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[Wildrat]

All I know about the Ricor is what I read on their website. Sure seems like quite a bit of money for something I don't even know if I need. I have had no complaints about the front end but have had issues with the rear shocks. On the bike I just did I put the SE Heavy fork oil in it and I could tell the difference between it and the bike I am doing now, but with the caps loose on mine the front end was not all it could be anyway.
As far as who to blame for shoddy work. You can blame the dealer and the motor company. You can blame the dealer for not tightening the lock nut on the clutch spring when they changed my stator, you can blame the dealer when they said they took the primary cover back off and inspected the clutch assembly for any damage and they said it was fine. You can blame the dealer that said my clutch was fine, and 80 miles into a 4600 mile ride the clutch failed. You can blame the dealer when on the same trip a exhaust leak developed and instead of taking the clamp off under the seat where it is held in place by a bracket for being to lazy to remove the clamp, then twisting the exhaust with the help of another moron so they can slip the exhaust gasket in,then breaking the bracket, saying they did not have parts to fix it and then the exhaust shield gouging the primary cover.
You can blame the motor company for not tightening the caps on my forks, making the brackets that hold the cowl on out of crap materials so that they crack and then making the customer buy them when they break. You can blame the motor company for a crappy 110 motor that was not tested sufficiently enough to find all the mechanical faults in the design that appeared immediatley when customers bought the bikes.
I'll stop there, this is the history of this company and yet we still buy them. 

[dayne66]

So I roll the wife's bike out of the garage and roll mine in to change engine, primary, tranny oil, and also to change the fork oil in mine also. I pull the tank off, take the switch panel off, get my 35 mm wrench, put it on the cap on one fork and it wasn't tight, put it on the other cap and it wasn't tight either. I am surprised these frigging bikes have not fallen apart. I guess they don't double check their work at the factory. This is why we have issues with our bikes, sometimes the same issues, and sometimes different problems.

Neither were mine...but then again my local Harley Davidson dealer's service dept was in there. That was along with the rear master cylinder cover just sitting on top of the reservoir, and also discovered yesterday while in the process of removing my forks to get seals replaced and Progressives installed...the axle cap nuts were hand tight!! Looks like I have to check EVERYTHING they may have touched.