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Don't fret about doing the miles, keep the bike for ten years, save a fortune in fuel costs, at that age it won't be worth much anyway so keep it for the winter hack and buy a new bike, now you also have the beginning of you bike collection, when your second bike is ten years old, rebuild the first as it's now almost a classic and will start to gain value. By the time you are too old to ride, your collection can be sold off to fund coach trips to the sea side.

Yes the Honda ones are aluminium and you can get a packet of five the same size on the net for the price of one Honda washer.

Buell use Dowty type self-sealing washers rather than crush-washers.

James - i have the AT (DCT) as well as the NC750x and although the AT is more comfy etc, I end up taking my NC to work 99% of the time as its 100 miles round trip, the miles kills the value of the bike, and I get 80mpg all day long vs 60mpg if i baby the AT. I love the fact the NC gets me to work so well at such a good price, and given ive had it for 2years now and the miles are high, the extra miles do not really harm the value. Add to that the NC is way easier to clean.... I love my AT, the look, sounds, ride, speeeeeed etc :-) and love to use it at weekends with