As I have done in other enthusiast forums, I am going to journal the life cycle of my beloved new toy. I like to keep a chronological log of events for myself and the benefit of others when I buy new toys. Trials, tribulations, mechanical history, and the like. I'm a little late to start this, so I will get this up to date.

7/29/2017: New bike comes home. Disappointed with recurring issues on my 2005 CVO Fat Boy, I started looking for something a little more road-worthy. I became very interested in the Laguna Orange RGS, and my local dealer showed two of them in stock. On the ride to the dealer, a puff of smoke came out of the fairing and the radio stopped working. Not good. This is a sign. Walked in to check them out, and I'll be damned; both were up front on the show room floor with SOLD signs on them. Frak. Undaunted, I check out the rest of the lineup. The Hot Red Red seems to attract my attention...and evidently everyone else's. People kept circling this bike and commenting on the color. Salesman tells me to road test one, so I take one out for a spin. Love at first twist. Sold. $28K for this bike...damn. Soul-searched. Decided if the trade money was right, we'd do the deal. Trade money exceeded my expectation. Rode home on this beauty that day, smiling all the way.

7/31/2017: Discovered that the oil line recall was still open. A little miffed that my dealer allowed the bike to be sold before that was done, and let them know this. Scheduled the recall inspection for 8/12/2017.

8/12/2017: Took to dealer for oil line recall, in and out in 10 minutes. Bought all my fluids and filter for my approaching 1K service while I was there. Decided to stick with factory fluids: Syn3 for the crankcase, Formula+ for the transmission and chain case.

8/19/2017: Performed 1K service @ 1016 miles. Reused drain plug o-rings and torqued to spec. Had good luck in the past with this method, inspection cover too. Will replace on next service. No debris on crankcase magnet, traces of fine metal on transmission and chain case magnets per expectation. Fluids were still nearly clear as new. No apparent transfer between trans and chain case. Every hole took exactly the amount of fluid as spec'd in the owner's manual. All fasteners tight and to spec. Washed her up and took a 370-mile ride. Purring like a kitten, quiet as a mouse. No issues to date. Still smilin'.

8/28/2017: Just paid the registration. $1444. Ouch. Could have bought a lot of goodies for that $$$. Thanks City/County/State...

 

nice scoot. The M8 is an incredible ride for sure. Everyone I have talked to ask, "how do you like it"?. I tell em, I love it, you should test drive one. They always say no, they know theyd want one..... Yep, you did nice, great color too.

 

Nice ride! I was torn between that color and the Laguna Orange one. The $1200 price difference sold me on the Orange one. lol

 

Nice!!! I do like that color.

 

Updated original post. Taxes, taxes, taxes...

 

Dang, them taxes are high! Is that a yearly hit?

 

Great bike . cool color. how do we find out how many are this color?

 

No, $1100 of that was for sales tax. 1st renewal will be around $300. Still too much. Ugh.

 

Funny you should ask, because I was wondering the same thing. Any HD gurus on the forums that can get production stats?

 

Well, shat. It appears that a new editing policy prevents me from updating my original post. Uncool. I'll have to start over every time. Sigh.