Bike Owners Manuals
Discussion
I have owned several brands of motorcycle during my illustrious biking career - each machine has come with some form of owners manual, some good, some utterly useless.
Brief résumé:
KTM: excellent, clear instructions, including decent diagrams, torque settings for literally every fastener, how to change oil & so on
Kawasaki: most of the book droning on about health & safety & the risk of motorcycling = guaranteed death. It doesn't even tell you the torque setting for the rear wheel nut, so how can you even adjust the chain? Take it to a dealer??
Honda & Yamaha seem to be somewhere in-between, but pretty useless.
Anybody have experience with other brands?
Brief résumé:
KTM: excellent, clear instructions, including decent diagrams, torque settings for literally every fastener, how to change oil & so on
Kawasaki: most of the book droning on about health & safety & the risk of motorcycling = guaranteed death. It doesn't even tell you the torque setting for the rear wheel nut, so how can you even adjust the chain? Take it to a dealer??
Honda & Yamaha seem to be somewhere in-between, but pretty useless.
Anybody have experience with other brands?
Speaking as a dealer, I can tell you why some of the manuals are useless, it's because they know 99.9% don't read them !
I've had lots of conversations along the line of "the petrol gauge doesn't work, it just stays in the middle when I fill up"
"That's because it's the temperature gauge"
I've had lots of conversations along the line of "the petrol gauge doesn't work, it just stays in the middle when I fill up"
"That's because it's the temperature gauge"
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