Remember that GoldWing?

The one that I bought that I still haven't got running right?

Well, I seem to have accidentally bought a Vetter fairing and Samsonite
luggage set for it.

Help meeeeeeee...

Think I'd better give RS a call on Monday, I seem to need quite a lot of
yellow paint.

 

Nigel Eaton says...

I'd cut your losses if I were you, and call a shrink instead.

 

Sheeit. Hippo squared.

You're beyond it, mate. Long away.

Oh dear me. Going to give that virginal spraygun a workout, then?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip

Oh yes. Cubed possibly. Fancy a VolvoRun to Tamworth tomorr^H^H^H^H^H^H
later this morning? (I get bored easily on car journeys).

Ho yuss.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

I'll take no shit from you, CeeBeeBoy.

 

Nigel Eaton says...

The CeeBee prolly cost a third of what your fairing did, and it has run
for 3 years, take the shit hanky-waver

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

Yes, but. Err... Ummm... Err...

FOYRNB

 

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\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
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'^' RBR-Visited:35 Pts: 705 Miles:2429

 

I would - but we have small boy birthday happenings here today and I
think I may be missed. Then murdered.

 

Funny, I thought from reading another thread that wings never went wrong
and were indestructible )

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Tim says...

No, no, no, that's BMWs

 

Oh no, two of mine were quite unreliable.
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Tim says...

See, I keep fucking telling people but they don't believe me.

 

You do, don't you...

I keep replying that in 2 years and around 40k miles I've had one
problem. But, then again my experience is limited to the K100 and it's
undeniable that some of the R series had shitty valves that lost their
heads and wreaked havoc with the engines.

What I would say though, is that I've never ridden anything through a
winter before that emerged in (just about) the same state that it
entered- bearing in mind I don't find the time to wash off salt spray
etc. Previous bikes I've used over a winter- GPZ600, GT750, CB250RS
emerged in a sorry state, admittedly it's due to my negligence but I'd
maintain it also shows that in my experience (limited to two K100s) that
the BMW finish is more suited to winter neglect than Japanese bikes.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
typed

Fucking *hell*! Look at the speed of that float...

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, foyrnb

FOYRNB, foyrnb.

 

Barely a bite.

 

I'm beginning to see a few minor disadvantages to using this posting
name....

 

A bite implies some degree of irritation. I've just presented the bare
facts from my experience. I've also shown my knowledge of flaws of BMW
reliability. I don't accept that BMWs are a paragon of reliability but
I also don't accept that they are inherently unreliable.

If simply refuting a statement I believe is incorrect is classified as a
'bite' then I'd suggest more than half of the posts on this NG are
bites.

So there.