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Go through the owners manual and do as many of the items as you can.  Anything you can't do yourself can be passed off to a mechanic or a more mechanically inclined friend, but make sure it <i>all</i> gets done.
Go through the owners manual and do as many of the items as you can.  Anything you can't do yourself can be passed off to a mechanic or a more mechanically inclined friend, but make sure it <i>all</i> gets done.


===But why?===
====But why?====


Each of the items in that list was carefully selected by Kawasaki engineers as being an important thing to check at 500 miles.  They didn't choose those things because they like making work for their mechanics or for you.
Each of the items in that list was carefully selected by Kawasaki engineers as being an important thing to check at 500 miles.  They didn't choose those things because they like making work for their mechanics or for you.