I'm about 700 miles til service checked my oil today for the first time in a while it was a quart low It doesn't leak or smell like.burning oil is this normal?

 

Is this a new bike?
A quart low just before your 5,000 mile service is just fine.
A quart low 700 miles before your first 1000 mile service ......not so much

 

Nah its 2005 rk with 71k on it

 

RUUNNNN She's gonna blooowwwwwwwwww..... lolol

 

If she.blows I still have around a year of warranty put 31 k on her last year

 

Thought so..

If you're running a 5,000 mile service interval, no worries there.

Some guys burn that much every 1,000 and HD says that's "normal."

Mine's at 123,000 and uses less than 1/2 a quart before I change it.

Both our bikes are just fine, I'm sure.

 

Thanks for the info

 

Some 05's had a problem with valve seals causing oil usage.Have you noticed oil usage before?

Lot's of threads here if you do a search.

 

i bought the bike in feb. of last year and yes before last service i had to put a quart in does warranty cover the valve seal?

 

I had an 05 RK Custom that had the same problem, and no, there's no warranty coverage for a bike that far out. The problem was the valve seals. It was a fairly inexpensive fix doing it myself, but time consuming. After replacing the valve seals, never had another problem with oil consumption.