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TT250 Chain Adjustment and Wheel Alignment

This maintenance tutorial addresses adjusting the TT250 motorcycle’s chain and aligning the rear wheel.  You will need 13mm, 18mm, and 19mm wrenches, and a screwdriver for this maintenance activity. You don’t have to get the rear wheel off the ground … Continue reading

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TT250 Rear Wheel Removal and Reinstallation

Rear wheel removal and reinstallation is easy on the CSC TT250 motorcycle.   You’ll need a way to get the rear wheel off the ground, 18mm and 19mm wrenches, a 10mm socket wrench, and that’s about it. The first step is … Continue reading

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TT250 Brake Maintenance

This tutorial addresses TT250 front and rear brake maintenance. General Information The front brake master cylinder is located on the right handlebar.  It has a fluid level indicator on the master cylinder that shows the “low” level.  When the front … Continue reading

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What a Year!

2015 has been an absolutely amazing year for CSC Motorcycles and our motorcycle family – you, the folks who ride CSC motorcycles.   It’s been one of the best years ever, and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. Ah, where to … Continue reading

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Back home from Colombia…

Wow, what an adventure!   Zipping around Colombia for 9 days on an RX3 motorcycle with my good buddies Juan and Carlos, a day in the AKT Moto plant, two easy flights (Medellin to Bogota, and Bogota to Los Angeles), and … Continue reading

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Day 8: Sweet Home La Ceja!

Yesterday was our last day on the road.   It was yet another glorious day of adventure riding in Colombia. The night we spent under the Volcan Nevado del Ruiz was freezing.   It was the coldest night we experienced on this trip.   I … Continue reading

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Day 7: Volcan Nevado del Ruiz

A delightful hotel, sweltering heat, more mountain twisties, freezing cold, fog that cut visibility down to 30 feet, dirt roads, riding at 13,576 feet, hot sulfur baths, and a burbling volcano that killed 23,000 people in 1985…all in a day’s … Continue reading

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Day 6: Honda

Let me see if I can get this right:   I’m a guy from California riding a Chinese motorcycle in Colombia headed to a town called Honda.   Yep, that was yesterday’s ticket. We left Villa de Leyva early in the morning, climbed … Continue reading

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Day 5: Villa de Leyva

Actually, it’s pronounced “via da layba.”   I’m learning how to be a Colombian, and how to speak like one.  Colombian Spanish is different than Mexican Spanish.   Much to my regret, I don’t speak either one.  Someday… Juan Carlos and Carlos … Continue reading

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Day 4: Barichara!

More riding, another Andean crossing, a bit of rain, and we arrived in Barichara! Barichara is a artist’s town, and it’s one of the most exclusive places in all of Colombia.  It was another glorious day of mountain riding.  I … Continue reading

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