Maintenance - schedule or whenever?

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Originally Posted by Gas Man

Do you think you know better than they do?

Not better than them. We have competing interests, The manufacturer wants me to service my bike at an authorized service shop for everything, they expect a majority of the people to have a shop do their servicing. This keeps their dealership network open. yes their service schedule is going to be very conservative. There are plenty of other reasons why they make their service intervals so short.

But i also say that with the understanding that I dont own a bike that has a super crazy service schedule. If I had a duc, yes I would be much more dilligent about servicing it, checking the valves every 150 miles and such. Being that I have a honda I believe I can stretch the service interval out a wee bit.