{"id":9345,"date":"2020-07-18T06:18:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T13:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=9345"},"modified":"2020-07-18T06:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T13:18:05","slug":"a-recommended-tt250-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/18\/a-recommended-tt250-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"A recommended TT250 toolkit\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been featuring toolkits and rider resources in recent blogs, and here’s another one.\u00a0 It’s based on tailoring a toolkit for a specific bike (in this case, the CSC TT250).\u00a0 It’s from a blog I wrote for CSC about 4 years ago when I led a group of TT250 riders through northern Baja.\u00a0 The idea is to carry a tool for every likely need, without carrying any unnecessary tools.\u00a0 This blog should be particularly useful for TT250 riders.\u00a0 The concept can be extended to any motorcycle.<\/p>\n

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Originally posted on October 13, 2016<\/p>\n

I promised a recommended TT250 toolkit a few blogs back, and this afternoon I put together a list of the tools I\u2019m going to bring with me on the Baja trip.\u00a0\u00a0 The Internet being what it is, I have no doubt this will spark a firestorm of controversy from those of you who have different ideas.\u00a0 Hey, as my personal hero (that would be Dubya) once said, bring it on.\u00a0\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 If there\u2019s something you think I missed, let us know and if I think it makes sense I\u2019ll add it to the list.\u00a0\u00a0 That last part is important.\u00a0 I\u2019m bringing along the tools I think I might need in the unlikely event something goes south.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m not planning on doing an engine rebuild on the side of the road.\u00a0 Knock wood, I\u2019ve only ever had one serious breakdown on any of my rides (and it wasn\u2019t on a Chinese bike; in fact, it was on a bike that costs about 10 times what a new TT250 goes for\u2026and that bike didn\u2019t come with any tools).<\/p>\n

The TT250 comes with a modest tool kit\u00a0mounted in a container along the frame, as you see below.<\/p>\n

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They say halitosis is better than no breath at all, and that\u2019s kind of how I feel about the tool kits that come with new motorcycles (indeed, as mentioned above, some new motorcycles don\u2019t include any tools).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you get with the stock TT250 tool kit:<\/p>\n

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It includes a screwdriver with both blade and Phillips head drives, two wrenches with 8mm, 10mm, 13m, and 15mm ends, and a pressed steel socket that you\u2019re supposed to turn with the screwdriver shaft.\u00a0 The problem is that I don\u2019t think that pressed steel socket would hold its shape under serious torque (and even if it did, and you probably couldn\u2019t exert enough torque with the screwdriver shaft to adequately tighten or loosen the larger fasteners or the spark plug).<\/p>\n

I took a hard look at the nuts and bolts on my TT250 this morning, and here\u2019s what I\u2019m putting in my tool kit for Baja:<\/p>\n

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From left to right, here you go:<\/p>\n