Man, I have about had it with American engineering and I've just about had it with Harley Davidson service.
I've got an '01 Buell Blast; I normally do all my work on cars but the stuff that breaks on this piece is way too hard to fix for my current skill. Completely unrelated parts fail at the same time and the bike sits at the shop for literally a month while they sit and wait on the parts. They don't answer my calls, they walk all over me and I'm starting to think this bike is designed to break just so I can bring it back and give them more of my money. I have rode it 4,000 miles, babying it because I depend on it for transportation and this is what has happened. Mind you, I rarely wind it up, I have never taken it above 75, I have never taken the front wheel off the ground, and it only tipped over once parked during a windstorm.
All the gaskets went, including the rocker box, cylinder head, o-rings, "gas leaking from carb boot through air cleaner". Turn signal relay as well. All of this cost me $700.
Intake boot went, stranded on road. Charged me just $10.
Front motor mount broke in half - $150
Studs broken on motor mounts three times, had to be extracted. Free the first time, $30 the second time, $50 the third time.
Front and rear isolaters went, had to wait a month for the parts, then charged $250 to install.
Noticed a small oil weep from around the shifter. Apparently the gasket in there went, "Yeah, it'll be fine for now. Whenever you have, like, five hundred bucks, just bring it back in."
After waiting a month on the parts, they charged me $250 and I had it for a week before the intake boot went again. Waited week-and-a-half for parts, charged $40, they gave me the bike. Took it out, let it warm up. Was disgusted; the whole thing was vibrating as if the motor mounts broke again, but I checked that and it did not. They have yet to even admit anything was wrong with it.
Needless to say, I intend to sell this P.O.S and get an older bike that I can actually work on myself. The '75 Kawasaki Triple we own is more reliable than this '01 model.