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 TighteningUnit Setting
The unit setting in the meter instrument
can be changed according to local
regulations. Make sure the unit setting
is correctly displayed before riding.
A. Speedometer
B. Meter Display Units
NOTE
Do not operate the motorcycle with
wrong unit (mph or km/h) of the
speedometer.
To change ...
Clutch
Due to friction plate wear and clutch
cable stretch over a long period of use,
the clutch operation should be checked
each day before riding the motorcycle,
and must be adjusted in accordance
with the Periodic Maintenance Chart.
Inspection
Check that the clutch lever operates
properly an ...
Tire Air Pressure Inspection
Remove the air valve cap.
Measure the tire air pressure with an air pressure gauge
[A] when the tires are cold (that is, when the motorcycle
has not been ridden more than a mile during the past 3
hours).
Install the air valve cap.
Adjust the tire air pressure according to the specifi ...