I would like to know how many here did their own valve clearance check at 15k miles and found one of more valves grossly out of adjustment. Most of the time they are still well within specified range.
Moot point.
He is talking stretching to 28k, and doing 5000 miles of trips in a back to back jaunt, before even looking.
I still maintain that the MAJORITY of us here that
did the service ourselves, found the need to make compensations. Most of the folks that took them to dealers were told the bike is "fine", and very few have an actual map of measurements from said dealers to prove it. I can pretty much gurantee everyone that did thier own work, has documentation of the actual measurements, and what now lives inside the engine.
There did at one time exist a poll, showing our responses on what was found and when, I don't have time to find that thread.
oh, make sure you change that air filter before the trip also....most folks don't touch it untill they do the valves, and @ 20k, it does need an air filter....