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I'm new to the club and therefore new to bike maintenance. I want to do all needed upkeep on my new 06 Boulevard C50 myself. Can any one tell me which manual(s) are most user friendly. Thanks for the any help.

Hey femaleeyes - welcome! I have the Clymers manual (www.TheMotorBookstore.com) and also just ordered the Service Manual from OneidaSuzuki.com (who are total tools, but are the only ones I could find who carry the service manual). I ride a 2007 C50.

The Clymers is not that friendly for mechanitards like me, and I haven't yet received the Suzuki service manual, but what I can suggest is using the Volusia forum - http://www.volusiariders.com/index.php. Like this forum, everyone is extremely helpful with any questions you might have, but it focuses just on Volusia/Boulevard issues. They've talked me off the ledge a couple of times already. One of the members also posted a pretty voluminous series of maintenance instructions along with close-up photos of each process being done. Look for the "Rusks." I think he's taking them down soon becasue of bandwidth issues, but if you PM me with an email address, I'll send them to you since I downloaded the whole lot if you can't find them.

Hey Tropicalhotdog - Thanks for the welcome.
I was thinking about Clymers. I don't know if I'm a mechanitard or not ... guess I will find out soon enough . I really need something that is in english...if you know what I mean. I'm pretty handy with power tools so I should be able to do this.
I will definitely check out the other info you gave me also.

It's my first bike....you gotta love it (:kicking: WOOHOO!). I get a ton of compliments on it. How bout you?

Thanks so much for your help.