Hi all, I recently put a new air filter in, and oiled it......I think I put a bit too much oil in the filter though, so I washed it straight afterwards before fitting.

Recently I have had a few issues, thinking that the bike seems to be a bit bland. I was thinking of putting a set of rings in, to see if the power came back.

Last night I washed the filter again, and used almost boiling water, so now there is only a little oil remaining, I nearly flipped the bugger earlier.....the power difference is amazing.

Just thought I'd share this incase anyone else has the same issues.

Also I have just bridged the fan, as for some reason the bike seems to run a lot better when the fan is on permanent.......what could cause this ?

Finally, I have been messing around with the front suspension, and have tightened the pre-load by 1 turn, and added 4 clicks of dampening, it now steers better and strangely, the back end seems a lot better.

It now feels really easy to hop, why would the rear end feel and act better from altering the front suspension ???

Cheers,

Andy.

I now have that feeling you get when selling a car, and you give it a good clean up, then don't want to sell it....!

Not too sure on the other points but I think the changes you've made to the front suspension will have altered the geometry of the bike slightly. The extra preload should give you somthing a bit more solid to push against when hopping the back end rather than all your energy being lost in a load of fork dive.

It might also be partly the placebo effect but either way, its all good!