blue leader
Registered user
Well the time has come, after seven years and four GSs I have to give up on supporting the BMW brand.
The truth is that I can't justify spending anymore of my hard earned cash on machines that fail not through bad design but sadly the use of inferior quality components.
I feel that BMW are a victim of there own success in that they have developed great concepts and have taken the world by storm and seem to struggle to manage their quality control in an attempt to meet the demand for their products.
This last GS has proved to be a great bike as far as the ride goes but I really don't trust the bike anymore, last year at 10k I had to replace all the wheel bearings with better quality ones and at 11k my dealership replaced the headrace bearings with BMW items, all well and good I thought but sadly no, now at 15k the headraces are shagged again but the wheel bearings are all fine.
So what I take from this situation is that if BMW are willing to use crap bearings in critical areas such as wheels and steering where else have they put this crap? well I fear I already know as now the clutch is rattling and the camchain sounds like it's trying to saw it's way through the crankcase on start up!
Maybe some will laugh when I say the bike has been traded in for a KTM, but at the end of the day it can't be any worse than my last four steeds, and the sooner the japs come up with something to compete with the europeans then I will gladly be first in the queue to part with my cash.
Ride safe............Blue leader
The truth is that I can't justify spending anymore of my hard earned cash on machines that fail not through bad design but sadly the use of inferior quality components.
I feel that BMW are a victim of there own success in that they have developed great concepts and have taken the world by storm and seem to struggle to manage their quality control in an attempt to meet the demand for their products.
This last GS has proved to be a great bike as far as the ride goes but I really don't trust the bike anymore, last year at 10k I had to replace all the wheel bearings with better quality ones and at 11k my dealership replaced the headrace bearings with BMW items, all well and good I thought but sadly no, now at 15k the headraces are shagged again but the wheel bearings are all fine.
So what I take from this situation is that if BMW are willing to use crap bearings in critical areas such as wheels and steering where else have they put this crap? well I fear I already know as now the clutch is rattling and the camchain sounds like it's trying to saw it's way through the crankcase on start up!
Maybe some will laugh when I say the bike has been traded in for a KTM, but at the end of the day it can't be any worse than my last four steeds, and the sooner the japs come up with something to compete with the europeans then I will gladly be first in the queue to part with my cash.
Ride safe............Blue leader