Valve shims required for adjustment?

I was wondering...for the people who have already checked there clearances and performed the valve adjustments on their bikes.....What size shims where existing in the bike and what size and how many shims did you require to bring your bike to spec? It would be great to know this in order to determine if spending $70 bucks on a shim kit is worth it, I really don't want to drive back and forth to the dealer to buy one shim at a time. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

 

Last time I did it most of the shims that I had to adjust were 1.75 mm and I had to either swap or buy them for shims in the 1.60-1.55 range. 8 valves had to be adjusted but I only had to buy 3 shims, about $30 dollars including shipping. The rest of the shims I either swapped with an existing valve or from the dealership.

IMO, the hotcams shim kit would be worth it ONLY if you're extremely impatient and want to get your bike up and running ASAP or you happen to do this for a living. Seeing as how it's been really cold you can just buy only the shims that you need. My case of adjusting 8 valves is pretty extreme because I ride my bike hard. If you ride it kind of easy you probably won't even need to adjust any valves at all. Or if you have to do adjust it's probably 1 or 2.

 

Well I want to start riding harder. For "harder riding" do you think its better to set the clearances to the shop manual specification of 0.16mm for intake and 0.30mm for exhaust as close to those numbers as possible or is it better to set them tho the higher end of the tolerance level of 0.19mm and 0.33mm?