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alantf · 06-13-2011, 04:30 AM

Adjusting the cables is pretty much normal when a bike has done only a few miles. Cables, by their very nature, start to stretch as soon as you start using them. Dunno why there should be a nail instead of a cotter pin though. He shouldn't have had need to disconnect it.

If you suspect that the bike may have more miles on it than it says, a quick, rule of thumb, method of checking is to look for wear on the footpegs. A bike with only 168 miles on it should have pretty much perfect rubber on them. An older bike will start showing wear. What I can't understand is why the guy would have started doing expensive mods to a new bike before he discovered he'd bought the wrong one. This seems to suggest that he wanted a faster one, but if this is the case, then he would have found this on day one, before changing the exhaust. Also I forgot to mention) check how much rubber has been used up on the tyre tread. 168 miles means negligible rubber loss. :2tup:

06-13-2011, 04:30 AM	#4
alantf Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Tenerife (Spain) Posts: 3,715	Re: BEGINING TO WONDER Adjusting the cables is pretty much normal when a bike has done only a few miles. Cables, by their very nature, start to stretch as soon as you start using them. Dunno why there should be a nail instead of a cotter pin though. He shouldn't have had need to disconnect it. If you suspect that the bike may have more miles on it than it says, a quick, rule of thumb, method of checking is to look for wear on the footpegs. A bike with only 168 miles on it should have pretty much perfect rubber on them. An older bike will start showing wear. What I can't understand is why the guy would have started doing expensive mods to a new bike before he discovered he'd bought the wrong one. This seems to suggest that he wanted a faster one, but if this is the case, then he would have found this on day one, before changing the exhaust. Also I forgot to mention) check how much rubber has been used up on the tyre tread. 168 miles means negligible rubber loss. :2tup: __________________ By birth an Englishman, by the grace of God a Yorkshireman.
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