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Hi Duff, I have been through this nightmare with the 2012 nc700s clutch system. I never fully resolved it, by the way. Long story short, what solved it was spending $$$ on a new OEM set of fibres, steels, judder spring and seat, and springs, and paid a mechanic to install it. Also installed a...

Looks like a big rear brake "oh shit" moment I came across a rider on my way home from work a couple of years ago. He was thrown about 20 metres off his bike into a suburban artificial lake. He appears to have reached highway speeds in a shopping centre carpark. High on meth life, Attire...

Hey Birdman, versys 300x is a decent choice, and underrated bike IMO. Its biggest faults are the odd tire sizes (requiring tubes IIRC) and the engine is higher maintenance than the nc700. Don't get me wrong, they are very reliable bikes, and there are plenty of ninja 300 riders who take these...

Re: hydraulic lifters, here's an interesting case study/anecdote Hyundai switched from hydraulic to solid lifters on their beta engine around 2003. The reasons they cited: -cheaper production costs -lighter valve train mass It's an interesting engineering tradeoff, keeping in mind...

It's very clever design to make a valve train that becomes noisy with wear - my Toyota echo has solid shimbuckets that only need to be checked if they are noisy. It's an excellent engineering technique which is done by making the valve train relatively softer than the valve seats, so wear opens...

Interesting thread. I've noticed a similar issue on my 2012 nc700s manual: -its possible to 'catch' the fuel injection if you gently let the clutch out before opening the throttle, if you do it 20 times it might stall once. It's almost like you're catching the engine when both cylinders are on...

It's just a scooter without any of the practicality of a scooter? I also chuckled at "the new ‘twist and go’ throttle feature" how many millions of 110cc CVT scooters have been manufactured to date? Hundreds of millions maybe? There's nothing wrong with a cheap scooter but the marketing spin...

Yes, it's totally fine, the engine has a wide range of acceptable load/RPM combinations. You will burn a little more fuel in lower gears, that's all. The automatic bikes have it in 6th gear by about 40 mph, so 2000 RPM upwards must be an acceptable cruising speed for these engines. It's a...

Part of the issue is that "lugging" is a poorly defined. Is it WOT at low rpm? How low exactly? Would WOT at 3000 rpm be considered lugging? What about low RPM but light throttle? Or low RPM light throttle but low vacuum and high load? Is idling the engine at high elevation technically lugging...

+1 buy a centre stand When I've had to lift the front wheel as well, I put heavy weights in the top box, Then some softwood on my jack before jacking up the cat converter. It's bad practice and risks crushing the cat but there's nowhere else to jack from.

I think 670cc summed it up perfectly here: Heavy ass dad bikes with 100 HP are simultaneously overkill, and boring, the concept has been mass produced since at least the 1980s Too heavy, too complex, too slow, not enough of a touring bike, not really sporty either, but you can vaporise your...

The K 12,13, and 16 bikes are complicated, not very reliable and are hostile to the mechanic to work on. Just one example, changing the spark plugs requires a coolant drain and refill which requires a special coolant pump to refill again and then you need a dealer tool to reset the service...

It's also a cost thing, Its cheaper and simpler to machine and assemble shim-and-bucket heads. Manufacturing and installing a rocker arm assembly is a few extra steps of precision machining, pressing, aligning, adjusting. Shim type valve trains are lighter overall and less rotating mass, and...

That's the truth - industry and customers place too much focus on first ride reviews, showroom appeal, and gee-whiz doodad marketing. Holistic long term ownership has gone out the window. I don't know about goldwings, but I've personally done the valve adjustments (with shims) on the following...

Experience and a stubborn attitude means I like to fix my own stuff at home. My old yamaha trx850 had a shim-under-bucket 5 valve head. That experience has put me off shim-type valvetrains for good. The constant camshaft removal, shilly shallying measuring, calculating, swapping, and sourcing...

I found a huge difference in brake performance when changing brands and compounds of brake pad. Current pad = goldfren touring organic = borderline dangerous, mushy, needs 4 fingers to stop. Previous pads = EBC or vesrah sintered HH = crisp and powerful two finger stops. There's no free lunch...

I find that the NC has very uneven airflow through the filter. When I remove a dirty one, it looks like maybe 1/3rd of the filter media has been clogged, whilst the outer edges of the filter are clean. The NC has compromised flow through the airbox. Whereas my car evenly uses its entire air...

Likely battery as other have said. If not, it could be a corroded contact in the Killswitch, clutch switch, or sidestand switch that is making intermittent contact.

Good question, hydraulic brakes are a pain in the ass whenever you crack the system open - I got lucky this time and it was fairly ok. You will need: -New dot 4 brake fluid -60mL syringe (try a vet or pharmacy) -from memory, 3mm and 5mm clear vinyl tubing. Smaller tube fits on the syringe...

I think so, the amount of rise and pullback on the X is about halfway between the S and the CTX. If the clutch cables on the S, X, and CTX are all compatible (with different lengths), And the brake lines are compatible between the S and CTX are compatible (with different lengths) I think it's...