**** WARNING! Rear axle bearings ****

[SB]

Do you use a pressure washer ?

[Djairouks]

Nope and never been to a cleaning station, I cleaned the motorcycle 2 times with sponge !

[Jyrays]

Got the bike back allready, it's insane they showed me the right bearing 4 balls were into shreds, the left one was as new...
The mechanic asked Honda for a warranty repair, crossing my fingers and hope the new bearings are a better batch !

The bearings are few euro each, I didn't bother to claim warranty as they are wearing parts anyway. You can always carry set of bearings with you, they are not expensive or heavy.

[Jyrays]

Do you use a pressure washer ?

SB, this has nothing to do with water, or washing bike. Just a batch of bad bearings as there was a batch of bad spokes too I assume.

[MrKiwi]

A friend of mine is doing a around the world trip on his AT. He's been at it for two years and has some experience with the rear wheel bearing.

Apologies if I am not permitted to link to another forum, but this is the easiest way to show what he has done.
The link is https://advrider.com/f/threads/rtw-on-a-h-a-t-in-the-slow-lane.1172713/page-37#post-34378895
That was some time ago when he fitted this bearing and I spoke with him recently and he says it is doing a good job. Prior to this he replaced his rear bearing twice.