It's worth pulling the arm when fairly new to grease 'em.
Just to cheer you up I thought you'd like to see what the factory grease phobia will make your CARC bike swingarm bearings look like if you don't grease 'em.
Admittedly this bike, a 1200 Sport owned by a guy who rides the piss out of it, is in for its 100,000 service but if they grease'em properly on assembly it wouldn't be an issue. The linkage bearings were pretty bad too.
Just to cheer you up I thought you'd like to see what the factory grease phobia will make your CARC bike swingarm bearings look like if you don't grease 'em.
Admittedly this bike, a 1200 Sport owned by a guy who rides the piss out of it, is in for its 100,000 service but if they grease'em properly on assembly it wouldn't be an issue. The linkage bearings were pretty bad too.