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NoVa Rider · 04-20-2019, 08:13 PM

I use my RX3 fairly regularly for shorter trips, and always enjoy riding it. Just a very handy machine, fun for just about any kind of riding as long as you don't have to cover a lot of freeway miles. I've taken it on few longer adventures and hope to get out more this coming year. Just approaching 10,000 miles.

I've experienced most of the issues folks have mentioned. Broken shift return spring, early wear of OEM chain, leaking OEM battery, bad headlight switch gear, and I've had to do more work tightening, sealing, and lubing parts than you'd expect on a Japanese machine. But its been easy to do, parts and farkles are cheap, and the bike has never stranded me or let me down. And when I bought it in 2015, it was really about the only game in town for a small bore adventure-type bike.

My main issue overall is low resale value. But the up front cost was relatively low. You just need to ride the thing to get your value out of it.

04-20-2019, 08:13 PM	#10
NoVa Rider Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Northern Virginia Posts: 144	9900 on a 2015 I use my RX3 fairly regularly for shorter trips, and always enjoy riding it. Just a very handy machine, fun for just about any kind of riding as long as you don't have to cover a lot of freeway miles. I've taken it on few longer adventures and hope to get out more this coming year. Just approaching 10,000 miles. I've experienced most of the issues folks have mentioned. Broken shift return spring, early wear of OEM chain, leaking OEM battery, bad headlight switch gear, and I've had to do more work tightening, sealing, and lubing parts than you'd expect on a Japanese machine. But its been easy to do, parts and farkles are cheap, and the bike has never stranded me or let me down. And when I bought it in 2015, it was really about the only game in town for a small bore adventure-type bike. My main issue overall is low resale value. But the up front cost was relatively low. You just need to ride the thing to get your value out of it.
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