10 Best Tips To Maintain Your Motorcycle In Monsoon - RM Motors
These are some very basic
care you need to do for your bike in the monsoon.
1. Cover your Bike
properly :- One of the biggest menaces in the monsoon
season is wetting of the vehicle, so it is an added advantage, or rather a
blessing if you have a covered parking.
2. Get Anti-Rust
protection layer applied :- This is a problem that Enfield owners must know
first-hand. Luckily most of the bikes today are made of fiber bodies making
them resistant to rusting, but every bike has a main metal frame and that needs
protection.
3. Get a Teflon Coating if
possible :- Many of us would actually not recommend this in the first
place, but then Teflon helps make sure the water never touches your bike paint.
So it is good to know that your paint won’t get washed away in the rains.
4. Get the tyres
checked/replaced :- Monsoon biking is one of the toughest out
there, after all the wet roads are pretty hard to get a grip on. No one could
either get specialized monsoon tyres for their bikes, else the regular ones could
also do.
5. Clean up the bike chain
more frequently :- Rains mean mud, and that means dirt and muck
everywhere. Now, regular chain maintenance means cleaning up your bike chain
after every 500 kms or so. It is always better to not follow this system in the
monsoons since the chain gets dirtier quicker and also the rain water washes
off the grease or lubricant away.
6. Look for covered
parking spots :- When going out, parking in the open by the side
of the road is something we hate the most. So always check out for nearby
covered parking.
7. Clean up the Air Filter
:- Monsoon air is a lot heavy with loads of moisture in it. So there
are chances that the air filter might hold a lot of moisture and eventually
might end up tearing as well or get clogged not allowing proper air to pass
through.
8. Get Tyre pressure
optimized :- Summer tyre pressures are always on the lower side since the
heat expands the air. So in the monsoon when the air contracts as it is a bit
cold, the tyre pressure falls.
9. Invest in Proper Rain
Gear :- Protection from rains is as important for the rider as for
the bike. So get some proper rain gear to make sure you don’t get wet in the
rains.
10. Make sure the brakes
are in Proper shape :- The rain water when enters the braking
mechanism reduces the braking efficiency and bite by quite a lot.
Life is not about waiting for the storms to
pass it's about learning to ride in the rain.
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