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Three years old today , Happy Birthday . It's now due the annual MOT test but I'm not going to bother for another month , it hasn't been on the road since last September . Two minor problems with the bike , a battery that was showing low voltage , and both front fork seals that have wept from day one. The battery was changed last year as a precaution , on removal it was dated 2015 , a good three years older than the bike. The fork seals are still weeping 6696 miles later , not enough to call a leak , more a dirty ring where dust has stuck after a couple of hundred miles. I was advises that they would bed in but they never did , I was going to get them changed just before the warrantee expired but COVID got in the way , so now I live with them . Two trips to the Continent cancelled , the ferry was taken out of service first time round , and COVID the second time . Let's hope this year is a better year for all of us.

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Three years old today , Happy Birthday . It's now due the annual MOT test but I'm not going to bother for another month , it hasn't been on the road since last September . Two minor problems with the bike , a battery that was showing low voltage , and both front fork seals that have wept from day one. The battery was changed last year as a precaution , on removal it was dated 2015 , a good three years older than the bike. The fork seals are still weeping 6696 miles later , not enough to call a leak , more a dirty ring where dust has stuck after a couple of hundred miles. I was advises that they would bed in but they never did , I was going to get them changed just before the warrantee expired but COVID got in the way , so now I live with them . Two trips to the Continent cancelled , the ferry was taken out of service first time round , and COVID the second time . Let's hope this year is a better year for all of us.

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I celebrate bike anniversaries too :) fun post and glad it's been 3 mostly trouble free years. Sorry about the travel limitations, especially currently, but yes, here's to a brighter 2021+

Andy , It's not really a leak as such , more that the stanchions are never really wiped dry by the seals. This means that any dust sticks to them and as the forks move it creates a dirty ring which feels oily when I wipe it off . It's not the end of the world , I own old British bikes , I know what a real oil leak is

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Andy , It's not really a leak as such , more that the stanchions are never really wiped dry by the seals. This means that any dust sticks to them and as the forks move it creates a dirty ring which feels oily when I wipe it off . It's not the end of the world , I own old British bikes , I know what a real oil leak is

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