One of my friends said that the first thing he does when he gets a brand spakin used vehicle is he does the general maintenance on it. I now know why. I did all but 1 thing for general maintenance, finally had the time and this is the 16k mile maintenenance, on my motorcycle. Spark plugs were horrendous and I am surprised the bike even started (it did a small amount of almost stalling when running so I am assuming the plugs where why). Replaced the plugs and it takes next to nothing now for the bike to start and no more about to stall sounds. I didnt replace the air filter as I had to order one since no one carries it in stock. If you can believe it the filter is $50. it is caked with sandy oil, hair, and what looks like pink insulation. The paper is hard as a rock on top of that. So as soon as that comes in (supposed to be wed) I will be installing that. The only thing I didnt do for general maintenance was check the valve height. I dont have a valve adjustment wrench so I will have to order one of those. The only hard part of the valve adjustment is taking the stuff off to get the bike to do the adjustment lol.
anyways with cleaning of the lines/adding anti freeze (the resevoure was almost empty)/changing spark plugs/changing oil (did that a while back and posted about that in another thread)/cleaning and properly adjusting carbs the bike sounds smoother running. Oh and I finally adjusted and tightened my headlight so now its not pointing at the ground as much lol.
So in essance a good check of everything (including all hoses be it gas/radiator/vacuum whatever) when you buy a used bike is a good thing to do. It looks almost as if this bike never got any preventative maintenance done to it. All the lines look good though so I dont gotta worry about that stuff

. I dont think this bike has seen the light of rain until I started riding cause pfft its only water lol. I guess what amazes me is someone can make something and keep somethign so clean on the outside but do nothing with the stuff thats on the inside. The inside is what matters more than the outside. Good thing I got a service manual and a few tools along with having a mechanical liscence lol. Actually I have had to buy tools for this bike because well I have never worked on a bike before this. I bought a 18mm spark plug wrench (which the autozone worked said doesnt exist yet I pulled one right off the thing in front of him) and it didnt fit around the spark plug because the housing was to narrow for my socket to get down onto the plug. So I took my brand new socket and ground it on my grinder so I could fit it on the housing. All well I had to change the plugs and if I gotta take a $4 socket and grind it to make it work then so be it lol. Anyways I had lots o fun doing the general maintenance on my bike. I learned alot even though I wasnt able to do the valve adjustment check (which looks like a pain since I gotta remove the gas tank).