Listen to these fellas they know what they're talking about. As far as the 10 minute let it run deal, I'll try to explain it as I understand it. It goes like this,lets sayyou have a very small room with an air conditioner in it. Room gets hot so you wack on the aircon. What happens is the room cools down real fast and condensation forms on the windows right? (it also works in reverse) Like when you have a heated room and it's cold outside. Well the same principal applies. Imagine your crankcase is a very small room. Your not gonna fit a lot of furniture in there but what you are doing is taking a cold room and warming it really fast. What this does is from condensation. You really need to get the bike to a decent temp to cook it off or else said condensation is going to sit inside your crankcase and start to rust your internals.

I'm not the best with analogies so if someone else can better explain please be my guest.

Also the neutral problem has nothing to do with your clutch. You're in neutral, clutch is engaged but not driving a gear. Besides, you mentioned that you went for a quick blast around the car park. You would definately know if it was your clutch by then.

Rusted chain aint gonna help one bit. Clean and lube that sucker and see if that helps but I would definately replace it. Inspect your sprockets too. They might be knackered.

Read this https://cbrforum.com/m_405789/tm.htmabout the charging system too because I doubt just scooting around the carpark is doing your battery any good.

Best of luck mate.

 

The information you read regarding a weekly running of the engine is total BS.

Condensation builds up when two surfaces are being heated and/ or cooled at different rates.

The two surfaces in our scenario is theoil and the crankcase.

You know when you start up your bike and some steam comes out of the exhaust? Guess what, the exact same thing is happening inside your engine as well.

Now if you repeat that process over and over then eventually you will have a layer of water that gets mixed in with your oil which breaks down the lubricating properties of the oil. Do that enough times and before you know it, you've blown your motor because the oil can't do its job.

For winterizing, fill the tank, drain the carbs trickle charge the battery once a month and wait for spring time.Winterizing isreally that simple.

For summer, I assume you ride more than 2 minutes at a time so, IMO, maintain it as you normally would.

 

Clear and concise!

 

wow, never thought about that....looks like i wont be running the bikes like that anymore. i hate being ignorant on a topic...

thanks guys for the help