eemsreno
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I find it hilarious that some guys think they are experts on this bike and haven't rode it 10,000 miles over years of ownership.
As far as riding the bike a lot, I don't feel like I ride mine all that much. I almost never get in a vehicle unless I'm hauling my dirt bikes, but I just don't feel like I get to ride all that much. My granddaughters get upset every time I go on a trip, they ask Michelle why I don't want to be with them. So big trips are few and far between. I'm hoping Michelle and I get to go for a 10 day trip after summer heat is gone. But that will be on the 2017 Tenere. She wanted to ride all day on our 40th wedding anniversary this weekend but now it's looking rainy. I told her we could load up the 1979 XS1100 and retrace our honeymoon trip but that was a big NO.
Back to maintenance.
I just had to replace my fork bushings for the first time at 210,000. they developed some play even though they still looked good. [the coating wasn't wore through]
My 2012 rear shock started leaking at around 115,000 miles so now I am running the stock rear shock off my 2017 and the 17 has a really good aftermarket shock on it.
They say to never run the tank out of fuel or it could damage the fuel pump. well I have been guilty of major fuel pump abuse then, I don't even want to tell you that story, lets just say after shaking the tank many times to keep it running I finally couldn't get it to go any further. Still going strong with the original pump.
I'm still on the original front wheel bearing, and yes they have been under water many many times. I think that I counted 26 big creek or river crossing that we did on that one trip to Alaska in 2015.
I haven't replaced any suspension linkage parts or steering head bearings.
I have replaced the clutch plates but not because it was slipping but because I got it hot [I was stuck] and it got draggy after that.
It still doesn't work as good as the 17 clutch but that the price of having fun.
I did replace the throttle cables just to be safe and when I did I found one of them starting to fray. So that is something to do once and a while.
Of course the ABS pump failed a long time ago, when I removed that plastic tray stuff under the seat I found the pump was living in a swamp. So it may not be all the pumps fault that it failed , It was easy to just bypass the pump so now I have great brakes they just are not anti lock and no linked brakes anymore. I actually have a spare pump from a wrecked bike that I picked up for parts but it was living in a swamp also so even if I installed it on my bike it probably would have a very limited life span.
I had to replace the stick coils at around 175,000 miles, One of the cylinders just would not fire all at once [with no pre bad running conditions] I replaced the coil that was bad but it still missed until it warmed up so I replaced the other coil on the same cylinder and that fixed it so I just went ahead and replaced all 4 coils with my wrecked bikes coils.
The stator failed at around 170,000 and would not charge anymore. This is something everyone should keep an eye on because all oil bath stators will fail sooner or later and could leave you stranded.
Hope this helps.
Steve
As far as riding the bike a lot, I don't feel like I ride mine all that much. I almost never get in a vehicle unless I'm hauling my dirt bikes, but I just don't feel like I get to ride all that much. My granddaughters get upset every time I go on a trip, they ask Michelle why I don't want to be with them. So big trips are few and far between. I'm hoping Michelle and I get to go for a 10 day trip after summer heat is gone. But that will be on the 2017 Tenere. She wanted to ride all day on our 40th wedding anniversary this weekend but now it's looking rainy. I told her we could load up the 1979 XS1100 and retrace our honeymoon trip but that was a big NO.
Back to maintenance.
I just had to replace my fork bushings for the first time at 210,000. they developed some play even though they still looked good. [the coating wasn't wore through]
My 2012 rear shock started leaking at around 115,000 miles so now I am running the stock rear shock off my 2017 and the 17 has a really good aftermarket shock on it.
They say to never run the tank out of fuel or it could damage the fuel pump. well I have been guilty of major fuel pump abuse then, I don't even want to tell you that story, lets just say after shaking the tank many times to keep it running I finally couldn't get it to go any further. Still going strong with the original pump.
I'm still on the original front wheel bearing, and yes they have been under water many many times. I think that I counted 26 big creek or river crossing that we did on that one trip to Alaska in 2015.
I haven't replaced any suspension linkage parts or steering head bearings.
I have replaced the clutch plates but not because it was slipping but because I got it hot [I was stuck] and it got draggy after that.
It still doesn't work as good as the 17 clutch but that the price of having fun.
I did replace the throttle cables just to be safe and when I did I found one of them starting to fray. So that is something to do once and a while.
Of course the ABS pump failed a long time ago, when I removed that plastic tray stuff under the seat I found the pump was living in a swamp. So it may not be all the pumps fault that it failed , It was easy to just bypass the pump so now I have great brakes they just are not anti lock and no linked brakes anymore. I actually have a spare pump from a wrecked bike that I picked up for parts but it was living in a swamp also so even if I installed it on my bike it probably would have a very limited life span.
I had to replace the stick coils at around 175,000 miles, One of the cylinders just would not fire all at once [with no pre bad running conditions] I replaced the coil that was bad but it still missed until it warmed up so I replaced the other coil on the same cylinder and that fixed it so I just went ahead and replaced all 4 coils with my wrecked bikes coils.
The stator failed at around 170,000 and would not charge anymore. This is something everyone should keep an eye on because all oil bath stators will fail sooner or later and could leave you stranded.
Hope this helps.
Steve