08-19-2014, 04:40 AM
(08-19-2014, 02:35 AM)RetroSeattle_imp Wrote: It's really a great bike, especially for short trips around town. Great engine, brilliant handling. If you read the forums there are some people grumpy about the lean fuel injection setup, but I've had no problems. The people who do hard core off road work don't like the air box/filter but i don't care as my riding is all on the road.
Many of the dealers are kind of ignoring the bikes since they are a bit of an orphan. However, they are basically BMWs in pretty italian clothing so any BMW dealer should be able to do the service. I've had hit and miss luck in getting parts but no big deal so far. The one thing I am unhappy about is that checking and adjusting the valves is not at all easy. The designer of this bike clearly placed styling as a higher priority than ease of servicing....
The "lean fuel injection" cliché has become ridiculously overplayed on the interwebs. If there were really so many bikes shipped from the factory with bad fuel injection mapping, the manufacturers would have gone under with warranty claims.
I think it's one of those stories that gets passed around because sounds good. It's got the evil government behind it, and it explains poor riding habits and poorly done mods. Even the CB, with one of the flattest, smoothest torque lines ever produced, gets credit for "lean fuel mapping." I've tried pretty hard to make the CB's FI act up, and if I really, really work at it, I can get it to surge a bit. But with anything close to normal riding, it doesn't.