Re: Re: Re: Would you have bought your Tenere if it was the same price as a BMW 1200GS?
autoteach said:
This is like saying " She is a remarkably well polished, thoughtful young lady... who occassionally craps her pants and tells you to go f$ck yourself"
Can we define the word "refinement" and then the items that you would like to classify as "more refined" before we use it in a subjective manner.
Great metaphor and very appropriate. No argument except the young lady probably only craps her pants or throws a tantrum once a year or so... might be worth it, especially if she's hot?
What I meant by refinement is the "feel" of the bike, which is of course subjective in and of itself, but a big part of the experience of motorcycles. Rasher covered it pretty well, but in my experience the switchgear and controls feel very high quality, the steering is light, the brakes will yank your eyeballs out with one finger (on the RT, not sure about the GS), and the boxer engine is very smooth when cruising. Superb comfort on the RT. Very little grumble, or coarse vibes. When you open it up of course you feel them, but they are big pulses and the bike has tons of torque. The camhead (2010+) makes a gorgeous booming snarl when you get on it that makes you want to repeat with regular frequency... they have simply done an excellent job of refining the bike so it tells you what you want/need to hear, without muddying up the message.
I just felt there was a lot of BMW bashing going on based on hearsay or by those who hadn't spent much time on the more recent models which are really fine (and expensive) motorcycles. No argument that they need more maintenance/repairs, sometimes big ones.
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