Reset low tire pressure warning?

[RBX QB]

I have to agree with this. This manual is worse than any I have had. Honda manuals were always top notch, and my 1986 Kawasaki ZX1000R manual was much better than the one that came with the Concours. Something went awry with their manual translating efforts. I wonder if they tried to automate the process rather than use human translators.

Didn't someone discover that the newer manuals ('12+) have a better translation? I'm too busy (ie "lazy) to go find it in the forum.

[maxtog]

Didn't someone discover that the newer manuals ('12+) have a better translation? I'm too busy (ie "lazy) to go find it in the forum.

That was me.  I discovered they fixed a few of the more infamous errors.  However, once I started digging into it again, it turned out to be largely unchanged.  The quote I made, above, was from the 2013 manual.

I mean, really, although some sections are muddy and would need clarification, I could "fix" the rest of the entire manual in probably just a day or two, it is not like it would cost them that much.

[MAN OF BLUES]

@$200 a pop that would be expensive toilet paper. Not to mention liability for paper cuts......

[B.D.F.]

Of course they could have done better. I even have a pretty good idea why they did not but would not voice that thought. Back to the point though, I do not think it is that bad and I have not been thrown yet, that I know of, in taking the information away from the manual. I also freely admit to using it much more as a general guide than an exact document and feel free to violate whatever it might specify when I disagree with it.

But again, overall, I think the C-14 is a great bike and is a pleasure to own. If I have to take a bit of pain, and all of us always do have to take <some> amount of pain, better it is in the poor language skills used in the writing of the manual rather than the poor assembly skills of the handbar installers. 

I think we would all like utter perfection. I personally am happy with the nearest thing to it, which is day- to- day life.

Brian

Actually, there are times I really don't know what they are trying to say.  And although amusing, at times, it can be rather frustrating and slow to read.  I do wish they would have paid someone to do a PROPER translation.  There is no excuse for this from a major company like Kawasaki and in this century.