'18, '19 Super Ten ES Foibles/Weaknesses??

wjfawb0

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Chattanooga, TN
For now, congratulations on your choice of your next motorcycle because it proves that you can think for yourself and not be swept along by the coffee bar cowboys who are really just development riders for a certain German motorcycle manufacturer. Welcome to the rather exclusive club.
I typically go to two motorcycle rallies every year. They're both put on by BMW clubs. What I learned there, along with my experience working on cars kept me from looking at anything German. I've had five Yamahas in my life, and I haven't had to work on any of them. I just do tires brakes, and oil changes.
 

twinrider

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I’ve got the caps and need to order a another set of LED’s. The last set of LEDs I had died too. Just terrible luck with bulbs. Even my LED 194’s quit this season, lol.
Save yourself some time and trouble and just switch to the Morimoto HID. They're brighter and produce a better focused beam than the LED, and they never die. Had a set for 5 years on my last S10. Tried Cyclops on my current S10 but didn't like the beam pattern or brightness so went to Morimoto again.

https://www.theretrofitsource.com/hid-systems/h7-morimoto-elite.html

TRS10 nets 10 percent off
 

Byron

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Mar 2, 2019
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Saltillo, MS
One thing I wish I had done was replace the guard by your left hand foot. The stock one is just a straight piece of metal and caught my pant leg and I fell over and ended up braking my shoulder blade. I was 200 miles from home after a 7,000 mile ride on my bike from New York to California and back. Thank god for cruise control and people helping me pick up my bike so I could get home...in a lot of pain.
I think alt rider makes a replacement part...which I purchased as soon as I got home. When you look at it on their site you will immediately understand what I am trying to say.
Other than changing oil/tires this bike has been stone reliable. I had almost every kind of bike prior to this one. I had gone through four BMW's prior to this bike. When I first looked at this bike I said....never! Then I drove. Contrary to a lot of complaints I find it to have adequate power an very easy to ride.
If the throttle response is an issue for you the guy in NJ apparently does a great job smoothing it out. It doesn't bother me.

Mr. Pete--------->
aging hippie
I thought about getting a new model but what pushed me to get a GEN 1 was price. If you can do some of the mods that need to be done on the Gen1, you will be in it at half the money, The few people that I know have one, including mine don't have any response issues and it's easy to replace the CCT and clutch basket. You could go all out as I did and get the McCruise cruse control and still be way under the cost of those newer bikes. Just my 2 cents.
 
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