Prince 666.

I said that from the short time with the XTZ that I was delighted, obviously a full opinion on my bike will take a lot more time. I had my last bike 14 years :-)

I have had lots of cars and a few bikes and of course anything will break over time, I hope that a Yamaha will give me a lot less grief than a Chinese bike. I have had quite a few Yamahas and they have all given me great service, I hope that this one is just as good.

What did you do to your Yamaha to get 10kw ? It will be interesting to see if your modifications are similar to my planned ones. You said you had problems with the engine bearings, anything else that gave you trouble ?

I plan to do my own maintainence as I have a lock up storeroom in the car park of the apartment block where I live, I need to work out a reasonable maintainence schedule to keep on top of things, so it would seem reasonable to strip the motor down every 10,000 - 12,000 kms to make sure all is well. I will take a look a good look at the engine bearings and replace with non Chinese ones.

I'll start a separate post on my bike as soon as work allows.

If you aever get down to HuiZhou please look me up, I always happy to share a beer with a fellow biker :-)