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| - I live in the area and wanted to service my bike. I have been maintaining the minor things on it already (fluids, pads, tires, chain), but I'm at the 15,000 mile marker and needed a full inspection. I was prepared to pay for new valves if I needed them. The guy I talked to said he knew how to service my specific bike and quoted me a "Tier 3" full service, which included new sparkplugs and valves, replaced fluids, new brakepads/brake fluid, and a ball bearing repacking. Total came up to $950.00.
I told him I replaced all the fluids and brakepads, but he said, verbatim, "Yeah I understand, but since this is the biggest maintenance check-up of your service manual (which it was), we should go ahead and replace them."
Needless to say, I told him I wasn't going to waste the life of my brand new pads, fluids and chain. I told him I just needed a full inspection, and if anything was out of whack, we would deal with it as it came.
Since I "preferred to go cheaper", he quoted me the "Tier 2" service, which was $500.00 and didn't include the bearing repacking. At this point I just thanked him for his time.
Did some checking online later, and as it turns out, his $300 "bearing repacking" is a bunch of crap; my bike's bearings are all sealed (so no "repacking"), and if i want to replace them, it's about $250 dollars cheaper than what he quote me.
DON'T go here for any kind of servicing. If you need a chain/pads/fluids/gear and they happen to have it in stock, sure, buy it because it's fixed pricing and they can't bs you on it. But when you go in for inspections and stuff, they start adding crap in that doesn't make sense.
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