seattle cycle show

[HappyMan]

Damn I'm jealous......

I'll let you know if I'm coming your way.  I need to get out and ride and if I don't clear my head soon I might blow up!  My brother in law bought my Beemer and he's looking to get some comp time in so we're discussing the possiblity of getting out of town.

How are those TKC's in the twisties?

[Stretch]

Just fine.  It really surprised me.  I was leaning quite a bit and the bike never once felt squirrelly.  I still have the little fuzzies on the outside edge of the outermost knobbies, but that's it.  I was using nearly all the tire in the curves, and they felt great.

I'm a big fan.

[JetdocX]

Add me to the TKC fanclub.  I had them on my F650 and they were great tires.

[HappyMan]

Add me to the TKC fanclub.  I had them on my F650 and they were great tires.

I was planning on switching out to them when my original wear out.  

Hmmmmmmm,
-New tires
-Stretch's front fender
-Stretch's bash plate
-New windshield
-Stretch's Jesse Bags

Am I missing anything? Oh yeah, the money to do it! :twisted:

[Stretch]

The fender I can do... the other stuff is way too labor intensive.  I have a good couple hundred hours in that bash plate alone.  The FrankenJesses took me over a month.

It'd be much cheaper for you to just buy the stuff from Touratech.

[HappyMan]

The fender I can do... the other stuff is way too labor intensive.  I have a good couple hundred hours in that bash plate alone.  The FrankenJesses took me over a month.

It'd be much cheaper for you to just buy the stuff from Touratech.

I thought we had a deal with the dog.....Didn't you receive her yet?

[Stretch]

Hmm... nope.

Christmastime... busiest shipping time of the year.  Hope you poked enough holes in the box.

[HappyMan]

Hmm... nope.

Christmastime... busiest shipping time of the year.  Hope you poked enough holes in the box.

I thought you wanted her stuffed.  Lower maintenance....kind of like shaft drive... :roll:

[Patrick the Scot]

Heh.  Pretty funny, a BMW robot dogging Triumphs.

BMW:
Final drive failures, CanBus failures, right cylinders seizing, clutch splines stripping, rear crankshaft seal failures, ABS problems and failures resulting in NO BRAKES...

Yeah do us a favor... keep all the posers on your brand, leaving the Tigers for those of us who actually ride.

No arguement about the first statement:  BMW are definitely high maintenance.  And high $ maintenance at that.  The brand even has documented catastrophic mechanical failures at speed.

However, I ride with some Beemers occasionally, and let me tell ya, here in West Texas these guys can RIDE!  Flat-out speed, twisties, and long distance, this bunch out of Lubbock will give any club a run for the money.

I'm not sure what they do with their BMWs up in Seattle, but we run the living shit out of our motorcycles here in Texas, and we don't wear cowboy hats.

[Patrick the Scot]

I have found people that own BMWs to whine a lot more than any other brand......

I'm looking forward to meeting some of you Tiger riders.  You appear to have the passion for riding that I have and can relate to.  I'm glad to "almost" be one of you!

BMW riders whine because their machines are: broke, just fixed, about to break, really expensive to fix when broke, or in a long line at the shop behind other broke BMWs.  

Not one problem out of El Tigre.

And BTW, you are one of us, this loosely associated group of independent thinkers who prefer "to take the road less travelled by."

[HappyMan]

I have found people that own BMWs to whine a lot more than any other brand......

And BTW, you are one of us, this loosely associated group of independent thinkers who prefer "to take the road less travelled by."

And proud to be!! Merry Christmas fellow inmates.  8)

[Stretch]

An interesting ongoing thread on ADV... it's a free-for-all, with Kool-Aid drinking BMW robots going 'round and around with other owners about final drive failures, loose lugbolts, ABS failures, and servo brake lockups.

"The rear wheel fell off.  Loose lug nuts or final drive failure."

"No, it's not the bike's fault."

"It's a bad design."

"No it isn't, I have 350,000 miles on my GS and it's like new".

:roll:

This is the sort of thing that completely killed my desire for a GS.

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=294123 (http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=294123)

[aeronca]

you know, as strainge as it sounds, i still wouldnt mind having a gs, as a second toy only, and only a pre98' pd. you can pretty much keep them though. i'll take my chain thank you very much. hey check out this guy from germany, he's a really cool dude, and a nice guy to talk to also
http://www.possi.de/ (http://www.possi.de/).    and now is the time on sprockets when we dance(try that beemer boy's) :D

[aeronca]

great picture of an fd failure on that adv link :lol:  yup, thank god for chains. hey stretch, i think i made them mad :P

[HappyMan]

An interesting ongoing thread on ADV... it's a free-for-all, with Kool-Aid drinking BMW robots going 'round and around with other owners about final drive failures, loose lugbolts, ABS failures, and servo brake lockups.

"The rear wheel fell off.  Loose lug nuts or final drive failure."

"No, it's not the bike's fault."

"It's a bad design."

"No it isn't, I have 350,000 miles on my GS and it's like new".

:roll:

This is the sort of thing that completely killed my desire for a GS.

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=294123 (http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=294123)

Honestly, you hear about the problems and don't hear about the successes and I think they whine way too much but it did drive me to another brand.  It wasn't the reason for me to change up and I'll probably buy another Beemer but the constant whining got to me.