I'm still learning my way around here, often trying to find the fastest way to figure out who has answered me and such, so I sometime hit "new posts" to see the latest.

When you read down that list, everyone's bike seems to be busted. I swear if I'd have hit that button before shopping, I'd have run away. But when you look at the forums that get posted in, it's almost never the Hurricane forum. It's always the 600's or something else.

Is this just my imagination? Or are our old bikes pretty amazingly reliable, especially for their age?

 

Yup - combination of youthful exuberance and stupidity breaks bikes - a lot is poor maintenance too. The Hurri's are pretty good - mine's just eaten another camchain, but it was my fault for not fitting a new camtensioner at the same time, and letting a gorilla fit the last one when I wasn't looking
We also don't "thrash" our bikes like some of the youngsters, and that, combined with poor maintenance, stunting etc will break bikes quickly...........
All in all, mine's been a damned good bike..............

 

Well I've gotten two recently, one for me and one for the kid, and they do both have low miles, 19K and 24K, but they sure feel reliable and both have been maintained well. We've ridden them on a bunch of pretty long (for us) and hot trips, and they just purr like kittens (unless to cause them to get fierce).

I'm thinking that the litre bikes have so much power that you don't use much of it very often. So loafing a lot, and changing the oil should make for a nice long relationship.

On the 600's you might be able to "wring their little necks" more often as it isn't so deadly.

 

600s are enough for most people.
Ive been going to a few track days lately and it seems the people
that have offs or get into trouble are all on litre bikes.
A 1000cc is a lot of power on two wheels, a 750 would be as big as id feel happy for my 70kgs . My 600 cane has done 62.600 miles and is still runing great , ive fitted a m/cct and cheaked valve clearences for peace of mind, shes never broken down your canes have a ton of life left .

 

good question, joe.
I think shadow hit on a lot of it. Maybe the 1000F crowd is a little easier on 'em? I don't know. I know I'm not very easy on mine.
I do believe in maintenance, though.

 

Absolutely agree with that, I may poke around town but when I get some
good slab or twisty backroads to run on I let her know what she was made for.

Maintenance is a prerequisite if your goal is to preserve these miracle machines
..............and not that they really take that much looking after
either .............most of us just make sure they're #1 safe #2 able to run
like the wind

 

Yea, and now you need a clutch. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

 

That's just because he doesn't know how to shift, his bike is an old turd, he's probably running the wrong oil, and he refuses to recognize the WD40 gods....

I beat the hell out of mine and it's fine.

 

Apparently , if you soak your clutch in WD40 before you fit it , it extends the life of the clutch

It may also help Sprock find reverse gear at last

 

Interesting....
I wonder if you're on to something there? LOL..


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