If your motorcycle has leather accessories, special care must be taken.
Use a leather cleaner/treatment to clean and care for leather accessories.
Washing leather parts with detergent and water will damage them, shortening their life.
Vinyl parts should be washed with the rest of themotorcycle, then treated with a vinyl treatment.
The sidewalls of tires and other rubber components should be treated with a rubber protectant to help prolong their useful life.
| WARNING Rubber protectants can be slippery and, if used on the tread area, cause loss of traction resulting in accident causing injury or death. Do not apply rubber protectant to any tread area. |
Chrome and Aluminum
Bolt and Nut TighteningSteering Play Adjustment
Remove:
Steering Stem Head with Handlebars (see Handlebar
Removal in the Steering chapter).
Bend the claws [A] of the claw washer [B] straighten.
Remove:
Steering Stem Locknut [C]
Claw Washer
Adjust the steering using the steering stem nut wrench
[A].
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Front Wheel Removal
Remove:
Front Caliper Mounting Bolts [A] (Both Sides)
Front Caliper [B] (Both Sides)
Loosen:
Front Axle Clamp Bolts [A] (Right Side)
Front Axle [B]
Remove the lower fairings (see Lower Fairing Removal in
the Frame chapter).
Raise the front wheel off the ground.
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Lower Fairing Removal
Remove the quick rivets [A].
Remove:
Quick Rivets [A]
Bolts [B]
Pull up the core by the flat-head screwdriver (–), and then
remove the quick rivet.
Clear the hook portions on the upper edges [C] from the
slots, and remove the left lower fairing [D].
While pulling down ...