Re: [ST] Valve adjustments

[Blake Sobiloff <sobiloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bird, Garry wrote:

> Is anybody doing their own valve adjustments?


Not yet, but once my warranty is up in September (next month, already!) 
I'll consider it.

I just spent a few minutes doing a comparison of running costs between 
my car and my bike. My bike is actually more expensive per mile than my 
car -- $0.1229/mi. vs. $0.1138/mi. (respectively). Wheras gas is %72 of 
the cost/mile for my car, it's only 35% for the ST. 50% of the cost of 
the ST is in tires, and almost 30% of that cost is in the mounting and 
balancing. (Seems like a strong argument for getting a tire changing 
machine.)

If I can cut the labor costs associated with the ST maintenance it'll be 
much more economical. Hence, I'm looking at doing my own valves at the 
24K service interval.

(I can send the spreadsheet to anyone else who may want to do similar 
calculations.)

- -- 
Blake "Dawgbert" Sobiloff <sobiloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Burlingame, CA, USA



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