It may seem kinda dumb but I was very happy and impressed with yamaha today when I decided to look at my tool kit that comes with the bike. I about fell over when a whole slew of wrenches and other tools came falling out! My Honda cbr250 came with a "tool kit" that included an allen wrench......ONE allen wrench, that's it! I've also read that even on their bigger bikes they don't provide squat with them. Pretty pathetic in my eyes. You had to buy the spanner wrench to adjust the preload from the dealer even. I didn't, I used a big set of channel locks.
And people always talk about hondas fit and finish. Well I haven't got to ride my bike but once because it's been so cold and we've been getting snow flurries so I've been out just staring at it and going over it checking everything out. Well in my opinion the yamaha has as good or better fit and finish than my honda did. I even get to compare it side by side with another cbr250 because my wife has a 2012 parked right next to my FZ8. I can't wait to get out and ride this thing some more though! It's killing me to have it just sitting there.
Oh and I've also already read the manual front to back. The only thing I didn't really like about it was their answer to everything was "take your bike to a yamaha dealer". LOL It did kind of have me concerned though because in the battery section it said about how you can't use a normal battery charger on it because of it's "special" battery so I started thinking "great I can't use my battery tender on this bike". Well after some googleing I realized they were talking about you can't use an old school car battery charger on it and the term they used was basically a fancy way to say maintenance free non vented battery.
And people always talk about hondas fit and finish. Well I haven't got to ride my bike but once because it's been so cold and we've been getting snow flurries so I've been out just staring at it and going over it checking everything out. Well in my opinion the yamaha has as good or better fit and finish than my honda did. I even get to compare it side by side with another cbr250 because my wife has a 2012 parked right next to my FZ8. I can't wait to get out and ride this thing some more though! It's killing me to have it just sitting there.
Oh and I've also already read the manual front to back. The only thing I didn't really like about it was their answer to everything was "take your bike to a yamaha dealer". LOL It did kind of have me concerned though because in the battery section it said about how you can't use a normal battery charger on it because of it's "special" battery so I started thinking "great I can't use my battery tender on this bike". Well after some googleing I realized they were talking about you can't use an old school car battery charger on it and the term they used was basically a fancy way to say maintenance free non vented battery.