I agree - whilst there has been a lot of criticism here of BMW, which is entirely understanable if you are unfortunate enough to be one of the unlucky owners who have had faults, however, I am on my third GS1200 and all has been good. Not perfect and I have had recalls but I have never enjoyed myself quite so much on a bike. It has never let me down, and always excelled itself and embaressed others, or impressed them.
In fact where I am at work in my unit, if you take the GS across all of its models, is the singularly most popular motorcycle, with very little complaints at all. Again, some issues, but there must be over twenty of the things and the issues are few and far between. When I had a leaky seal, BMW footed the bill out of warranty (thanks to Steve at Coopers TW), and my new one is just two years old without any main issues, recalls and poorheated grips aside, 14k and going superb.
One of the guys at work with an FJ1300, who has owned it from new, has had a number of more serious issues, and is really frustrating for him. Battery problems, starting problems, corrosion problems, broken centre stand problems (ruining his fairing), and this week the rear suspension knuckle joint collapsed on him and he nearly died. Each time he looks up the issue and he finds that it is well documented somewhere and a known fault with updated parts etc. He even found that the suspension parts were in stock as it is such a regular occurance! In fact it could be an entry here on this forum if you changed it from FJR to GS!!!!!!!!
But I still reckon that FJR are cracking bikes, so in all of this there is an element of luck- and if you are lucky then you think yours is the best ever.
My two penny worth anyhow.
JH
I was last in Edinburgh in 1951!
