Ssky0078
Junior Member
Huh. My Monster 696 ran great for months, ran better than any other bike I've owned, and was the best handling bike I've ever had. Only maintenance I had to do on it was a valve check. 4 bolts to drop the engine completely out of the frame, all done in an hour.
If my wife hadn't complained that it burnt her legs, I'd still be riding it.
So... Yeah. Not sure you know what you're talking about. You honestly sound just like some poser harley d00d talking about jap bikes. "ZOMG, your bike wasn't made in Japan? It must suck!"
Perhaps but I'm planning on the Tuono V4R in a year or two. I want to get a low mileage used one from some guy that scared the sh!t out of himself.
I've only had Yamaha and talk to everybody about their bikes. Like the guy I met who had a Duc 1199s that needed I think he said close to $2,000 in maintenance to do an oil change, valve check and some balancer thing (maybe it was a flux capacitor, I dunno) he was talking about that I wasn't familiar with. The bike was cool looking, but I've heard enough of those stories about the Duc to be scared off.
Glad your Monster worked out for you. That is a cool looking bike.