K is for Kansas Mud Kleanup

Okay, so I've finally gotten all of Kansas scrubbed out of the Beemer. Lemme tell you, it wasn't an easy job! The Dakar says, "You ever take me there again, I'll toss your sorry ass in the ditch and ride home alone."

The wife says I'm obsessive ... that I go to extremes. I don't know where she gets that impression.


Sure, most people just take a hose to their bike and call it good. You already know that I'm not most people!



Had to get everything out from around the rear shock, of course, and I wanted to lube all the swingarm bearings just in case any of that Bentonite crap worked its way past the seals. So the rear end had to come off.


Same for the steering head bearings (which I noticed in this tear down are starting to feel like they've developed a bit of a notch when the bars are centered: brand new bearings next tear down, I guess). So the front end also had to come off.


There was the usual pile of parts spread out on the garage floor.



And, of course, we got everything cleaned up beneath the countershaft sprocket cover.

Now all I have to do is put it all back together again...