Totally wired
Arguably there are several components on motorcycles which come under the category of 'important but ignored' and I bet you're mentally naming them right now.
Drive chains are one such bit which often are ignored until they barely go round and are brown with rust, their matching sprockets too can be left until they resemble discs of metal maybe with a bump here and there, as the machine's owner wonders why performance has suffered and likely needs a hot cam or a cereal packet under the barrel to restore performance ...
You may be shaking your head at this but friends who work in motorcycle shops have shown me such examples. Electrics, too, are often ignored until things go wrong, where simple servicing would have saved any grief. But by far the most abused component is the control cable.
Yes, the simple bits of wire which operate throttles, brakes, clutches, valve lifters, decompressors and chokes on
