motor cycle reliability

reliability of your r3

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30000 + miles and my mistress has been faithful.
Hope I haven't spoke too soon.
May need to go cuddle with her right now. Tell her what she wants to hear. Buy her some ethanol free fuel.
She's a 10.
 
Never seen you clean your bike Dave
 
33000 miles & forever in the dealers with alarm & non starting issues. Can't blame the bike for that, new alarm & new battery cured it all so it gets. 9 from me.
 
Rocket Scientist
You don't give a fellow 2005 owner much confidence in the dependability of another 2005. I bought mine with 7200 miles on it and it was in and out of the shop for a year and a half for the high idle issue. I have no clue on the update kit although I do know where the former owner works and could call him but just don't feel like I need to bother him. So far bike hasn't left me walking and never locked up in any corners but it shifts great and is running like it should now thanks to some help from Scott. Guess I will give mine about an 8........ Al
 
It's a Triumph!!!!The GRINN EFFECT is worth a 10!!!
 
5 and a bit years of riding every day and only once have I needed to call for assistance when a wire to the ignition burnt out. Was an easy fix though and I was mobile again in about 20 mins. Have had some running issues of late but it still always starts every time and the worst I can say is that sometimes it runs just OK. The rest of the time it's brilliant. Totally reliable and dependable. It has gone through 1 throttle cable, 1clutch cable and a cam cover gasket in 70,000 km. even when the throttle cable broke I was able to get home on idle.

Maybe I'm just dead lucky or perhaps a function of how I care for them as well as where I live, but apart from a dud battery I endured for too long in an old Valiant when I was 18 or so I've never had a vehicle of any description let me down much at all. Even my first car (a Mini) was no trouble as long as I had a regular supply of oil and avoided puddles.
 
I gave it a 7, due to the tranny ****ting the bed, up til that point I would have said 9 or 10. If it was an unusual problem I'd have gone a bit higher, but it's not.
 
Well, I barely have mine broken in at only 2000 miles and so far I've had to have the GPS replaced. Today I just finished installing the Eastern Beaver headlight relay which makes sense from an electrical standpoint. I'm a big one to plan ahead for the common things that might go wrong, so I'm working on a game plan to insure my future riding enjoyment and reliability. I haven't been stranded on a bike since my Ariel 500 dropped a valve out in the middle of nowhere!

With all that said (and I'll probably catch hell from several for this comment), but I'm beginning to think a lot of the problems posted here on the forum are self inflicted. Poor electrical system maintenance for one, over modifying and ECU tunes being at the top of the list. The earlier bikes from all appearances had some flaws, but there is a limited to performance and stress that can be put on the engine and drive train. Yup...it's big and bad, but there is a breaking point in spite of the bikes size and potential. I'm still going to be optimistic and give my stock...(except for the GIPro upgrade)... R3T a 10.
 

Mine leads a charmed life as far as maintenance goes.