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Prepped the VF for a ride to Luxemburg tomorrow, back on Monday. Prep as in: put fuel in Picked up a NOS seat for the Cagiva and painted the rack and exhaust. Yeah, that looks much better.... Add 2 horsepowerrrrrr

Thanks, pic attached. Last time we moved my wife said I would never use those weights again so I was happy to prove her wrong. OP Sorry for the hijack.

The hollow VFR rear axle presents a creative opportunity for keeping the front end off the ground for service; IIRC I had 35 lbs on each side. If the front end stays up comfortably with the bike complete it only gets more stable as you remove parts.

I suspect the dealer changed the outer seal but not inner. Some oil film gets past my new seals but not like old seals. See part 21: One other reason "why" is the original seals could have just aged out, and in addition to grit allowed water and other contaminants in. And whatever is still in there is still in there. It occurs to me the dealership could have (don't know why they would do this, but...) just replaced the seals or just upper and not oil and whatnot. Or, they could have replaced the oil but not cleaned out the bottom. FYSA, when I got my bike back in 2020 and serviced the forks, the last time they had been apart was in 2007 when I revalved them. I want to say the other two owners put about 10,000 beginner and commuting miles on it past whatever I did after that. The bottom was something like crude oil and the seals were not awesome. (Bike was clearly parked outside in the weather and the upper seals were cracking...so there is that.) I only know this because I completely disassembled the fork and looked at the damper and bottom of the lowers to clean them out. There are two dozen different versions of "servicing" forks for oil change or maybe outer seal swap that would not lead you to clean out the bottom of the fork. I think I've even done the oil change with a siphon method without removing the forks. Let alone a technician who's doing a bunch of things today and maybe isn't going to take the time you or I would to make sure it's clean and grit-free after removing the sludge. I guess it's possible that your bushings are bad enough to misalign your seals enough to let oil out and other things in. But even my bushings weren't that bad after pumping sludge, and I think you would notice other problems.

Spring 2022