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Philip's Ravings

My blog contains topics of interest to me, or recent activities I have been involved in.

  1. My first time servicing a bike

    Well I decided to take the plunge and start doing simple servicing on my bike, a Honda CBR600.

    The first step was laying my hands on a service manual. This tells you what needs to be done when. The Honda manual also identified stuff by difficulty, so I've decided I'm going to start doing the basic stuff, and only use a bike mechanic for those difficult jobs, or those jobs requiring expensive specialist tools.

    So this weekend I set about changing the oil and oil filter. ...