Polls on this list require you to remath the numbers to have them make any sense.

This poll recorded relative frequency/importance of the list of issues.  Everyone had to respond to see the poll (everyone has done the Suzuki Method so everyone had some input to give)

The stated purpose for me was to see how many honest people there were who would admit to (oops) dropping the bike.

The answer was 3.

Heck, if the question had been "Almost dropped the bike" I would have had to respond yes too, I didn't drop it but it was a headed that way ....

The number of strain injuries corresponds to the number of (oops) you are in an awkward position and are likely to strain something as you fight not to drop the bike.   Once again, the answer was 3




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So, you got nobody proposing any real reason not to check your oil with the bike on the side stand.

As far as this war goes, looks like it is about petered out due to lack of reasonable reasons to keep on doing what you done been doing.

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Good news, you can change what you do

And likely when you start using some oil regularly you will change, as you got a very slight safety reserve of oil using the Suzuki Method and you will eventually go too low once or twice due to a trip or a little bit of slackness, then you will remember the sidestand method and the greater safety reserve it supplies.

And once you try it you will say "Jeeze, all those times I bent over and struggled with the bike -- and I didn't even have to !!"

Seems like another lopsided poll to me.  The only choices allowed are for a problem.  There is no choice like "No problem whatsoever".  How can I vote?  I guess I have just been lucky in the last 10 years of ownership.  Oldfeller, you should change your handle to "Spindoctor".  You would make a great politician.

When my bike starts buring more oil than 4 oz every 500 miles then I will try the overfill method.  Until that time I guess I will just follow the Suzuki instructions and continue doing things the hard way.

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 There is no choice like "No problem whatsoever".
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Define the word "problem"
Define the word "inconvenience"
It doesn't necessarily have to be a problem.
But I don't know how anyone could have honestly voted "no problem whatsoever",.......except Bill......(sorry, the devil made me do it !)
It wasn't a problem for me before I dropped my bike.
But it was a big inconvenience. After I dropped it, then there was a big problem,....w/ a saftey factor built in.
Then came the 2x4 trick which was no problem, and only a little inconvenient,.......except when there was no 2x4 around, then it was a problem.
But now using the "overfill method" we got rid of the problem, if there was one, and the "inconvenience".....which there was a big one, and the saftey factor,....which there was one.
I just wish I had invented it, but I have this feeling that this method has been used by (maybe smarter) others long before us.

Yep, its "boredom", thats what it is !

I decided to sell my S40 its just to dang hard to check the oil level.

Bill,
You forgot you were one of those that didn't have any problem w/ it,..... remember,....the foxy lady holding it vertical while you were horizontal ??
Oh wow, what did I say ??   Sorry Bill !

bill67 wrote on 11/05/10 at 06:17:46:

Get what Bill?   Get horizontal with a foxy lady ??

Suuuurrrre there, 'ol buddy -- what would you do with her once you got her there?


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Back to your bike, what year is it, how many miles do you have on it and what does its maintenance record look like?

What? You didn't know you are supposed to change the air in the tires every time you change the oil? Unless you use dry nitrogen instead of air, in which case it is only every other time.