The (BTW well intended) constant reminding & repeating on throughout checks of specific items origins in the fact that many ST's suffer from lack of maintenance, be it by their owner and/or sloppy shop personnel, simply due to their reputation of "being bulletproof"...
I too often receive 'the stare' for remarking "you should fix that" by an attendee at a Gathering simply over spotting things like dark-green residue that had dripped off the clutch armature on his bike... brass bushing in the lever worn/oval, brass insert nearly through, rubber dust boot disintegrated, the whole kinematic dry and weathered down by the elements...
Often this then spins into a conversation that grows into a visual, even manual inspection of his bike, which "unearths" even more issues, the owner was in total bliss over...
Other owners again might simply tell me to P_off...
