Servicing front forks

[Grumpy Goat]

Good point Darrell. I should look into what it takes to do the fork service, but since it involves taking the forks out then and then possibly taking them apart to some degree, I was leaning toward getting it done by the dealer. Also I don't want to buy any specialty tools for this. Doing it winter would be the only viable time for me.

I did complain earlier in the bike's service life of weeping in the forks (left being slightly worse) and the mechanic replaced the seal on the left side only (I believe) and cleaned it up and since then there has been no more sweating. So clean it is that I wondered if there was any oil in them!

The time for your full service at 50k miles seems about right if the forks did take 2.5 hours, as that would leave another 3 hours to do the other stuff.