Wash day

It's been two weeks since it's last wash, so today was wash day for the little Honda CRF250L. Some before pics:

And then some after pics:

I polished those grubby marks off the radiator shrouds so it's back to white again. I still can't get this seat clean, I'll try some other cleans sometime and report back.

This is the seat currently (after the wash):

There's also some marks from my boots on the engine covers:

and this:

That's quite disappointing, but this has happened on most of my bikes. I actually used to cover them with duct tape on some of my ktm's to keep them scratch free. I might try that on these sometime.

Fuel consumption went to an all time high of 3.7l/100km with my license test and all the stop/starting that went that, so that should drop slightly over the next tank.

The Test

Today was my chance to finally go for my riders test, in the hopes of not needing to redo my learners every two years. I passed thanks my little red Honda. I had to redo one of the exercises because I was too fast! The little Honda did everything perfectly with ample power to get me through easily. I'm sure fuel consumption will go up a little with all the stop start  shutdown and startup again riding but at least that's behind me now. Also worth noting is the fan didn't even need to come on so it's been another great day with my CRF250L.

The little fan

I recently went for a riding lesson as part of my preparations to take my license test and with all the slow riding with stopping and starting the little Honda's fan came on twice. I haven't actually had a bike with a fan before so it was a little strange for me but she performed perfectly well and continued like she's supposed to. Fuel consumption doesn't seem to have been affected by the slow riding, it was 3.6L/100km on the last tank. It's winter over here currently and the fuel injection has been great, the bike starts first time and not having to deal with a choke has been great, I'm really enjoying this bike.