Maintenance and buying guides
Choosing a part often means first understanding what it does. These guides explain the essentials in a few minutes, and also say when the job is better left to a workshop.
Choosing brake pads
The pad is the cheapest part of the braking system and the one that decides everything. Three families of friction material exist, and the choice is made on use, not on price.
Chain care and adjustment
A badly tensioned chain wrecks a gearbox; a dry chain stretches within a few thousand kilometres. It is the most profitable maintenance on a motorcycle, and it takes fifteen minutes.
Keeping a battery alive through winter
Most motorcycle batteries do not die of old age but of three months standing still. The remedy costs the price of a tank of fuel and takes five minutes to set up.
These guides give general bearings. They do not replace your machine's workshop manual, which alone gives exact torque figures and wear limits.