I like bicycle mainenance because everything's out in the open and you can see what adjustments do while you're doing them.
I like motorcycle maintenance because it gives me a feeling of accomplishment and comptetence that are far beyond reality. I will do maintenance on the NT, but haven't been able to take the time to connect with good ol' Chuck to get him to walk me through it. But that day will come.
I have been pretty impressed with the service department at Sun Honda in Denver. When I bought my first Concours in '99, that was not the case. I bought the bike two weeks after it had been put together. I thought on my way home that the handling wasn't what I expected. Turned out that there were 20psi in both tires even if the pre-delivery checklist showed 36 and 42. When I took it back for the 600-miles service, I asked the service manager if the same mechanic who set the bike up was going to do that service. The manager said, "Yes, sir. He's our Concours specialist." I asked to talk to him, wanting to vent to the mechanic just a tad about the tire pressures and try to get him to do better work on my bike. Service manager wouldn't let me talk to him, argued that the bike had been delivered after a thorough and complete inspection.
When I got home after the 600 mile service, 3 days after I bought the bike. I found oil leaks that hadn't been there before the service, about six or seven fairing bolts missing and several other squawks. I rode it back to Denver and told the service manager that he'd never see me again. I also told the salesman who had sold me the bike and he just shook his head.
The service manager has been replaced and 11 years later the salesman who sold me the Connie is the assistant service manager. The two techs who've worked on my bike are both in their mid-to-late 30s and have been very good. They talk to me after each service and have come out to get me to show me things while they working on the bike. I think there has been an organizational change at Sun in the last 11 years that has raised the bar in the service department.
I feel confident in what they do to my bike and I like that feeling. We had an excellent mechanic in Fort Morgan, but he had some health issues and decided he needed a job where someone helped him with the cost of health insurance.