just seen all your comments, very much appreciated. thank you esp sgtB, roddy, nice, archim, johnny, cookie, jpb, teamwimp, rick, concept & myers. - and for the legal opinion. talk about going the extra mile
i love that GS and i love the ride. agonised before being persuaded to buy new. with hind sight i should probably have bought an older bike but that’s not important now. like a new lover, one is tempted to overlook some failings because when she performs, she is unlike anything one has ever been with. some might be tempted give her young italian cousin a try but I doubt she comes close to the barvarian. and how would she? BM have been crafting these kind of machines longer than anyone else and if i had to break hard on a corner i would rather be on a german
an elderly friend of mine rode a 1960 r27 around southern africa for years through deserts, locust storms, rivers etc with hardly a hitch. he said to me if you kept an eye on oil and tires she would be what real lovers seldom are – reliable. the old chap died in dec yet i know that white r27 is still out there somewhere with many original parts functioning just fine. sure it doesn’t have esa, it isn’t as comfortable, but its still going, right?
we all want the modern brand to keep performing. and i get that latest models must be made from parts not entirely 'german'. like other names that were once by-words for quality engineering, Bayerische Motoren Werke have had to face hash economic realities and find ways to cut costs like every one else. the one part i took time to examine seamed unforgivably badly designed. im no mech or elec engnr but that shitty fuel pump they replaced again is unlikely to work far beyond warrantee. i only have this new bike to go by (by no means a proper sample) there does appear to me to be an overall problem with quality, replacement parts and supply of these parts. but this is just my humble opinion and it wont carry weight in a legal dispute
the shortage of rear shocks is now into 6th week and it’s a separate issue. to insist one gets ones money back is indeed the right thing to do. it may even be good for the brand and good for future riders if every unsatisfied customer made a claim and puts up a fight. manufacturing standards would likely go up - not up a lot but just enough. its sad but it’s the only way to deal with such failings. i don’t expect the nice dealers will make it easy for us and why would they? they are caught in the middle. its up to us to do something.
thanks for the excellent discussion
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