Well the intention was to spend my time actually playing on my 'new to me' 2010 ec 300, but a set of leaking seals made me realise I had to do at least some maintenance before having a good thrash round.
(my usual practice is to strip a bike or car when I get it so that I 'know' it's safe or race ready)
It would have been nice just once to have had a play first.
Anyway the struggle to get the front axle off began to set off alarm bells that the bike may not have had 'regular' maintenance.
By the time I had got the front apart and found the spacers were siezed solid to the axle, and that the bearings had fallen to pieces,
I realized that I was the first person to do ANY maintenance on it.
I couldn't belive how in just 2 years it could be so bad.
Then things started getting strange, (hence the thread title)
And as I can only put 4 images in a post for some reason, I'll have to split this into 2.