Re: BMW event.
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 6:56 pm
I nearly went but was tied up with my youngest all weekend, and I can`t afford a BMW anyway sadly.
I love my silverwing, bit of odd handling asside etc, and I do like the simple do much of the servicing etc yourself type thing.
Just the letters BMW sound expensive to me.
Saying that my eldest son has an R1100RT he loves and bought it cheap enough.
But even when you go non BMW servicing you can pay out on it.
He recently took it in to small MC place for odd bits and 2 fork seals, only to find later he was charged for both but only one seal was done.
He just won`t go there again. £125 + for one fork seal is pretty serious I think ?
And doing the oil, oil filter, air filter and fuel filter was going to be £125 just for the labour not including the parts, oil etc so he left that. BMW ? etc.
Be interesting to see if we do come out of Europe if they disentangle all the hard going Motorcycle licience rules etc
But I somehow doubt it as they just imposed 116 new MOT rules from the EU they could of said we won`t bother thanks we`re off.
Best Mark.
I love my silverwing, bit of odd handling asside etc, and I do like the simple do much of the servicing etc yourself type thing.
Just the letters BMW sound expensive to me.
Saying that my eldest son has an R1100RT he loves and bought it cheap enough.
But even when you go non BMW servicing you can pay out on it.
He recently took it in to small MC place for odd bits and 2 fork seals, only to find later he was charged for both but only one seal was done.
He just won`t go there again. £125 + for one fork seal is pretty serious I think ?
And doing the oil, oil filter, air filter and fuel filter was going to be £125 just for the labour not including the parts, oil etc so he left that. BMW ? etc.
Be interesting to see if we do come out of Europe if they disentangle all the hard going Motorcycle licience rules etc
But I somehow doubt it as they just imposed 116 new MOT rules from the EU they could of said we won`t bother thanks we`re off.
Best Mark.