18-07-13, 10:23 AM
If you're happy taking the rear wheel off you could leave the chain in oil for a week or so and give it a degrease etc ?
Whilst you have the wheel off you can check the pads, give the calipers the once over.
Change the oil, check the brake oil levels.
TBH my bike was sitting around for 3-4 years before it was passed on to me and bar a seized rear caliper it was good to go until I got my hands on it and dropped it.
The most important things imo are tyres, brakes, oil's, chain, lights. The fuel might be old, but if it gets you to the petrol station a fill up should fix that.
Just my 2p, E&OE & YMMV
Whilst you have the wheel off you can check the pads, give the calipers the once over.
Change the oil, check the brake oil levels.
TBH my bike was sitting around for 3-4 years before it was passed on to me and bar a seized rear caliper it was good to go until I got my hands on it and dropped it.
The most important things imo are tyres, brakes, oil's, chain, lights. The fuel might be old, but if it gets you to the petrol station a fill up should fix that.
Just my 2p, E&OE & YMMV
Opinions are like A**holes, Everyone has one. Some people seem to have more than one though which is a bit odd.