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The new R1 is sweeet!

 

aaawww yeeeaaa!, that thing is sooo sick! that new color is beautiful


[Modified by WishIHadANiceCarToo, 3:41 AM 3/1/2002]

 

mehhhh. Thats all i have to say. Just mehhhh. Ive never been into Yammys

 

I'm an equal opertunity rider Look very nice. What's not to like??? Please fill me in.

 

lack of quality control. They tend to rush things to the market without the great product they are advertising... The Raptor is a perfect example.. We call it the Craptor becasue they suck so much...

Too many changes. They change stuff so much year to year that you almsot have to buy a new bike to keep with a year model difference. Not a good business tactic. Why buy Model X when next year Model X will come with added extras for the same price? This happens over and over again...

Lack of quality in components used. Many times I get the same Yammy part broken and I cant replace it becasue the rest of the world broken theirs as well. So it sits on back order for months and I am the one who has the problem and has to deal with impatient customers? Take it up with Yamaha and their lack of quality parts pal. But what do they do? Rather than warrenty a bad part, they let it run out and get people angry at them.

I cant speak for other companies, but i can defend my favorite. Honda had a problem with a select lot of 929 clutches lat year. Rather than make the consumer pay for the new parts like Yammy would, they warrentied ALL 929s from that year. That how you do business. This was not a safty issue either. It was a bad lot of plates that had bad waer properties. They also strengthend a couple other parts free of charge. Also their contacts are rude and obnoxious. I dont care for their styling and have found most R1 owners think their **** dont stink!!!

Thats my beef with Yamaha. Any more question? Ill be happy to answer them.

 

Thanks, good stuff.

 

i need new pants... Thats it right there!!!

 

I like mine betta,

 

Have you done any maintenance on 954s yet? That filter is a biatch to get off behind the header pipe. I could find no good tool for this as the cap type wrench had no clearance in front of the filter and behind the pipe. (cowlings stayed on )

 

Not yet, but I can take a look... Honda hasnt sent us any tools either... Ill ask the service manager and see what he thinks..

 

the shop manual AND the owners manual say to take off the cowling, but I refuse to do this cause I'm lazy. I got if off by SQUEEZING the cap wrench past the filter and the header pipe. But it was scary thinking I would trap the filter by doing this.

It was also a houdini act getting the filter out, but with a few girations and some good cussing, it eventually was coaxed out. I used clean latex gloved hands to put the new filter back on and torque to 20ftlbs tested the bike under load and no leaks.


[Modified by figment, 4:42 PM 3/1/2002]

 

I had the same trouble. I bought a few diifernt types of tools, none worked because of the limited access.

 

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those bikes are sodamn sick!!!!

 

saw that one in person, that bike color is awsome
ill take an R6 please!