My x has done only 5.5k miles & is very clean. I do all the little bits of tinkering, but am happy to pay my local dealer to do main servicing. They are VERY helpful & have carried out warranty work without question.

A question: how close to the specified mileage does one need to be to fulfill the warranty conditions? For example, my manual says next service due at 10000 km, which I believe is 6.2 k miles. If you went, say 1000 km over, would Yamaha void the warranty??

Well, until I left the UK I had all of my work carried out by my friendly dealer, they were Honda at the time when I had a CB750K6 and they became Yamaha more recently.

I have now a lovely garage where I have a bike lift as well as a beer fridge and a good set of tools so I now do all of my own routine stuff and none of my bikes have ever required anything more, touch wood. I am also still best mates with my UK dealer and their service manager comes on holiday to me from time to time so if I need anything more complex he can help, but fortunately so far so good.

In my experience and opinion, Yamaha has now caught and maybe even overtaken Honda for product reliability. Ciao Simon

Mash - it may be down to your dealer. When I needed engine work done after 60,000 miles of courier use it was covered under warranty (along with replacement of ignition barrel/seat & fuel cap locks/ECU). My dealers service manager was not bothered by the fact that a couple of oil changes may have been 500-1000 miles overdue. In fact I think he said it may be more detrimental (and unesseccary) to change the oil too soon - something to do with build up of detergents left over from the clean(ish) oil. Hopefully Kev can qualify that.

It may have helped in my case that because of my high mileage they were seeing me every few months during the warranty period for dealer servicing and knew the bike was looked after.

A big thumbs up to the Motorbike Shop (ex Infinity bike sales/Motorcycle City) Farnborough.

My nearest Yamaha dealership is too far away to get it done there so whatever I can do myself I will and then i get a local guy who does bike maintenance to sort out the bigger jobs that I can't do or don't have the tools to do.

new bike warranty service's at the dealership...
After that I do it all..

Simon, you have NO IDEA how jealous I am!!!!!! I live in a block of flats, so my poor X sits under a rain cover chained to car park railings all night/rain. I can put an axle stand under her to raise back wheel for chain lube/wheel cleaning & do the odd bit of minor tinkering, but its up & down 2 flights of steps to get the right tool/beverage each time, no external power, & reliant on daylight & dry weather. Sooooooooooooooooooo unfair!!!!!!

Got a garage and three bikes to look after, so I do my own servicing but if anything major cropped up, I might have to take it to a local dealer.

I'm reasonably capable mechanically, but I have less confidence in my electrical capabilities, especially if it came to fuel injection woes!

Do it my .the waurty had dune there didn't have clue about bike mest up co setting