Many times I've seen the front brake caliper seals harden an not allow the piston to move forward as the pad wears.

This can cause a wonky lever feel.

Bottom line, you need to just freshen up your front brake system.

The whole thing.

What they said, plus when mine gets grungy, I'll carefully use a Motion Pro Chain Brush on it.

One of these rules is that I will buy any motorcycle that:

• I can ride it as it is without much if any work.
• Has a clean title
• It is a buck a cc or less

At this point in my life, I felt safe, as I am not in buying mode.

Far from it.

Then a Buell Blast comes up and it met the criteria.

It's basically half a Sportster engine, the rear cylinder removed.

It's slower than any 500cc motorcycle I have ever ridden.

The brakes are stellar.

That windscreen, that may have been created by Satan himself.

Specifically, Satan wanted it to wind buffet a 6'4" rider into a fierce rage.

After a mile I was ready to push the bike in a ditch and burn it.

After another half a mile I was riding it like a dog hanging it's head out the window - leaning way to the side, into a stream of fresh, stabile, pleasing wind.

The handlebars also sucked, being too narrow, making everything harder than it needed to be.

Halfway through the ride, I stopped for the 1st time at a friends house, and begged him for tools to remove the fairing.

Buell, would it take simple tools to do anything an engineer has touched? Who was I kidding. Plus, my buddy had trouble finding his allen keys. Asking for more tools might have been bad.

That fairing pulled right off, no tools needed, and the motorcycle was 1000000 times better.

Rode home and got to work.

Found a stock windscreen on eBay. Fine, now I am over a buck a cc.......

Those bars and knuckle busters are now gone, replaced by no less than 5 different slightly bent handlebars that I thought were good.

I picked up a ton of parts from a dealer, now I am realizing, I hauled off a lot of scrap metal.

The 6th or 7th handlebar was not bent, but it was wide, and not a bad height, in fact, it is darn near perfect.

Windscreen auction was won, it arrived.

Slapped on a set of bar end mirrors replacing the stock Mickey Mouse Ear mirrors.


It's much better, as soon as the temperature hits 50 again I'll take it out again.

Someone is going to buy this from me this spring, for probably $1500, and it will be a great motorcycle for them.

My goal is to try and not put more than that amount of money into before I sell it.

I think Chipmunk meant clutch cover and possibly just the outer ring

https://www.rpmracingca.com/proddetail.asp?prod=OuterClutchRing&cat=31

https://www.rpmracingca.com/proddetail.asp?prod=Crankcover%3A5EA-15426-20-00

We have brand new ones in stock.

Quote from: miatamarty on December 02, 2025, 11:47:39 AMI see all these chain cleaner products. Are they any good or do they just cause more problems with the o-rings. Just wipe it down with a little acetone before lubing?

My tip for chain cleaning is, give it a bit of a wipe when you are changing to a new one, it'll stop your hands getting really dirty, otherwise I don't really clean it.

As with the lube, usually after a ride while the chains still warm and as FJmonkey says.. every couple of tanks.

I use Motul off road, Never used a wax one.

Baby fell over in garage and rear brake pedal punched a hole in the crankcase cover.
Anyone have one for sale that won't require a second mortgage to afford???
Thanks in advance. Ebay was dry fyi.

Thanks everyone!!
Did the tie back thing and it solved the issue!! Very cool.

Quote from: miatamarty on December 02, 2025, 11:47:39 AMI see all these chain cleaner products. Are they any good or do they just cause more problems with the o-rings. Just wipe it down with a little acetone before lubing?

No, do not use acetone on your O ring chain. You will eat the rubber O rings.

I see all these chain cleaner products. Are they any good or do they just cause more problems with the o-rings. Just wipe it down with a little acetone before lubing?