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Old 05-02-2009, 02:10 AM   #2
5th_bike
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Re: 6,000 miles checkup - go to a dealer or do it myself?

Frame tightening is not hard, you just need a torque wrench and a metric wrench set. There is a nice table in the manual with all required torques. I did it last weekend, a few things I couldn't check so I just checked for tightness. And in my book the spokes are good as long as they have a clear 'plunk' to them when you hit them with something.

Oiling the cables is a little tricky, not the oiling itself, but to get to the cables. You will have to unscrew something at the handle end of each cable. For the clutch cable it's handy to undo it from the handle, then you can just drip the oil into the cable. After that, setting the correct play in the cables is easy enough too.

Oil change, piece of cake. Cleaning & oiling the chain - haven't you done it already ?

One thing I haven't done yet is adjusting the valves, you need a special tool. But for just checking them you don't need that tool.

Just print the maintenance section from the manual, it's handy to check off things as you go.
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