Im curios you didnt show opening right side with key how far should that open . Mine will only open about three inches. You can barely get to cable and good luck trying to get tool kit out.
Rahul is the man. Takes the drain plugs out bare handed, then bare hands the oil filter! Seriously, though, very comprehensive, taking the time to get good camera view, even quoting the SAE oil spec. Fine work!
Hey mate, thank you for the video, you're a legend. Do you think you could also put up or at least inform me as to where to find the coolant reservoir? I can't seem to find it nor can I find any pictures of it installed on the bike.
Hi, do you have a video showing us what the sound was before the adjustment? mine makes a sound - but it's more of a hssssshhhhh sound every time the belt does a complete turn. I'm thinking of using one of those spray solutions for belts and try and eliminate the sound. Hopefully that will do the trick.
Im loving your content about the c109 and would appreciate it if you'd post more basic maintenance videos like ( supension adjustments/service, air filter replacement etc ). Just bought mine, an 08 with 4k miles and it seems to have a surge/ hesitation in the first 3 gears at low/ steady rpms. It seems like a common issue on both the c109 and m109 according to some forums. Do you have that issue with yours? Thanks in advance.
It is not bad once you get used to it. Lot of people are afraid of larger bikes - there is no need to be. Try it out and you will fall in love with it.
Good review just wanna know which bike is more powerful .fast and comfortable on highway speeds among boulevard c109rt, vulcan vn 2000 and honda vtx 1800 pls suggest . Thanks
The Vulcan is the most potent. The others are good too and you will not go wrong with either. Personal preference - sitting style etc. I am going to make a detailed comparison.
I intend to make a detailed video on that. Check out my short video on first driving impressions on the 109RT. Some comparisons exist there ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rgZ-aXY2g_0.html
I own a 2009 C109RT black and red. I have the cobra street exhaust on mine and u don't just hear mine but u feel it too. I compared the ride from my C109RT with a M109R and the M109R is renowned for it's Muscle but coming from my experience the C109RT has more muscle and is all around better from speed to torque to comfort and smoothness it's a true power cruiser and they are so incredibly rare.
Yes, could be a 09 thing. Sorry I am not aware of that. The studded cargo bag was a loaner from my Vulcan VN2000 as mine from the 109RT was borrowed by a friend for a trip.
so the rear wheel was not tracking straight. Sometimes the marks on the swing arm don’t line up correctly on the axle marks. Here is the shore way to do it. I did this on my factory Road racers back in the day. I never trusted the swing arm marks, because at very high speed, you can put you into a high-speed tank slapper.. get a piece of white string about 20 feet long. By the way, I have a video on RU-vid showing how to do this on my Kawasaki Z 400 .. you get to the middle of the string and wrap it around the front wheel about 6 inches off the ground at the front of the tire. You bring the two equal lengths of string down both sides of the bike, and pull them one on each side of the rear tire. Do you have someone sit on the bike and try to hold the front wheel straight.. you can tell it straight if the string is making contact with the tire and four places.. sometimes it helps to put a spacer on each side under the string in the front wheel, so that the front tire is as wide as the back tire with the spacers, holding the string out to make the front as wide as the rear tire now lay on the ground and eyeball the string, holding it about six or eight or 10 inches off the ground just so that it clears the discs, sprockets, whatever you will be able to see very easily, if the rear wheel is pointed in exactly the same direction as the front wheel, using the tight string on both sides. If it is not perfectly straight, tracking behind the front wheel, loosen the axle and adjust it, then make a note of where your indicators on your axle slides are in reference to the swingarm marks. You can check your marks, or you can see how close they are or how far off they are that way.. I saw that being done in the pits of the factory Road race teams. They were checking to see if the frame was still straight after a crash. I was talking to one of the mechanics, and he said, string don’t lie.
I believe that is just for checking his initial fill to know not to overfill the oil. If ya think about it, twisting it down from there will probably put the oil right in the middle of those cross hatches. So properly filled when touching the bottom of dipstick before tightening it down.
Thanks for the thorough review Rahul. Now that these are becoming affordable to me as a Popper in the states I'm going to pull the trigger on one this year. Well done comprehensive review, thank you.
Hi, there. I see that you have some experience with the Kawa 2000cc, the Suzuki C109, and the VTX 1800. Ever consider doing a video where you compare the pluses and minuses of all three bikes? Not many riders have had the experience of riding all three bikes. Thanks.
@@rahulranecool If you get the chance to do that, please include your size and weight and the ergonomics/comfort level of how you felt on all three. Thanks.
You’re assuming the swing arm is perfectly symmetrical, and that may not be how Kawasaki calibrated the notches just saying The other thing I’ve heard, and I believe it’s true is that the belt on the V2K should actually ride a little bit to the outboard side of the pulleys not directly in the middle, I don’t know if you read or heard about that
Not really. Measurements and references were made from the front as well to arrive at this. The video has been made to give the final results, so people can benefit. Also squeal free riding takes the fun to another level. Yes I've heard some people say let it ride on the left. Most shops will go by the factory calibration which is the belt on the left anyway.
It is impossible to let the belt travel at the same spot. If adjusted correctly, make a long left turn... the belt travels to the left side of the pulley. Iden dite for a long right turn.
