{"id":17889,"date":"2026-07-07T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=17889"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:06:20","slug":"why-youre-losing-the-right-to-repair-your-own-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/why-youre-losing-the-right-to-repair-your-own-motorcycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You&#8217;re Losing the Right to Repair Your Own Motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of this is diabolical in that you need the manufacturer&#8217;s software to service your motorcycle, which they won&#8217;t sell to you. Primarily covering the ABS\/traction control mega sensor and throttle by wire sensor that needs to be calibrated after replacement, and Honda&#8217;s part approval garbage. The ABS\/traction control are great safety features, but what happens if it fails, especially when you really need it or are depending on it too much? You do have a small window to buy a new motorcycle before the telematics hell of cars, trucks and SUVs take over motorcycles (now 5%). I owned a 2002 Kawasaki ZX-6R for 18 years, and did all my own services except the valve checks every 15,000 miles, as I didn&#8217;t want to hassle with going to get the shims, and deal with the cramped space between the frame when taking off the valve cover&#8230;, and it was only $400 for a comprehensive service&#8230; And I never had to do anything other than replacing wearable items, chains, tires&#8230; I can&#8217;t imagine being locked out of the computer and unable to calibrate new parts though. And the progressing to a CAN bus for less wiring is also troubling, and just sad that these megacorps are against their customers, even lobbying lawmakers against them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why You&amp;apos;re Losing the Right to Repair Your Own Motorcycle\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9_A7GukrIs4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of this is diabolical in that you need the manufacturer&#8217;s software to service your motorcycle, which they won&#8217;t sell to you. Primarily covering the ABS\/traction control mega sensor and throttle by wire sensor that needs to be calibrated after replacement, and Honda&#8217;s part approval garbage. The ABS\/traction control are great safety features, but what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17890,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889\/revisions\/17890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}