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Originally Posted by pcast01
Thanks for the story. I have been trying to get my bike ready to get inspected so I can finally register it and I am just frustrated. I can look at it now as all of this is teaching me so much about maintaining a bike. I have zero experience in this as this is my first bike. So I am grateful for all who help me out and the lessons I am learning from this. I tried to start motorcycling a few years ago and I crashed a SV650 on a test ride weeks after my MSF course. I was completely in over my head. I have been looking to get back into riding but I was apprehensive and finally decided that I must start slow and steady and get good at riding on this 250 but it also comes with learning a lot of the mechanical aspects.
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Well, you picked the right bike for learning the mechanical side of things - you can't get much simpler and easy to work on. After you wrap your head around it a little bit you will come to realize that most of it is really simple stuff. These are good skills to learn and things to know. It's your butt in the saddle, and when things go wrong it can be a lot more dangerous. That's why I am so overkill with my maintenance and safety checks. After a while it becomes habit.
Plus, once you get these bikes sorted out, they are pretty darn reliable. The only repairs I have really had to do are because my bike has been laid down a couple of times.