You've got to run at a VERY slow pace to get 89 mpg. I'd be surprised
if that bike has even sniffed 6000 before you got it. I think it
needs some serious thrashing. It's clearly as tight as a duck's arse.
You definitely need to compare it, and get it compared to other W's
because with all due respect, you are sounding increasingly paranoid
about stuff that so far sounds entirely normal.
The gearboxes are NOT butter smooth in these bikes. They are
certainly not as bad as the air-cooled Beemers and 850cc
Guzzis...Those bikes really crunched as you shifted out of first. The
trouble is, your Yams have awesome shifts, I know, I've ridden a few,
but big torquey twins have a fair amount of metal in their gearboxes.
I have to say that the W's gearbox isn't as failsafe as say my
SR500's was and using it clutchless will result in a false neutral or
so, but aybe you are treating it like it has glass cogs or something.
If you can get it down here you can take mnine out and I'll ride
yours. We should be able to allay your fears re reliability at least.
Whether you'll want to keep the bike after that is something only
you'll know!
#Jon
My graunches from cold if the revs are too high, but once on the
move
it is is fine, however once it is warmed up then the gearchange gets
worse.
The whining noise at 3.5k revs seems to coming from the LH side of
the
engine, surely that isn't bevel noise there is it?. My bike is
whisper
quiet at cold, has the 3.5k rev whine (didn't notice when this
started, whether cold or warm) and then once warm sounds like a bag
of
nails from the bevel area.
I accept that it hasn't been run hard very often, as, whilst the
bloke
said he had seen 85 on the clock, he kept a record of mpg, which
showed a low of 67mpg and a high of 89mph, with his average being
about 75mpg...
