clymer vs oem manuals.

Going to pick up a service manual for my bike. Anyone have any experience
between the two manuals. Seems to me the oem manual would be better as it
would cover the specific year as opposed to mulitiple years.

Yes they are!

I recommend both, but if you only get one, I'd give the nod to OEM by a
small amount. My experiences:

XR:
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OEM - Outstanding. Very few circumstances have I not been able to derive a
clear approach to my problem from their manual. I also have the other Honda
manuals that went with it (race, operator, and I think parts).

Clymer - Never used it and ended up giving it to a friend. It wasn't
worse.. just never beat the XR book.

KZP
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OEM - Generally good but for my bike, they do mix too many years together
and cross-reference too much. I have found some small errors including a
very notable one with regard to installing and adjusting the little
cam/ball hooha that pushes the clutch rod in.

Clymer's - For many operations, the photos/drawings are clearer and the
process better described. This isn't for all of them, but for some of the
real PITA work, Clymer's had the preferred interpretation of "how".

Again... I think both is the right answer. Good luck.

Buy the OEM from the dealer - worth the fitty bucks in spades. You can
fix anything with one, and every step of every procedure is typically
shown in photographs.

You can't fix anything with a Clymer manual unless you already know how
to do it.

I just ordered the manual from buykawasaki.com.
42.90 with shipping.

Hopefully it wont take forever to get here.