300 kilometers on the clock now. I'm running it in the old fashion way, steadily but I'm not overly impressed. I can only compare it to my KLX250 as I've not ridden anything bigger. It certainly eats up the miles with less fatigue than the KLX and seems to corner on itself but that seat is weird. it pops off with the turn of a Key a bit like the honda dreams do, but without the pivot. it just comes clean off. seems to move about a bit too much because of it. and the standard KLX seat is more comfy or at least is to me. The Windscreen seems to be purely cosmetic also.
Its had a couple of good reviews from a couple of very experienced riders already on here so my experience is perhaps less significant.
I thought I was being a bit hard on the Customer service thing with the rant. So I went back yesterday morning with an open mind. got one of the mechanics to alter the Clutch pedal height as I couldn't use it with my boots. he took a good look at it and it was clear he hadn't done one before, but he did a good Job when he'd figured it out. nice way with the tools, wasn't the sort to round off the nuts sort of thing.
bumped into the Guy who we first placed the order with. The Salesman. I put aside the fact we had spoke to him on the telephone about 15 times due to some confusion over the colour we had ordered and the fact he had done nothing about it as we still had the wrong colour on the order form, which wasn't really a problem in the end as we just stole someone elses Black one from the non existent order book Queue.
Anyway, I asked him how to set the Clock on the bike, seemed a shame not to have it right as it was 3 hours out.
he showed me how, easy when you know how. anyway, he has a nice analog type watch. I could see the little hand was between 8 and 9, and the big hand was on 30 or half past , and remembering from my youth that the time was 8:30 .
He sets the Clock to 9:30, I have to back track and thing wether we were on some daylight savings thing or something, anyway, I ask him what the time is in Thai and english. its 9:30 in his world. OK, I look at his watch again and it says 8:30, it was clear he wasn't going to budge so I ask someone else who luckily for my sanity was on the same planet as me and we bully him into accepting the time in our world. pretty Scary to me but I guess I'm sensitive and a farang to boot and will never understand the Thai ways.
If anyone has any info on why the First 1000k service will cost 3200 baht I'd be interested. It's not information that is going to be freely available to me as many faces have been lost and I'm probably persona non grata
