I do need to finish giving his bike a good service/once over. He is terrible at doing even the basics like pumping up the tyres. I rode it down the road on Saturday and after 2-300m turned around and came home as the handling was terrifying. Quick check with the pressure gauge told me why. 15psi in the front and 25030 in the rear
Pumped them up and was all good to go.
Jobs I did do before riding it though, adjusted the gear lever position so I could change gear without lifting my foot off the peg, adjusted the chain to reduce the slack from 50mm to about 30mm (lovely gear change now rather than the clunk it had before), adjusted the clutch cable at the bottom end so that the top end was not floating in the breeze with not even a single thread in the lever perch
Next jobs, once I can get the bike back off him again will be to give it a service, bleed the brakes (rear has far too much travel and front just don't bite that well) and generally finish giving it a good going over.
For an 03 plate with 22k miles on the clock, its not that bad really. Certainly nothing a few hours in the garage wouldn't solve.