If you are your own mechanic it's fine.
I'm not, as a matter of fact when I pick any kind of tool women hide there children, so it has cost me thousands to maintain.
Like they've all said and I agree when you get on your dog you forget about the problems, but I ride mine and have 40,000 miles on it.
I live about 20 minutes from the Hoover Dam and go there a couple of time a month and I find it amazing how my bike is as big of an attraction to tourists as the dam is. :up::bang::up: