Well, motorcycle valve adjustments can be inconvenient at best and a pain in the butt and rather expensive at worst.

I mean you're either going to have to do it yourself or you're going to have to pay someone else to do it, and that's going to have to go over and over for the life of the motorcycle. But not all motorcycles require

valve adjustments. So why is it that so many bikes out there do require them when other ones

don't require them at all? And what happens if you decide to just skip over your valve clearance check?

If you do your own valve clearance check,

where do you set the gap?

You set it at the narrowest range, the middle,

or the widest range.

And what do these valves do anyway?

If you're not into engines, what exactly is the whole point of adjusting valves?

Well, we're going to dig into all these questions and a lot more today to get a better

understanding of what makes

our motorcycles tick. Literally.

I'm Jim Martin.

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