valves

Now that I have a 2nd bike (NC700XD) my NT doesn't get ridden as much. Checking my records I found that I last checked the valves on July 2017 with the odometer at 61k miles. Now 4 yrs, 2 months later and the odometer reads 78k miles. My NC was bought in late-2015 used with less than 1000...

I just did a valve check and adjustment on my NT last week. I posted some observations about it because the bike sounds a little "ticky" ever since. I'm going to do it again as soon as my 10mm off-set box wrench arrives (for adjusting the front cylinder exhaust valves). In the meantime, I went...

Here is a post I made in the other forum, last winter, about my first valve check: So I just finished the first valve check. The bodywork came off quickly, and went back on quickly. Familiarity made a huge difference here. I didn't take the tank altogether off - I just lifted it and propped...