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Old 10-29-2009, 11:00 PM   #31
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Found it! Thanks!
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Old 10-29-2009, 11:17 PM   #32
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How many mile do you guys have on your bikes? Mine nomad has 14K and seems to be ok, but maybe I'll add this to my list of things to do this winter.

Is there an explanation somewhere that explains exactly how to do it??
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Old 10-29-2009, 11:21 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by Utah Motorcyclist
How many mile do you guys have on your bikes? Mine nomad has 14K and seems to be ok, but maybe I'll add this to my list of things to do this winter.

Is there an explanation somewhere that explains exactly how to do it??
Just over 34,000 on mine when I serviced my steering neck last week.
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Old 10-30-2009, 02:50 PM   #34
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If you look in the last pict you can see I used tie downs and hung the bars from the ceiling. I thought it would be way easyer than removing all the crap on the bars. as for the jack I bought it at harbor freight about 6 years ago it was alot cheaper then.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=94715
 
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