Yep but I didn't spend £700 on the ESA option to find out it was crap, in the first place
I'd never buy a bike with ESA and Cookie has always been right
Straight to Ohlins or Wilbers..............job done
It's not as simple as that. The Dynamic ESA on my 2013 GS is very plush and is much better than the ESA systems on my previous '09 and '11 plate GSes. More than that, it actually provides a better ride quality than my wife's '63 plate VW Tiguan. There may well be some bikes with suspension faults and there may well be some people with unrealistic expectations.....
WRONG!
It is that simple. I'm on my 2nd Sachs equipped TE and it's still harsh on broken/rippled road surfaces.
I still own several BMW's with WP ESA and they are sooo much better than my 2014 TE
As for unrealistic expectations,I expect at over 15K,a bike that delivers in EVERY respect. Oddly enough there are a lot of Multistrada owners having the same complaints about the Sachs set up also used on Ducati's.
Sachs feels cheap and nasty. Probably because it is.
I don't see any point in mentioning your wife's car,this is a motorcycle forum.
Listen sunshine, you've clearly not learned that I don't do "wrong".
Let me reiterate - both my 2013 TE and my son's 2014 TE provide excellent ride quality, as indeed do the two other TEs that I've ridden. Having owned five GSes in total, to date, two of them equipped with ESA and one with Dynamic ESA, I think I'm in a better position to judge.
The fact that you don't see any point in me mentioning my wife's car is an indication of the limitations of your perception and imagination. So, let me spell it out for you. Having ridden all manner of motorcycles over the last 40 years, I've come to expect a certain standard of ride quality even from some of the Ohlins equipped machines that I've owned and ridden. Rarely does that approach the quality of even some of the stiffer Bilstein suspended cars I've owned. However, I recently had occasion to ride the same piece of bumpy, rural road and drive it in my wife's Tiguan with its 17" wheels and non-sports suspension, on the same day. I found myself driving along thinking the car was quite a lot stiffer than I'd remembered until I realised that I was comparing it with the very plush ride that my GS had provided ealier in the day.
You are making ridiculous, sweeping generalistions on the basis of limited information. That's never a wise thing to do.
"Listen sunshine, you've clearly not learned that I don't do "wrong"." -Who the F**K do you think you are?
Now on my 2nd WC bike and as I've already pointed out,still own WP equipped BMW bikes,I'm not making "sweeping generalisations"
My opinions are based on MY finding on several different BMW's.
Leave the cars out of it.
I would at this point like to apologise for having any opinions that conflict with you own thoughts.
You are obviously a higher entity and we all bow to you.
If no one else is allowed an opinion based on experience,just start your own form,be the only member,then you'll be right every time.
You see, even lower forms of life have some capacity for learning......
