The weather was great, had a nice breakfast and put on my gear for a full weekend of riding. Opened the garage and saw the puddle of fork oil, this was not how I planned my Easter weekend lol. It was perfect two weeks ago on my last ride, I guess it was going to happen sooner or later.

 

Ahhh dude I feel ya I redid my first set a few years ago and felt pretty good about myself then about 200 miles in they popped all over the new brake pads. Good video from superbike surgery if you want to give it a go!

 

In most cases, I would do it myself but I think I'll give this sort of dirty job to the service shop down the street. If anything, I'll remove the forks at home and drop them off for servicing, save some money on the labor time to have them remove and reinstall. The weather outlook this weekend isn't great, so I don't think I'll be missing out on any riding time.

 

I haven't addressed the fork seals yet but noticed something bizarre. When I saw the leak, the bike was on the kickstand. For whatever reason, I decided to put the bike on the rear and front stands before I left the garage so I could curse the motorcycle gods for punishing me. I go back to the garage a few days later and there is no leaking oil, I left some shop rags underneath to catch fluid. Drop the bike off the stands and let it lean on the kickstand overnight. Open the garage this morning and some oil had leaked out and dripped onto the rag.
Or is that normal behavior?

 

Leaning bike to one side loads seals sideways and pressure on fork-tube is no longer even. Pushes seal to one side and opening becomes an oval. Allows slight gap to open and oil leaks through.

Did seals, oil and bushings on my 600RR this last weekend. Doesn't take more than 1-hr really.