Well, here's an update for you. I did purchase another one, as I wanted quartz blue my dealer sourced a BMW employee bike, he knew the person it was leased to and the 6 month old bike had done 202 miles from new and had sat in the employees garage. It looked a peach until the following year the engine started to bubble in the usual places. BMW replaced the engine with no quibble, the bike had been ACF 50'd from collection and not ridden between November and April (I have a 22 year old R1100RT for that) Still got the RT and still very happy with the gadgets and performance, would just be happier if they sorted out the build quality rather than cutting corners and trying to squeeze every penny (or cent) out of it for profit.