I bought it from a dealer who just got it in on a trade. Before I bought it, I took it for a few laps around the dealership and it seemed to run pretty good. It had good acceleration, wasn’t clunking and the breaks worked decent. The only thing I didn’t like was that there was a rattling noise. It wasn’t there at idle, or when I got up to speed, but while accelerating it was there. I stopped the bike and the owner of the dealership and I started shaking parts of the bike and it seemed like the shifter was knocking against the exhaust heat guard and making the noise. I jammed a piece of cardboard between the shifter and the exhaust and when I tested it again the noise was probably 75% gone so I’m hoping that’s all that the noise was.
I pick the bike up on Saturday. What should I do when I get it? Oil change obviously, check the air filter… what else? I want to get it all cleaned up before I start hitting the trails with it. I want to find out if there’s anything wrong with it. I’m hoping to keep this bike for a long time and slowly build it into a mud machine.
Any advice and tips would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
