Basic Dirtbike Maintenance 101 - Filters

Basic Dirtbike Maintenance 101 - how to care for your air filter

In my last post I preached that you should change the oil every ride.  The premise is that oil is cheap, engines are expensive, so it’s a no-brainer.  The same goes for keeping your air filter clean and oiled. A tiny amount of grit getting into your engine is VERY BAD.  Trust me on this.

As with the oil, a few basic rules:  Clean and oil the filter every ride. (Ok that was one rule, even better).  Maybe if you go for a little spin, and it’ not dusty, and the filter looks just as clean as when you started, then fine, you can let it go for one more.  But the general rule is to clean it every time you ride.

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Basic Dirtbike Maintenance 101 - Oil

Basic Dirtbike Maintenance 101 - Oil

There are a million things to worry about on a dirt bike.  It’ll drive you crazy.  But if you take care of the basics, you can save yourself a lot of time and money.  But it takes some discipline.  We are not ‘race every weekend’ riders, but we do ride 2-4 times per month, for a good 4 hours each time.  Here is what we do. This first post will cover oil.

I am a serious “change your oil” person, with all my vehicles.  I figure it this way:  Oil is about $5 per quart, an engine rebuild is $1500 or more.  Enough said.  When it comes to our bikes, I have two rules:

1. Change the oil every ride.
2. Use motorcycle oil.