04-22-2017, 06:08 AM
(04-21-2017, 01:29 PM)bigsheep_imp Wrote: If you can't see any evidence of it falling over or worse sliding is say go for it. 150 miles isn't even broken in. Depending on how long it's been sitting or if the person hasn't changed the fluids recently even though it's low mileage you may want to get fluids changed before you run it. The sightglasses should be pretty close to clear, if you see a darker colour change the fluids before you ride it.
To give you an idea, of what can happen to break and clutch fluid, it's the same Dot 4 fluid, I recently changed these fluids after over 4 years for the first time. I use the CB often and it has run 33.000km. The break fluid still looks good, in a way like new fluid. Don't know, if it has drawn some water overtime. There's a rubber seal between the membran and the fluid tank to prevent it. Only the underside of the cover shows slight spurs of aluminium oxidation, which makes me wonder, but there's no second seal under it.
The fluid for the clutch, which I had more often used than the front brake, has altered it's colour and started getting darker. Not the way, that gets me into trouble, but it did.
Remember, the CB has run in all seasons and also sometimes in rain.
I don't think, that a Honda standing still all the time in an assumed dry room with so less miles on its speedometer will show any darkening of its fluids. Not even the engine oil should look bad. Maybe I'm wrong. But I won't mind all that much and would ride on this fairly new bike for a while. At least until it is ridden in and then change something. First the oil plus filter.
Wisedrum