one of the reasons that manufacturers like BMW have services intervals at 6,000 miles is due to brake pads wearing out before the service interval is up
this saves them a fortune having to replace discs and pads under warranty
any longer intervals would cost them plenty
simples
I don't think so, pads are consumables - like tyres, if you wear them out you should get them changed. As previously stated, will the tyres be a warranty item, or should I ride until they burst and start running on the rims and expect a new wheel / tyre under warranty at the next service.
I can see why S1000's / R1's etc "May" need servicing at 6k, if the performance is being used they probably need it. Also compared to my car (12 months / 20k miles) most bikes have a combined clutch / engine / gearbox and the oil does far more work than in a car where the engine oil and Gearbox oil are sperate and the clutch has no oil.
The tighter tolerances should mean less piston blow by and therefore less shite in the oil, but I understand the clutch is now wet on the new bike this may explain why it did not alter.
Another issue is that 6k is assumed to be a large number of miles for a bike and for most owners this is less than a years worth (and 2,3 or even 4 years for quite a number of bikers)
I can remember many bikes with 3k-4k service intervals, some still are but generally they have improved, not sure about Triumphs 10k regardless of age philosophy, more of a marketing stunt IMO, but 10k / annually would be fine on most bikes I reckon.
Unless you must have the BMW Dealer History doing Oil changes yourself is a way of saving huge amounts, a £200 6k service can be done for under £50 and you only need an oil filter wrench, couple of sockets to do it yourself (and ideally a torque wrench - but the f***** dealers never use one so why should you
) I do most work myself and prefer to do so, the little jobs get done (Like cleaning calipers and greasing suspension linkages) and everything is torqued up to spec.
The thing is for those who aren't that mechanically minded servicing on a well used commuter / touring bike is far too expensive and I can run my 2.0L 150BHP car for far less than a modest 600 - 700cc bike, even when paying for a dealer (non franchised) to service the thing, it cost me less in servicing between 30k and 70k (4 services / 3 MOT's) than the two services my GS had (12k / 18k) and would have been even cheaper had I not bought it overdue for one of those services.
The bike industry love to bang on about the Government ruining biking, but IMO they are half to blame themselves, the days of every UK male under 25 aspiring to the latest pocket rocket, signing up to 30% Finance and then doing 2k a year on it are gone, even those who have bikes as more a hobby than a form of transport (like me) expect some sort of value these days... probably more down to the average biker being the other side of 40 these days - older, wiser, tighter
BHP? There's extra stress without all the other performance enhancements.
