My own experience has taught me that!Pickaxe wrote: History suggests that new BMW models tend to have more than their share of teething problems. I'd buy the present model and wait a few years to see how the new model develops.
Yet to purchase, do I wait for the VVT model due out next year?
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Re: Yet to purchase, do I wait for the VVT model due out next year?
Vini, Vidi, Velcro....... I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Re: Yet to purchase, do I wait for the VVT model due out next year?
Another +1Pickaxe wrote: History suggests that new BMW models tend to have more than their share of teething problems. I'd buy the present model and wait a few years to see how the new model develops.
My wife purchased a 2004 R1200GS when they first came out but found getting it onto the centre stand a real struggle, me too and I am 6'4"! Within a year BMW redesigned the stand and it was so much better. I was thinking about getting a 2014 RT just at the time of the rear shock-absorber issue when lots of owners had to hand their bikes back for months. Ended up purchasing in March 2015.
The lesson we have taken is to plan to buy a year 2 or later bike.
2020 R1250RT, 2021 Triton ST-125, 1960 SII Land Rover.