LOL- I live about 5 minutes away from MMS in Marietta- see my thread:
https://www.rc390-forum.com/forum/e...de-blown-rc390-engine-happened.html#post31305
Put the bike up on Craigslist bud and stick with Yamaha/Honda
LOL- I live about 5 minutes away from MMS in Marietta- see my thread:
https://www.rc390-forum.com/forum/e...de-blown-rc390-engine-happened.html#post31305
Put the bike up on Craigslist bud and stick with Yamaha/Honda
Tom
New Member
Hello all, this will be my final post on this forum.
Mountain Motorsports came through for me. They gave me nearly 2 hours of labor for free to repair the bike. If I stuck with repairing the bike, I would have only been out around $260 which is very reasonable for the amount of work they did to pull the retainers and swap in the top end kit that I decided to go with.
That being said, I also went with the 4600 mile maint. and had them install the rekluse clutch. Total labor was $1400. The rekluse clutch was amazing!!! Words can't describe how cool it is to not worry about letting the revs drop too low in a gear, and being able to get moving without having to use the clutch. Such a cool mod, and I honestly think anyone who drives in traffic would really appreciate one.
On the way back from the dealer, the skies opened up with one of the fairly common sun showers we have here in Georgia. If you've never experienced one, it's the equivalent of thunderstorm volumes of rain but the sky is bright and sunny. They come out of no where, and there's nothing that can be done to predict them. At any rate, after making a left turn, the lady in front of me slammed her brakes for god knows why. I tried to avoid her, but wasnt fast enough. The left handle bar clipped the back of her SUV, and sent me sliding behind the bike.
The police put me at fault for following too closely, and with the parts and labor I put into the bike during it's time at the shop, I am out roughly $2,600. With the exhaust, power commander, O2 commander, tidy tail, and LED blinker replacements I have installed over the past year, I am out of a significant chunk of money on top of what this last bill was... But I still have my life.
You can take it for what you want, but this experience opened my eyes to just how dangerous the unpredictability of other drivers makes riding. I'm sad as hell to have only been able to enjoy such a fun piece of machinery for such a short while, but I have too much to lose to swing a leg over another bike. In a perfect world, bikes can be as safe as you make them, but the reality is that bikes are only as safe as the drivers around you are.
Thanks all for the help along the way with my build, and I hope I was able to return the help to a few of you.
Mountain Motorsports came through for me. They gave me nearly 2 hours of labor for free to repair the bike. If I stuck with repairing the bike, I would have only been out around $260 which is very reasonable for the amount of work they did to pull the retainers and swap in the top end kit that I decided to go with.
That being said, I also went with the 4600 mile maint. and had them install the rekluse clutch. Total labor was $1400. The rekluse clutch was amazing!!! Words can't describe how cool it is to not worry about letting the revs drop too low in a gear, and being able to get moving without having to use the clutch. Such a cool mod, and I honestly think anyone who drives in traffic would really appreciate one.
On the way back from the dealer, the skies opened up with one of the fairly common sun showers we have here in Georgia. If you've never experienced one, it's the equivalent of thunderstorm volumes of rain but the sky is bright and sunny. They come out of no where, and there's nothing that can be done to predict them. At any rate, after making a left turn, the lady in front of me slammed her brakes for god knows why. I tried to avoid her, but wasnt fast enough. The left handle bar clipped the back of her SUV, and sent me sliding behind the bike.
The police put me at fault for following too closely, and with the parts and labor I put into the bike during it's time at the shop, I am out roughly $2,600. With the exhaust, power commander, O2 commander, tidy tail, and LED blinker replacements I have installed over the past year, I am out of a significant chunk of money on top of what this last bill was... But I still have my life.
You can take it for what you want, but this experience opened my eyes to just how dangerous the unpredictability of other drivers makes riding. I'm sad as hell to have only been able to enjoy such a fun piece of machinery for such a short while, but I have too much to lose to swing a leg over another bike. In a perfect world, bikes can be as safe as you make them, but the reality is that bikes are only as safe as the drivers around you are.
Thanks all for the help along the way with my build, and I hope I was able to return the help to a few of you.
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=maz=
Member
In a perfect world people learn how to ride a bike.
First it was the brands fault then it was the drivers.
You received an expensive lesson...not as expensive as it could've been but expensive none the less.
What experience do you have that made the reclusive clutch seem like a necessary addition to the bike?
How will you, "...return the help to a few of you." if you are not going to post on the forum again?
First it was the brands fault then it was the drivers.
You received an expensive lesson...not as expensive as it could've been but expensive none the less.
What experience do you have that made the reclusive clutch seem like a necessary addition to the bike?
How will you, "...return the help to a few of you." if you are not going to post on the forum again?
