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To give my bike one last test of the now-fixed transmission before draining the oil and Seafoam out and replacing the fluid, I went on a quick jaunt up and around 53rd Avenue. Everything went very well. My bike shifted like nothing at all. Smooth and clean. I did notice that trying to turn the left turn signal on and off is getting a bit more difficult. One of these days I really need to clean that switch assembly out.
My odometer indicated about 15 miles.
Drained out 50 weight oil and replaced with 10W40 Napa brand oil and 4 oz of Seafoam. Let bike idle for 20 minutes and exercised gears and clutch before taking it to the football stadium parking lot. Did seven miles worth of parking lot riding to free up the clutch and allow myself to shift between the different gears again. Did five miles on the road to get the bike up to 55mph.
Buzzed around the football parking lot exercising my newly freed gears until it would shift smoothly. Then took it out on the road up on highway 20 to 53rd and then over to Harrison and back around on 11th to Samantha’s house.
7 miles in the parking lot, 5 miles on the road Rode alone.