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BMW: The Ultimate Asshole Machine.. now with more assholery to assholes too! (Their motorcycles had a better rep until now.)
by burnt-resistor 9mo ago
BMW: The Ultimate Asshole Machine.. now with more assholery to assholes too!
(Their motorcycles had a better rep until now.)
- M95D 9mo ago> Their motorcycles had a better rep until now. No they didn't. Driveshafts are notoriously bad. It's the kind of failure that leaves you on foot in the middle of nowhere.
- burnt-resistor 9mo agoOld ones then. Is this new ones? Which model year range?
- M95D 9mo agoIs 2025-10-15 recent enough? https://www.rideapart.com/news/776212/bmw-r1300rt-cardan-shaft-recall/ https://www.rideapart.com/news/776212/bmw-r1300rt-cardan-sha...
- burnt-resistor 9mo agoI wonder how many lemon law lawyers were involved before that happened.
- buildsjets 9mo agoI suppose that depends on your definition of “now”. BMW has had a 20 year history of fork lower failures on their adventure bikes. Just search “BMW Fork Failure” and you will find a lot of discussion. Here was a Microsoft friend’s wreck in Alaska, which I believe was one of the earliest ones. Front wheel complete separated while she was riding straight and level on a paved road. https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/crash-in-destruction-bay-yt.371650/ https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/crash-in-destruction-bay-...