random question

[psychochild28]

Ok so now that the Rebel is back in my garage and I have my forks coming this week. I need to start thinking about what i'm doing for winterizing. I know about the fuel stabilizer, changing the oil, making sure the tires are off the concrete. But I want to take the entire bike apart, w/ my dad's help and clean it and make sure I don't need to fix anything else.

But what I want to know is what do I do with the chain? Drewpy told me to just lube it and leave it alone. My dad thinks i should take it off, clean it and then lube it. What's better or is there something else i should do? And I guess is there anything else i've forgtten.


And i have no manual to read becasue it didn't come with one so I'm really at a loss. There's no close honda shop for me to take it to and have them do it so i'm kinda stuck. :help:

[BZ]

not a question a ryder from fla. can answer. sub tropic means all year ryding.:smile3:

[psychochild28]

haha yea yea must be nice....it's already snowed 4 times up here :plow: but in between it's been 60+ wtf??? :****: <----this is what i think of ohio weather :haha:

[BZ]

key werds, "used to live in WA."

[BZ]

true it is but do you do that now in fla???

[BZ]

mmmmmhmmmmmmm:pig_ball:

[Konich]

Ok so now that the Rebel is back in my garage and I have my forks coming this week. I need to start thinking about what i'm doing for winterizing. I know about the fuel stabilizer, changing the oil, making sure the tires are off the concrete. But I want to take the entire bike apart, w/ my dad's help and clean it and make sure I don't need to fix anything else.

But what I want to know is what do I do with the chain? Drewpy told me to just lube it and leave it alone. My dad thinks i should take it off, clean it and then lube it. What's better or is there something else i should do? And I guess is there anything else i've forgtten.


And i have no manual to read becasue it didn't come with one so I'm really at a loss. There's no close honda shop for me to take it to and have them do it so i'm kinda stuck. :help:

At the end of the year I clean my chain with kerosene (it won't damage the o-rings) really well. Get a bruch and begin to scrub away. After you have it all cleaned up wipe it down with a rag to get excess residue off. Then hit it with a little Honda HP-4 chain lube and your set!

[Konich]

Yes I do all of that, but her question was about her maintaining her chain. Not adding stabil, oil, stands, etc. re-read her post Einstien.

[R1Gurl]

I've done all the other stuff. I don't usually change my oil at the end of the season, i do change it and the brake fluid at the beginning though.

Yanno, I've never thought of using kerosene. My brother actually has a friend that could take my chain and put it in a machine wash to get all the gunk off it, you think that would hurt it?

[Konich]

High pressure could ruin your o-rings. Kerosene will disolve all the grim away so there's no need to use high pressure to clean it off. Just lube it up afterwords and your good.

[Pippi]

I don't winterize her other than stands and her blankie cover - the benefit of her hibernating in a temp controlled (60 deg) shop :)

[R1Gurl]

That's good to know.

[Konich]

I don't do to much winterizing. I don't even pull the battery. I just start the bikes up every weekend. I do fill the gas tank, add stabil, and put them on stands but thats about it. That way when there's a nice day, I drop the stands and get some riding in!

[psychochild28]

Thanks guys ths helps alot :drinks::clapping:

[whatwhat]

if you would of asked me, i have a grunge buster brush and chain cleaner, along with chain lube....



kerosene can screw with the o-rings on a modern chain fyi (actually i am second guessing this, looking it up now, so dont quote me)

[psychochild28]

if you would of asked me, i have a grunge buster brush and chain cleaner, along with chain lube....



kerosene can screw with the o-rings on a modern chain fyi (actually i am second guessing this, looking it up now, so dont quote me)


would have asked you but wasn't sure if you knew where ur stuff was :tease:

[whatwhat]

on shelf with the rest of my life, tossed together in a hurry before i left, is there any other way?

[psychochild28]

you mean the shelf that had the cover on it??? cause that's a mess

[Cutty72]

I think i figured out who whatwhat is :smile3:

[whatwhat]

the one and only

[Cutty72]

the one and only

Figured from you Av... but didn't want to call it out quite yet...

[psychochild28]

Figured from you Av... but didn't want to call it out quite yet...

take it you didn't see his newb thread :haha:

[Cutty72]

take it you didn't see his newb thread :haha:

hmmm, seems i missed it... but it is now MINE to whore in!

['busadude09]

ok my welding teacher wants to get ride of his '94 kawasaki ninja 250cc. and i want to by it so it can be my first bike cause i want to customize them but my mom said no and im 17 wat do i do.

[Cutty72]

ok my welding teacher wants to get ride of his '94 kawasaki ninja 250cc. and i want to by it so it can be my first bike cause i want to customize them but my mom said no and im 17 wat do i do.

wait till you are 18...

sorry man, but ya gotta keep on the in's with the rents...

[Cutty72]

good choice in bike tho... what kind of customizing are you thinking???

['busadude09]

good choice in bike tho... what kind of customizing are you thinking???

i want to own my own custom shop when i get out of highschool. i want to redo the whole bike

[rudeixo]

In California the way we winterize our bikes is to put on some long underwear and wear our liners in our jackets. Best winterizing there is!

Rude1:protest:

[Trackstar1.com]

I just bought the race bike a nice space heater for Christmas.

[v2throb]

All good advice, the only other thing I would ad is to put duct tape over the exhaust to keep mice from nesting in there. I put a small strip on my speedometer to remind me to remove it in the spring.