Bike is 25 years previous with 111,000 miles on it.
Again in November I rode as much as Arkansas, 400-mile journey up there. I parked the bike, and the following morning I found oil all around the rear rim.
I rode the bike house the following day, cleaned it up, and for the following a number of months, just a few thousand miles, as much as 100-mile journeys, it did not occur once more.
The bike has sat within the storage for the final couple months, then a pair weeks in the past I’m going for a 200-mile journey. I park the bike within the storage and stroll away.
Yesterday, I noticed this on the rear rim.
Not as a lot, however the identical sample. This didn’t occur anytime after the primary incident in November up by way of April. There’s a little crud across the FD drain plug, however that could be a place I do not normally clear between FD oil modifications, form of out of sight.
I checked the FD oil degree immediately and it’s in the precise spot, virtually touching the underside of the threads. The rear grasp cylinder is full. Though there was one thing moist on the backside of the rubber line operating down from the grasp cylinder, the place the brake fluid has to make a 45-degree flip.
I checked the torque, and each the fill cap and the drain plug have been torqued appropriately.
When I attempt to wiggle the rear wheel, there’s ZERO play with my fingers at 3 & 9. There’s a VERY SMALL quantity of wiggle with my fingers at 12 & 6. Simply sufficient to acknowledge that it does wiggle.
I noticed a publish the place somebody talked about the vent for the FD leaking.
I’m no mechanic. I’m not mechanically inclined. I am the man you avoid your instruments and your bikes in your storage.
I’d recognize any suggestions.