Do any of you look at

[Marcel]

The cost of regular maintenance to keep the factory warranty alive when you purchase a new motorcycle , or is that though isn't part of your decision  ?  

I still remember when I bought that 950 so many years ago , having the nearest dealer 1 thousand km away ...it wasn't...I was in love with that motorcycle....I knew that I would be  doing the service...

Was reading up on this Ducati street bike...man !!...somone has to be rich to owne one of those...

[Marcel]

The nightmare started when I decided to remove the SAS system and stock muflers...must have lost and entire summer and part of another  one ,trying to make it run right...it's basically how I found myself on OC...

[Catteeclan]

I let the dealers do the first service then I took over. Blue TDM had a recall on the TPS and the XT1200 had a front brake recall of some sort, all free.
There was a deal with the first service that I only paid parts, that offer disappeared with the tracer which will prob be the last bike I'll have.

[Pedro]

I don’t check any of that in detail. I do care if anything that needs to be done regularly takes a lot of time, as with time it’ll eventually be easier to skip it and I hate that. Also I don’t think it’s that good if you have to disassemble a lot of plastics every other oil change, the GS is great for checking valves, 10 minutes of labour to get to them. Also the clutch, but everything else is a faff.

Here there are a lot of Africa Twins and other parallel twins that never had valves checked as it’s such a long process to just get to them. I hate that.

[Marcel]

Yes those boxers are nice for that....the 950 were supposably checked at the first service...tell you the thruth ,I don't believe they  even done it now,  by the amount of time the bike was in the shop...lol....

It's something now I diffetnly check into...looked at a few videos and that valve service on the triumph don't look to complicate at all...not much stuff to remove or required any special tools...it has rocker arms...unlike the ktm engine we're the cam is sitting directly on the bucket shim..needing to remove cams for any shims swop out...