After the restoration: 10800-mile service [page 2]
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
I really dislike mounting tires. Every time I change a tire I do more damage to my poor rims. The only reason I do it is that I do less damage than the last place I had do it for me.
Fed Ex delivered the Avon AM 21 I ordered. I had a choice, the 110/90
or the 100/90. It's been my experience that with some manufactures
the 110/90 is closer to the profile of the original 3.50 and with others
the 100/90 is closer. I should have ordered the AM 21 in 100/90. The
110/90 is larger than the ME 880 which was real close in profile to the
3.50. Next time, assuming I like the tire, I'll try the 100/90.
I'm not going to comment on actually changing the tire other than to
say it took way too long. Getting the old tire off was a pain. The
new tire went on only slightly easier. Balancing was extra easy. I put
the wheel on the balance stand and it barely moved. I moved the wheel.
It barely moved again, and came to rest at a different spot. I hadn't
even removed the old weights, yet. Guess I got lucky.
This picture shows that the tire is a tight fit. I don't need to
deflate the tire to mount the wheel, but I do have to remove the nut and
back out the bolt holding the left shock. I'm curious to see how well the
tire rides and if it effects the mild 32 MPH shimmy that has been plaguing
the bike for the last thousand miles or so.
The wheel is on the bike. The plan is to work on engine related things
tomorrow. According to the schedule I'll
be checking cylinder base nuts, re-torquing the heads, and cleaning carbs
in addition to typical tune up tasks. I recently checked both front and
rear wheel bearings as well as the front swing arm bearings. I'll be
skipping those tasks this service.