Thinking of giving up...

[ophic]

Originally Posted by macamxthe1st

There is a significant dollop of tongue in cheek here.

Geoff.

Not for some. Break the divine rules and thou deserves to be smitten.

Trust me, smitten I truly am.

Geoff.

[NTECUK]

Cars and trucks are like shark's.
Some of them feckers BITE...

[ophic]

Originally Posted by NTECUK

Cars and trucks are like shark's.
Some of them feckers BITE...

Don't forget minibuses!

[Blapper]

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Ha that thing about the bulb made me laugh. Mine went while I was near a dealer. The orger I was with berated me for asking the dealer to change the bulk and claimed I was being lazy not doing it myself. I pointed out that it's the most fiddly job and easy to bu99er up leading to great expense. If they make a mess of it they have to fix it. I paid £10 labour and went for a coffee.

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£10 labour? Oh, that's great customer service Mr BMW...

Originally Posted by macamxthe1st

Hate chains but had a couple of new BMW's and found them to be very troublesome. I also know of dealers who will quote stupidly low P/X on them as they do not want them. Shame but I think that BMW (the car operation also) is a bit of "smoke and mirrors" operation.

Geoff.

Between about '83 and today I have owned R65LS, R800RT, R100RS, K100RS, K100RT, K1 and R1150RT. A significant proportion of miles were done between my house and the dealers to get **** fixed. Problems ranged from complete bike changed due to it going rusty in three weeks due to it's shipping crate having split and salt spray getting in there (all my other BM's were still pristine after two years), to the infamous K100RT which had an aero problem and shook its head violently when cornering at 110MPH+ and 45 degree +. Only solution was ride slower or sell it. I sold it.

The R1150RT was love/hate, waaay too heavy and high, but a fine bike once rolling. I'd have a 75% scale 800cc version tomorrow which is why the F800GT interests me. I'm surprised to read the toothed belt gives problems as they are protected almost completely by a nice guard. By the time I've done 25K miles though, there will be third party belts available - I hope...

[Littlepeahead]

You have to take the whole unit apart to replace the bulb. It's fiddly and takes me ages so that's probably about right based on the time it would have taken them.

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[Blapper]

My point was that they should do it free if they made it a nightmare to do. They know how to charge at BMW.