| Author | Message | ||
     Svmotoman |
New starter on 2 week old CityX with 252 miles on odometer (took dealer 2.5 weeks to get it all taken care of - grrr). Manufacturer defect I guess, anyone else had the problem? I dread thinking about how many parts they had to remove to fix it. I asked if they had any bolts left over.. ha. Anyway, 43 mile ride home from dealer was a joy... forgot all about my troubles over last 2.5 weeks (and all about the many good riding days I missed). Now I can finish the break-in, of course trying not to break anything else!!! :-) Thanks for the moral support guys. | ||
| Pa_xb9sx |
The only problem I have had is a slight dampness of oil on the primary cover, and I have over 1,800 miles. That issue was resolved during the 1,000 mile service. Everyone knew you would forget about the downtime after riding it. Enjoy!! | ||
| Stou |
I didn't ride a lot because of the weather but I got now 550km and no problem on my XB9SX. | ||
| Cataract2 |
7500 miles and no problems. About time for a new rear tire though.... sigh.... | ||
| Reepicheep |
Glad it finally got worked out SV Man... Now go ride that thing! | ||
| Ejiii |
I have 2000mi with a failed front brake light switch at 1000mi. It was a $13 part. I installed it myself at my cost. It was a warranty item but to go through the dealer drama for that was not an option for me. | ||
| Danvetc |
At 2200 miles, only issue is intermittent tach/speedo sweep on turn key. Always eventually kicks on during ride and dealer did not find anything wrong at 1K check up. This is a great motorcycle. Mine is undergoing a make over for a track school in 2 weeks, (Crossroads bars and Pirelli Diablo Corsa tires.) Fun part is it can be switched back to the CityX mode at whim. Charlie | ||
| Reepicheep |
Curious, my 9sx tach is the same way. Always works fine after the sweep though. Reminds me of my first bike, an old yamaha, that would do the same thing (but I would have to give it a whack to get the tach to eventually move). | ||
| Danvetc |
Reep, You have one of the new ones, mine's a classic made back in '04, (back when they knew how to make a real bike.) | ||
| Arkane |
my 05 xb9sx does the same as well,espesially after a cold,or rainy night,monday i finally got to see the tach coming to life about 4 miles into my commute to work and i think it's a good indicator of the problem,as the tach came to life it registered about 10% of my actual rpm ie: 5000 showed 500rpm for about 1 mile then the tach started functioning normally,so it's a signal strength issue ,either a wet connection or a connection that does not make contact until heat expands the connection making positive contact,i lil dielectric grease should check out the wet connection which i am guessing it is does that sound right to you folks? | ||
| Metalstorm |
Weak signal strength and/or wet connection makes sense. My Sporty's speedo stopped working once. I discovered that when I had put the gas tank on I pinched the wire. As soon as I freed it the speedo worked perfect again so I'm leaning toward signal strength. I'd have a dealer check it out just to make them aware of this problem. |
