Any contributions to the thread? anyone? I don't mean to hijack the thread or stimulate people to ventilate their anger towards their bikes and manufacturers. What I think would be a productive discussion would be a general list of things that broke (or not) on their bikes. Every bike/car/mechanical project can and will fail eventually but I think that it would be nice to know what problems one could expect should we find a pattern.

Robson's gear problem for instance, although not desired he has ridden 99k km on it so lots of "smile per mile" on the many trips he's made. Is that something we could expect from this engine? If so, around this mileage or has it happened to someone else earlier?

Is the frame prone to cracks? If so, under what kind of use/abuse?

The idea here is simply to get know our XT660 project a bit better so trashing and bashing is not productive.

Cheers and peace!