Quote:It was an R1150GS. I bought it 4 years old with 18,000 miles on the clock. Every other year something expensive failed.The gearbox giving up the ghost at 52,000 miles, on the way home from the 2015 Bol d'Or, was the final straw. The most annoying fault was when the two bob seal on the clutch slave cylinder failed, it caused fluid to contaminate a perfectly good clutch. Not a cheap job.

(16-06-20, 07:17 PM)VNA - BMW Wank link Wrote:

Quote:Quote from: VNA - BMW Wank on Today at 12:00:17 PM

    Yeah, people like me. :lol  Now where the heck did I put my pipe cleaner.

  To be fair, you had kind of excluded yourself from your description of BMW riders by implying that they were no longer purely for that kind of person. But even if you do see yourself in that way (which I find highly unlikely) I'm sure that many owners would find what you wrote really quite rude and offensive.

BMW’s did used to, for quite some time, have a reputation of being the sensible option.  The gentleman’s steed.  As opposed to the brash new, look at me, go faster bad boy Japanese bikes.  And have you ever seen the BMW club roll into your town?  Plenty of beards, half face helmets and yes pipes. 



I’m sure we can all agree that BMW has changed quite radically over the last 15 years.  Well I think so.  Or I dunno, I am in my 50’s now – and I’m riding a boxer. :eek

Quote:VNAs signature is as self effacing as they come and then some.

Be careful what you say in jest when a certain administrator going by the handle of  BBROWN is aboot. :evil

Quote:I ride an old Harley and theres still a lot of people out there riding stuff like my bike because they are wannabe outlaws etc,

I always imagine that once you have placed your order for your new Harley at your local HD dealer, they then say “step this way Sir” and lead one through to the outlaw clothing department.

Quote:Like I say, I’m hoping BMW’s design and quality control is a good bit better than it used to be.  Anyway I’m, covered by their 3 year warranty.  Just need the opportunity to get out on the thing a bit more.

Quote:Are you still not allowed out to play up there in Scotsville?

Quote:Yeah you... dunno why it autocorrected to scotsville haha