When things go well without a glitch life is good when one spends so much cash on any bike and it has an issue it becomes a problem and then the research on why it had this problem starts.
Soon it blossoms into finding other issues with the bike from other owners on other forums and it becomes a POS bike and becomes a bike bashing Witch hunt candidate.
This is like everything in life, you can do 100.000 things right get praised for it and one thing wrong and next your getting dissected, put under the management microscope and branded a compromised tool in the work force.
This was my saying when I was a Line cook for 25+ years (One day your a rock star and the next day your a piece of SH*T).
I have never thought one bike I owned was the best or the worse it was the fun factor and how easy it is to do your own work on it.
We hear all the stories about the BMW Drive Gernading catching fire or falling off.
Does not mean this happens to every bike.
the Tenere has clutch basket issues is somewhat under powered to me and is not a quick and flashy as my 1050 Tiger was, but I like what it does and it does it well. My Tiger had one issue for me (Shifter linkage) but others found many other issues with the the Tiger it had 45+k on it when I got hit on it.
Have we forgot all the hours we spent toying with them points and condensers adjusting valves more than we would like to playing with drum breaks rebuilding top ends on the two stokers (My Suzuki GT 750 was a Wiseco muncher but I raced the thing).
I get the looks from every group of different owners and not just BMW riders but from personal observation they do tend to snub at you more as if your on a inferior machine, this is a fact and i don't know why.
I have the WaspWorks sticker saying "Official BMW recovery vehicle" Do i believe that? hell no.
I have had Harley guys slow down when i was on the side of the road taking a break and ask if I was OK, I do the same for anyone looking stranded. it's the brotherhood of Motorcyclist and is still alive and well.
Enjoy what you ride and keep the rubber side down.
And if the oncoming rider doesn't respond to your wave hold off until he passes and then flip them the finger and whisper "Stuck up bastard"!