The update.
Had the forks done at P&H yesterday, took a while, yet have to say great service manager, had a look around the showroom (another update for that story
), read some bike magazines, fell asleep on the couch for an hour then was told:
- the forks have been out at some point (in an inquiring kind of bad way)
- one of the forks had 100mm of oil MISSING!
- its been tested and all good now
- head race bearings all checked to right torque settings (don't know if they checked the actual bearings though)
Off i go, stop at the junction, "clunk", what, no wait, that'll be the pads bedding in, off up the motorways home as had something i need to get back to. stop outside my garage 'clunk', hmm that doesn't sound right. put on the brakes and push the suspension up and down, 'clunk, clunk, clunk' WTF!!!! a different kind of noise to the bag of spanners the forks felt like, yet none the less a 'clunk'.
I called P&H and they said all was OK, they can make some noises, and if the 'clunk' was out of the norm their guy would've noticed as he's a qualified Ohlins guy. even so they said pop back in and they'll go over it again for me no charge. i'll do that friday maybe on the way to a client meeting as its 40 miles out of my way!
Now my buddy JT and i checked the break callipers, pads (didn't check the sizes or get them out so will do that today as they could be wrong) the discs and all seemed OK.
i'm going to get the misses to video what I'm doing to send off to Jordan bikes; i know Kwackers are awesome bikes, yet clearly not this one. i've had enough now, i want rid, i'm sure its nothing serious yet
after 3 months ownership and not really being able to ride it I'm done now. shame its a great bike, awesome engine, that QS i fitted is sublime and it handles like a 600 yet i've unfortunately grown to hate it.
I've emailed Jordans, updated them (they called me straight away yet i was out so couldn't talk, will do Tuesday) and have started to say i want rid of it, they've been ever so helpful in getting the broken fairing parts to me to fit and the forks issue so i can't fault that, it's a one off and just unlucky i guess. i'd still buy from them if they do me right. they're getting in a BWM R nine T which has been on my bucket list so may see what they can do on that for me. we shall see.
Like iu say just bad luck, i did want to keep the bike, yet not now.