Sorry for your trouble Duckstrom, some garages only hear what they want hear, rather than what you ask.
This day and age I do not understand why we are having such short valve inspection intervals anyway.
I mean when's the last time you had a valve check on a car engine?
As much as it really goes against the grain for me (IMechE), I could be recommending to my lad to forget valve inspections and get them done when it's in for a valve job / top end rebuild at about 45k?
Which with 6k on the clock (2012 model) and at 3 to 4k miles a year going forward, will be about 10-13years from now (lad is going to be a long term owner, talks about another bike, but as well as the strom, never instead of)...anyway, 1 top end rebuild has got to be cheaper than 3 valve (and maybe adjust) checks?
Rant over, climbing back into hole...