Hey guys/gals/mooses/meece,
I picked up my new 790 a month ago after cruising the forum here for any potential issues. I had been looking for a torquey upright bike to add to the stable, but nothing was really jumping out at me until the 790's showed up at the local dealer where my girlfriend works. I now have 1200km on it and loving it!
Few issues during break-in:
- Full throttle top of 2nd, try to shift to 3rd and it violently kicked back to 2nd. I didn't go that high of RPM often, it didn't do it in 3-4 shift.
- Once when trying to merge from an off-ramp in 1st the quickshifter found neutral instead of 2nd. Luckily the car slowed down for me so I had a chance to get it into gear without getting creamed.
It took 6 attempts to get the shift sensor alignment to work at the first service. When I rode it home after the first attempt I had no gear indicator and it would do a delayed shift up but wouldn't go down. Went back in the next day and after an hour of re-learns it finally worked. We were getting codes for shift shaft sensor faulty until the re-learn worked, then it was all clear. Hopefully my previous shifter issues will go away now. We noticed the shift rod was bent, but not binding anything, so there's a new one waiting for me.
Yesterday I had to ride it in the rain. I had heard of issues here with the fuel filler drain, so I checked it when the rain stopped when I was parked at the dealer. Big drink of water fell in, closed the cap as fast as I could. Tilted the bike up on the kickstand, opened the cap again and could see the huge puddle of water sitting over the drain hole and not moving. The bike was jerky riding home, I'll have to try and suck the puddle of water out from inside the tank. One of the mechanics was leaving for the day and saw me tilting the bike up, so I explained what happens and he says the Victory bikes were really bad for it too. I could unpinch or re-route the hose myself, but they get paid to do it and need to learn the issues for the future.
I picked up my new 790 a month ago after cruising the forum here for any potential issues. I had been looking for a torquey upright bike to add to the stable, but nothing was really jumping out at me until the 790's showed up at the local dealer where my girlfriend works. I now have 1200km on it and loving it!
Few issues during break-in:
- Full throttle top of 2nd, try to shift to 3rd and it violently kicked back to 2nd. I didn't go that high of RPM often, it didn't do it in 3-4 shift.
- Once when trying to merge from an off-ramp in 1st the quickshifter found neutral instead of 2nd. Luckily the car slowed down for me so I had a chance to get it into gear without getting creamed.
It took 6 attempts to get the shift sensor alignment to work at the first service. When I rode it home after the first attempt I had no gear indicator and it would do a delayed shift up but wouldn't go down. Went back in the next day and after an hour of re-learns it finally worked. We were getting codes for shift shaft sensor faulty until the re-learn worked, then it was all clear. Hopefully my previous shifter issues will go away now. We noticed the shift rod was bent, but not binding anything, so there's a new one waiting for me.
Yesterday I had to ride it in the rain. I had heard of issues here with the fuel filler drain, so I checked it when the rain stopped when I was parked at the dealer. Big drink of water fell in, closed the cap as fast as I could. Tilted the bike up on the kickstand, opened the cap again and could see the huge puddle of water sitting over the drain hole and not moving. The bike was jerky riding home, I'll have to try and suck the puddle of water out from inside the tank. One of the mechanics was leaving for the day and saw me tilting the bike up, so I explained what happens and he says the Victory bikes were really bad for it too. I could unpinch or re-route the hose myself, but they get paid to do it and need to learn the issues for the future.
