[roger albert]

he HP2 is sooooo much fun already as compared to the R11S, K12S, and R12S.........that its hard to believe a fork and chain can add very much.........

I'll agree with the Dr. on that. Lot's of ways to skin a cat. I'm not married to either one.
Pros and cons to each. I'm just saying, that I haven't spent years blindly worshipping the roundel and mocking bikes with telescopics and chains, and then immediately jumped on the bandwagon the second the chain and forks are faired by something with a roundel. That is the only thing I'm saying is mental illness. And ONLY to people who are that narrow minded and hypocritical.

Chewie, I talk pretty much the same way in person and on here. Not sure what basis you have to blather about what I would or wouldn't say in person. I'm friendlier in person, but only because 90% of folks you meet in real life aren't so hypocritical as a very very select few are here.

Nothing wrong with being a fan. I've had up to 5/6ths of my bikes be BMWs before and run a shop specializing in BMWs. I'm not sure how someone not at least a little narrow minded or mentally off could think I'm not a fan or want BMW to fail. I've put my money and career where my mouth is on that, and have left a much more lucrative field to work on mostly beemers. I walk the walk just as much as I talk (which is admittedly a-lot / too-much) I just don't buy into slavish, lockstep, all-hail-the-roundel, knee-jerk automatic praise. Or disparage people who don't blindly march in lock-step with me. Proud of that too.