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    Best 1st gen year for reliability and ease of maintence

    It depends where you live... around here... and I believe a lot of Canadian cities you will find the prices much higher... even on new vehicles. for example a subaru WRX up here is at least $10,000 more than one in the USA. And up here 30,000 KM which is something like 18,600 miles I...
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    Best 1st gen year for reliability and ease of maintence

    Yeah, those intruders were ugly on the battery access too.. (one nice thing about the Marauder is I just pull the seat) I changed my front sprocket from the 15 tooth to the 17 tooth and it made a huge difference on the road... sure I'm not doing burnouts on it.. but it is more than enough...
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    Best 1st gen year for reliability and ease of maintence

    Yeah, probably.. most I've seen talk about performance and such... not as many for ease of maintenance or fewer issues... like the gear selector change to a more robust design... It's a yamaha engine... I don't think there will be a lot of problems there... but I've seen more than a couple...
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    Best 1st gen year for reliability and ease of maintence

    Yeah, I've finally started to see some V-Max bikes coming down in price... it is hard to believe most of the ones I am seeing are over 20 years old (if not older) and pushing at most 30,000km (that is KM not miles) I would have got one before but they were about 2-3 grand more than I could...
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    Best 1st gen year for reliability and ease of maintence

    I've driven an old V-max back in the day... couldn't afford it back then.. but now I am thinking of selling my Suzuki Marauder and getting an older V-Max... I'm not well versed in the Max yet... I looked at some of the lists that cite the changes up to 2001... so while I know the best year...
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