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- May 26, 2015
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- 2012 R3R
I’ll start off by saying my bike is a 2012 Roadster with about 4,500 miles on it. I’ve put around 200 miles on it myself. The bike was purchased as a leftover on 4/2014, so it’s still under warranty until 4/2016. Here’s a few things I’ve noticed in my short ownership.
1.) The heat shield bracket that connects the heat shield where the manifold comes in to one and the next heat shield piece has sheared in half. I noticed a pretty loud rattle every time I hit a bump. I decided to check it out Saturday and found that that heat shield piece could easily be pushed in. I took the bolt out and got under it and couldn’t find anything that the bolt was threading in to. After a few minutes of thinking WTF, I found the bottom half of the broken bracket wedged up in the upper part of the heat shield. Not a huge deal but pretty annoying to spend the most you’ve ever spent on a motorcycle just to have it rattle every time you hit a small bump.
2.) This will be a 3 part because I believe they’re all related:
A.) I’ve only ridden the bike for about 200 miles, and it’s stalled on me twice so far. Both stalls occurred while decelerating. In fact, both were while I was decelerating in second gear and pulled the clutch in. The bike was fully warmed up during both occurrences and actually happened towards the tail end of the ride both times.
B.) The bike sometimes has an erratic idle. It will go anywhere as low as 500 and up to about 1K. Again, it will do this while fully warmed up.
C.) I use my engine for braking. When I downshift, I’ll blip the throttle to rev match so not to lock the back tire up. Sometimes when I blip the throttle to rev match, I get a back fire from the bear claw section.
3.) The rear brake gets excessively hot. I do not use it hard. I do not ride the brake. I probably split the braking 80% front 20% rear. It was so hot on the one ride that I smelled it while sitting at a red light and just assumed it was the POS car in front of me. However, I pulled it in the garage and could quickly smell that it was indeed my rear brake. It gets so hot you can’t even put a finger on it for more than a second. The front brakes will be warm to the touch but you can rest your hand on them for as long as you’d like. The bike just had new tires put on it. Did someone reassemble something incorrectly?
Also, I don’t believe this is an issue, but I figured I’d ask. This is my first shaft drive bike. Whenever I’m in first gear going slow and I pull the clutch in, I can hear a solid “click” like sound. I am assuming this is because the shaft drive is engaging and disengaging?
Here’s the kicker. The gentleman I bought it from works as a technician at a car dealership. Naturally, no technician wants to hand an oil change over to someone when he is fully capable himself. He did the first service and another oil change himself, and did not fill out the log book. Will this hurt my chances of getting anything fixed under warranty? How does one go about filing a warranty claim? Thanks for listening guys and I look forward to your input.
1.) The heat shield bracket that connects the heat shield where the manifold comes in to one and the next heat shield piece has sheared in half. I noticed a pretty loud rattle every time I hit a bump. I decided to check it out Saturday and found that that heat shield piece could easily be pushed in. I took the bolt out and got under it and couldn’t find anything that the bolt was threading in to. After a few minutes of thinking WTF, I found the bottom half of the broken bracket wedged up in the upper part of the heat shield. Not a huge deal but pretty annoying to spend the most you’ve ever spent on a motorcycle just to have it rattle every time you hit a small bump.
2.) This will be a 3 part because I believe they’re all related:
A.) I’ve only ridden the bike for about 200 miles, and it’s stalled on me twice so far. Both stalls occurred while decelerating. In fact, both were while I was decelerating in second gear and pulled the clutch in. The bike was fully warmed up during both occurrences and actually happened towards the tail end of the ride both times.
B.) The bike sometimes has an erratic idle. It will go anywhere as low as 500 and up to about 1K. Again, it will do this while fully warmed up.
C.) I use my engine for braking. When I downshift, I’ll blip the throttle to rev match so not to lock the back tire up. Sometimes when I blip the throttle to rev match, I get a back fire from the bear claw section.
3.) The rear brake gets excessively hot. I do not use it hard. I do not ride the brake. I probably split the braking 80% front 20% rear. It was so hot on the one ride that I smelled it while sitting at a red light and just assumed it was the POS car in front of me. However, I pulled it in the garage and could quickly smell that it was indeed my rear brake. It gets so hot you can’t even put a finger on it for more than a second. The front brakes will be warm to the touch but you can rest your hand on them for as long as you’d like. The bike just had new tires put on it. Did someone reassemble something incorrectly?
Also, I don’t believe this is an issue, but I figured I’d ask. This is my first shaft drive bike. Whenever I’m in first gear going slow and I pull the clutch in, I can hear a solid “click” like sound. I am assuming this is because the shaft drive is engaging and disengaging?
Here’s the kicker. The gentleman I bought it from works as a technician at a car dealership. Naturally, no technician wants to hand an oil change over to someone when he is fully capable himself. He did the first service and another oil change himself, and did not fill out the log book. Will this hurt my chances of getting anything fixed under warranty? How does one go about filing a warranty claim? Thanks for listening guys and I look forward to your input.