Hey John, Thanks for letting me know about BMW motorcycles. I always rode Japanese motorcycles. I always preferred dual-purpose motorcycles and I never could afford one of those fancy Paris-Dakkar models.
One time a shop put on a Metzeler tire on my bike and it seemed to work fine.... till I tried to do a long cruise and the added weight pushed the muffler down onto the tire and caused a flat. It could have been a real bad situation. It taught me that I have to have confidence in the people I'm dealing with and to not just tell a shop to put a particular tire on just because it's 'cool.' I should have told that shop to outfit my bike with what fit. You would think you shouldn't have to tell a professional that you want something that actually fits. Needless to say I never went back to that shop. They were sloppy. I went to GNU/Linux because I wanted quality computing. The more I learn about operating systems, the more I appreciate OpenBSD. I've just loaded up -current on another computer. It looks nice. I was trying to add ports, but it got stuck and I had to go on to other things, so I look forward to getting ports going. have a good day, Daniel On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:42 AM, john slee <indig...@oldcorollas.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 7 September 2011 01:34, Daniel Villarreal <yclwebmas...@gmail.com> > wrote: > ... > > I was just studying production-line methods of Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz > > SLS Gullwing and Automobili Lamborghini Holding Spa's MurciC)lago. > > I'm glad Mercedes are careful about things. Unfortunately this is not the > case > for BMW, at least not their motorcycles. > > eg. with the F650GS single-cylinder bikes up to 2003 had a known problem > where the front wheel would occasionally separate from the rest of the > bike. > This is a fairly major problem to have, and IIRC at least one lady ended up > with a badly broken leg as a direct result. > > BMW's response was to do warranty replacements on the broken bikes, > admit no fault under any circumstances, yet the 2004 model suddenly had > a new design for the lower fork legs... There was no safety recall issued. > Most of the BMW dealers I've spoken to haven't even noticed the difference > in the forks, nevermind actually known about the problems. > > They seem to be great at building engines, and their bikes have wonderful > switchgear[1], and they have never hesitated to depart radically from the > motorcycling norm (look at their suspension designs!), but often the final > implementation of their good ideas is utterly woeful. > > Thinking about the above highlighted for me the aspect of OpenBSD that > attracted me. It's not enough to have good ideas. Implementation quality > and subsequent maintenance/support matters just as much, if not more. > > John > > [1] yeah, seems like such a small thing... but it's the first thing I > notice > whenever I ride a Japanese bike. Switchgear quality = awful
