My bikes mint apart from it not going at the Moment ! But cleaning it in the garage the other night I found myself very pis*ed off by the fur on the front hoses !!! Anyone fitted after market ? Hel .... Goodrich ?
Why do you store a musical instrument in a garage. Surely a warm well maintained hermetically sealed environment is better for them.. Sell the bike, its a duffer'
It's a bit of a pain (and expense) to replace hoses before they are old, especially if they are already the braided variety (which I assume yours are). If the banjos are steel plated with whatever they used (Cadmium? Nickel?) then a dose of a soft (Copper) wire brush might work well enough. Either that or Solvol Autosol and elbow grease. That said, I put a set of Venhill hoses on a bike last year and I am pleased with them (nice domed/chromed banjos and separate unions from hose to banjo, allowing optimal alignment - according to Venhill anyway). Venhill are a UK supplier with good customer service in my experience (they missed a couple of parts out of my kit and rectified this very quickly). You can always pay a bit more to get stainless fittings too. I've never heard anything bad about Hel or Goodrich, and there are masses more on ebay (Galfer etc).
