It’s the day after Christmas, which is a great day for relaxing, but I decided I hadn’t done anything on my bike in too long. I considered sealing my tank, but the epoxy has warnings about fumes on it, so it seems it would be inadvisable to do so indoors and it’s too cold do do it outside.

I plan on doing my own tires, as well as replacing the rear shock. It’s time to take off the tires! Turns out I didn’t have the correct sockets; all of mine were too small. Once I got the correct sockets (24mm rear, 22mm front), a bit of effort with a breaker bar got the nuts off the axles. After dropping the wheels out, I checked the bearings by twisting them manually.

One bearing on the rear wheel needs replacing, so I plan to replace them all. The bike doesn’t have a lot of miles, but it is 22 years old and the bearings are only sealed on one side. I have no idea how long they’ll be good for.

This is how I keep track of all the parts that go with the axles: keep them on the axel in the same order they came off the bike!

Now that the wheels are off, I have a good list of things to do:

Replace wheel bearings

Replace tires

Clean sprocket on the rear wheel

Replace stock shock with ZX600 shock

I’ll likely begin these things after the first week of January. As always, here’s a (short) gallery of pictures from the work:

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Tags: EX250F, Motorcycle, Project