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Originally Posted by RPKESQ
Welcome to the dark side! BMWs have always been one of the premier motorcycles made. They often did not have the style or "flash" of the British or Italian bikes, but they always were far more reliable and well built.
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Hopefully it'll live up to the reliable and well built part. The style actually is pretty strong with this bike - the artist approves and though it looked a lot better than the KTMs.
The biggest shock to me was the purchase experience. Best vehicle purchase ever. Respectful salesguy, no bs. We negotiated a fair price on the phone, did the paperwork mostly by fax. I showed up to pick the bike up and it was sitting on the showroom floor prepped and ready to go with my name on it (literally). Dale (the salesguy) walked me around the shop to show me the lay of the land (they've got the 1st BMW ever built along with a bunch of other cool old restored bikes), introduced me to other people who worked there, then we signed the papers, he showed me the various aspects of the bike and I was off.
And get this. I had wheels swapped before purchase (came with cast, I wanted spoke) and during that swap and the 600 mile service they forgot to calibrate the tire pressure monitoring system (the new wheels didn't have the sensors installed). I was already 50 miles away when I called them to ask about the error message. They profusely apologized and said to bring it right down and they'd sort it quickly. I was already on my way out of town so I said I'd bring it in next week. The next day I got an email from the salesguy apologizing again and offering to come pick up my bike at my office, take it back down to Orange (about 45 miles away), have the work done, then deliver it back to my office the same day. I said I'll ride it down later this week as I want to look at farkles
