This is what your hoses will look like when you get near 20,000 miles! Replace them!
Why did I do this? Well my Aprilia had more miles on the clock than most when I bought it. I could see some coolant leaking out a little just under the engine out of the fairing. This is bad news! So I removed the lower fairings and doubled up on the hose clamps for the time being. The fix worked but it wasn't right. So what better time to replace these hoses than now that I have it all apart. Here is what they looked like. They are completely bulbing out and showing a lot of fatigue.
The junction of hoses on the right hand side was leaking right at the clamps. I just cranked them down temporarily and got in another 500 miles before my mishap. Next I yanked all the hoses off. The factory clamps that are compressed on I just used a Dremel tool to cut them off nice and quick. Job done:
Look how old and nasty these look! They just expand near the clamps really bad. I'm sure they wouldn't really explode on me but they just deform enough to leak occasionally, not cool.
