A few general questions, probably common knowledge for those who grew on these machines, yet for those of us who didn't, kind of rarely talked about. First wondering if most of you guys tend to hone at home with a drill or drill-press, or send it off to a machine shop? If at home, ball hone sounds like the ticket, any suggestion for which ones you like?

For your typical bike, provided it's jetted correctly and not overheated, how often do you hone the cylinder and put new rings in?

Same situation with the bike running well, any kind of "every xxxx miles, expect to overbore and new rings"?

When I got my 175 it had ~3200 miles on it, I had a first bore, new piston and rings done by Enduronut and am around ~5200 miles now. As he is not handling them at the moment, time to sort things out on my own and it just kind of feels like something probably needs to be attended to, but I'm just shooting in the dark here. It's still running well and has good compression, about ten less than after the rebuild, yet like a lot of the 175 bikes it has some rattle.

So keep on keeping on until there is a problem or is a hone and rings good preventative maintenance?

Thanks!