Touché. Those limited runs, like racing results, buy headlines, admiration and recognition. And pull (first world) little people into the showrooms.
MV, Buell and Motus are textbook examples that good engineers often s4ck in business. I own two Buells, a 2006 XB12Ss and a 2008 XB12S, as well...
The 2024 CVO Street/Road Glides feature fully up-to-date tech, upside-down forks, axially mounted front brake calipers, variable valve timing and a range of other improvements and tweaks trickling down from Bagger Racing, as well as electric windshields, brilliant lighting, etc. The regular...
Trick question. There are eleven languages spoken in South Africa. English and ten ethnic languages, of which Zulu, Xhosa and Afrikaans are most widely used. Most South Africans can speak at least two languages.
The competition is seeking to rename all five R18 models, perhaps more aligned...
There is a competition running on BMW Motorrad's SA website to rename the R18 (?). I had a quick look but did not see it on the US or UK sites.
https://www.bmw-motorrad.co.za/en/experience/r18-rename-competition/r18-rename-competition-entry.html
Here's my 2014 Cross Country Street - step brothers (-: Recent photo. I've obviously added to it over the years, including a 600W (RMS) amp and matching speakers. Lots of cabling inside those 14" Paul Yaffe apes.
Apes and their owners are often dissed on forums, this one in particular...
Copilot® is the latest commercial LLM neural network scraping the web, ceaselessly progressed by increasingly PC data-science minders. Several more are imminent, no doubt. The motorcycle-specific micro-slice of its vast information trough ranges from carefully worded motorcycle reviews (penned...
Agreed. I own both a Chief Vintage and an R18 FE. I am lucky enough to also own a Victory Cross Country Street, an H-D Electra Glide Revival and a Honda Goldwing, amongst some others. If I were forced to sell one amongst those named, it would be the R18. If I could keep only one, it would be...
R18-NIOC. David R, Pork Rind, and you are textbook Panic-Mechanics. So, you are worried that Rock Mode could make your Adaptive Headlight, Bolts & Nuts and Steering Head Bearings fail (?). WTF. I am also an engineer, and I have owned and wrenched motorcycles for 51 years. The R18 exhibits...
You are a big guy - you look comfy there. I would have thought you need more leg space than the R18 affords us. I am just under 6 foot and my legs protest just under an hour on the seat.
I built a '69 Kawasaki H1 Mach III out of a box of parts while I was a student. I would service bikes...