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How To Maintain Your Dirt Bike

December 26, 2020 by Bel Leave a Comment

Carrying out routine maintenance of your dirt bike isn’t only important because of their hefty price tag but also to ensure they’re in excellent working condition. And with your dirt bike working as required, you’re safeguarded from avoidable accidents and injuries due to mechanical failure. In addition, this maintenance increases the longevity of your dirt bike, ensuring you get to enjoy great value for your hard-earned money.

If you don’t know where to start to maintain your dirt bike, look no further. Here’s an insightful guide by Tokyo Mods highlighting useful tips on how to best maintain your dirt bike.

  • Regularly Change The Engine Oil 

The oil in your dirt bike cools and lubricates the internal parts, plus it’s the engine’s blood to ensure it runs smoothly. Therefore, it’s vital to inspect its condition before every ride and to change it regularly. Doing this is necessary because engine oil, as time passes, starts to break down due to pressure and heat. This leads to reduced performance and heat-built inside your dirt bike’s engine.

With regular changing of the oil, you’ll be able to safeguard your engine from damage, and the replacement is often quite expensive.

  • Air Filter Maintenance

While cleaning the air filter is undoubtedly a dirty and tedious task, proper cleaning and maintenance is essential. Otherwise, you risk sucking the power produced by your dirt bike’s engine, thereby hindering you from enjoying its full power. To avoid this from happening, you need to always make sure to clean the air filter using a cleaner.

Once you’re through, give it enough time to dry properly and after that, soak it inside air filter oil. Leave it inside the oil for some time for it to become gluey before you install it back to your dirt bike.

  • Check The Chain 

You should always inspect the tension of your dirt bike to make sure it has the proper tension. Doing this is crucial because if the chain is too loose, it increases the risk of disconnecting from the sprocket. In contrast, if it’s too tight, there’s a greater likelihood of the chain and sprockets wearing out prematurely or breaking while you’re riding your bike.

Either of these scenarios is very dangerous as it might lead to an accident and cause you serious injury. So, you always need to inspect the chain and adjust it appropriately to safeguard your wellbeing.  

  • Inspect The Bolts 

The frequent jumps and bumps cause lots of vibrations that, over time, loosen the bolts on your dirt bike. You should, thus, make sure that everything is intact, and the best way to do this is by inspecting each of the bolts- from the side plate bolts, triple clamp pinch bolts, and axle nuts.

  • Assess The Control Cables And Your Controls 

An overall inspection of the clutch and throttle cables is also necessary to ensure they’re in excellent working condition. If there’s any sign of it being kinked or frayed, you need to replace them. You should also examine your handlebars by rotating them their entire range and carefully listen to whether you’ll notice an increase in the engine’s rpm. If there’s an increase, install to the throttle cable a free play, and then proceed to test the responsiveness of your operation.

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