221, and Some Wintery Fun

This is my kind of cold weather motorcycling as of late.


Even though the WR-250XX I just bought is in excellent shape, there are parts in there that need a periodic greasing if you want them to remain in excellent shape.
Cleaning off the caked-up chain lube and road grime never hurt anybody either, unless you're allergic to getting dirt under your fingernails.
Shall I fetch you your reading slippers, too? :)



This is a lot more like it:
Clean, greased, and ready for installation.



Well, it would be installed by now, but, that thing with the black spring over it (the rear shock absorber) is being sent off today to a suspension shop that knows these WR-250XX shocks.
I'm not happy with the way the rear shock performs, even on the easy-going rides I had on the bike so far, so it's getting an overhaul and a revalve.
The supposed results are a shock that works properly.
I'm anxious to feel this for myself.

Yes, time for some off-season maintenance on my bikes.
The WR-250XX is the first to be delved into, although the WR-250FY is getting some work done to that, too.
With that bike as well, the rear shock is going out for a service, which is simply a freshening-up of the fluid, gas pressure, and replacing any worn parts, not a revalve or a changing of how it currently works.
I like very much how it works, and this merely keeps it working that way.

I haven't gotten either bike up here into the house, yet, and since the rear end of the WR-250XX is taken apart, that one is staying down in the garage until the shock comes back from the shop and it can roll once more.
The WR-250FY, I plan for today after jerk, will be drained of it's gasoline, Stabil-treated gas poured into the tank, the bike run for a few minutes, and then wheeled up into the house.
I'll have to drain all of the gas out of it so it doesn't stink-up the house, too.

Off to jerk,
-John