Author Topic: After 10,000 miles touring nine countries, a long list of faults on my 2008 Wee.  (Read 2653 times)

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Offline chris1200

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Err.......hang on I had the list here somewhere......ahh this is it.....
1. My starter/headlight switch played up in Portugal and I had to clean it and put some Vaseline on it.
2..............Err.......I must have written the rest on the other side of the paper.....oh...nothing there.
Humm, it seems that's it.
Sorry.

Offline frez

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You didn't need to puff in the tyres or add fuel?
Now on a Super Tenere having put 64k miles on a 2011 DL650

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Granted blowing up tyres and putting fuel in the tank could (in some parallel perfect universe) be regarded as a "Fault". I suppose solid rubber tyres would have solved one "Fault" and a small warp drive engine would have solved the other "Fault". Has anyone fitted these and if so, where do I get them from, and do I need a flux capacitor?  :)

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The bike sounds like it's scrap. Give it to me for nowt, I'm doing you a favour...

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10000 miles equals 10000 smiles, you must be laughing all the way to the bank. Sometimes less really is more.

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I have had a few bikes in my time but I really don't know what I will do when this thing gives up the ghost. I love it, it is simply the perfect bike for me. I don't even want a new one, I just want to ride this thing until I turn to dust on it. It really has impressed me that much!

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 on my third 650 v strom , just love them . load them up with pillion & luggage and that little engine pulls like a train.. keep changing oil & filter and they will run forever ...

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