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Dr_X

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« Reply #30 on: 10 September 2009, 20:37:22 »

Why BM in my experience you are either a bm man or not...my mate had an R8 for years i couldn't imagine him on anything other than a BM, i wouldn't own a BM in a million years.
Why are you up for one???
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« Reply #31 on: 10 September 2009, 20:43:15 »

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Why BM in my experience you are either a bm man or not...my mate had an R8 for years i couldn't imagine him on anything other than a BM, i wouldn't own a BM in a million years.
Why are you up for one???

They are big, comfy, eat the miles, fast, go any ware. Most bikes feel like monkey bikes for me, the Adventure just felt right in so many ways!
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« Reply #32 on: 10 September 2009, 20:46:55 »

dealer is without doubt THE most expensive way of buying a bike, or anything else for that matter.

They will obviously have incentives, any warranty claim is always hard work to get sorted, and guarantee you will want something else by the time it runs out. So not worth buying in the first place. And if its that old a design it should be well sorted by now.

Its hard if your heart is set on something to say no. But having made your mind up. Take the opposite view and look at reasons why not to buy it. If you still have the same answer at the end fair enough imho.

 But ffs dont spend that amount on it. Its your cash mate, and i actually quite like the look. But like the dealers its all ancentive, when you get down to it, money for old rope, and they know it. Hence their presence in wsb perhaps? What comes of that should be very interesting, but not of your taste i guess.

If you ride one, look down, youll see the cylinders are not in line due to the crank pin offset, obviously, but made me laugh i can tell you, and when you blip the throttle you can feel the bike move to one side due to engine rotation. Days of steam.....almost.
Oh and of course the cylinder heads for crash bungs.
 

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« Reply #33 on: 10 September 2009, 20:49:07 »

first off your money your choice!!
2nd, they are a cracking bike to ride,
comfy reliable mile muncher
 good reliability
easy to service at home
parts availability excellent and easy to get hold of
if a bit pricey from stealers, but loads of specialist at around half the price of the stealer
one reservation from me though
have you got any insurance quotes yet? given your age and experience it may be a bit pricey?

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« Reply #34 on: 10 September 2009, 20:50:18 »

I didn't catch how tall you are but i guess 6.5 or there abouts and have been racking my brain for something big and i just couldn't think of anything, trouble is bikes are just getting smaller and smaller every year.
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« Reply #35 on: 10 September 2009, 20:57:43 »

I would if I had the money but wouldn't buy that bike personally  :)
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« Reply #36 on: 10 September 2009, 21:04:50 »

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At the end of the day I eckon you have allredy decided you are buying the bike. So my question is now this.  Why take on 70% of it on finance when you allready have the cash in savings.  Only reason I can see isa taxable benifit, but then you can only claim the work mileage in benfits/costs etc.  At the end of the daay, if no benifit tax wise then why let the finance company make money from you?

To spread the cost, i will continue to build my house deposit fund. With Sky i get to expense all travel costs, so i won't actually be spending much of my pay cheque, so it makes it very affordable.

Costs about £960 for the loan over the 3 years which is not too bad i think.
so use the car (which you will until spring anyway - bikes soon suffer if used in winter, assuming you can handle the cold and a big top heavy bike in the poor weather

It did'nt feel top heavy at-all, i was even filtering at speeds of less than 5mph, with my feet on the pegs.

Have you actually ridden one?
One of the big boxer style beemers, yes. Not sure if it was that particular model  :-[

You should be able to ride any bike at 4mph with ease - that, if you recall, should have been part of your CBT ;)
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« Reply #37 on: 10 September 2009, 21:08:43 »

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I would if I had the money but wouldn't buy that bike personally,I would buy another 25 fizzies  :)

what are you like? ::)
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« Reply #38 on: 10 September 2009, 21:14:08 »

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not needed  ;D

7k on fiance works out at about £220 a month, so just over 2.6k a year to pay back, over 3 years. Which is very affordable.

* may be affordable but you pay the total anyway..

* in the long term this payments will effect your life..

* yeah it may be really fast but this means more danger..

* I agree with STMO, go buy a car..
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« Reply #39 on: 10 September 2009, 21:21:05 »

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first off your money your choice!!
2nd, they are a cracking bike to ride,
comfy reliable mile muncher
 good reliability
easy to service at home
parts availability excellent and easy to get hold of
if a bit pricey from stealers, but loads of specialist at around half the price of the stealer
one reservation from me though
have you got any insurance quotes yet? given your age and experience it may be a bit pricey?

If i wait like a good boy and let me gain 1 years NCB, it will be very little to change, maybe £50 a year more  :o

Agree about riding it, sooo much fun!

@chris - yes dealers are expensive, but reading the GS forums, there have been nothing but praise for the BMW warrenty, can't speak of cars, but people who had shaft drive failures or fuel pumps go have them replaced without question. Even someone who never checked their oil and a gearbox seal went, had a whole new engine and box on warrenty!

Also looking on Autotrader, the markup at the dealers is not that much, maybe around £500-1k.\

Dr X - I am 6ft4  ;)

Cem - Show me a car, that does 50mpg, 0-60 in 3.2 seconds, goes off road, and is really comfy for 10k?
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« Reply #40 on: 10 September 2009, 21:29:35 »

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first off your money your choice!!
2nd, they are a cracking bike to ride,
comfy reliable mile muncher
 good reliability
easy to service at home
parts availability excellent and easy to get hold of
if a bit pricey from stealers, but loads of specialist at around half the price of the stealer
one reservation from me though
have you got any insurance quotes yet? given your age and experience it may be a bit pricey?

If i wait like a good boy and let me gain 1 years NCB, it will be very little to change, maybe £50 a year more  :o

Agree about riding it, sooo much fun!

@chris - yes dealers are expensive, but reading the GS forums, there have been nothing but praise for the BMW warrenty, can't speak of cars, but people who had shaft drive failures or fuel pumps go have them replaced without question. Even someone who never checked their oil and a gearbox seal went, had a whole new engine and box on warrenty!

Also looking on Autotrader, the markup at the dealers is not that much, maybe around £500-1k.\

Dr X - I am 6ft4  ;)

Cem - Show me a car, that does 50mpg, 0-60 in 3.2 seconds, goes off road, and is really comfy for 10k?

Tunnie, if I made a children in my first marriage he/she would be in your age.. And I wish you /them to stay as a single piece in case of an accident..So forget 3.2 seconds and try to live longer.. Sorry.. :-/
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« Reply #41 on: 10 September 2009, 21:32:47 »

If you are careful you will survive, I had bikes from 16 to 27, was a late starter with cars.
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« Reply #42 on: 10 September 2009, 21:37:58 »

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Cem - Show me a car, that does 50mpg, 0-60 in 3.2 seconds, goes off road, and is really comfy for 10k?

Diesel Westfield. :y

OK, it doesn't go off road desperately well, but why would you want to?  ;D

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cem_devecioglu

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« Reply #43 on: 10 September 2009, 21:42:11 »

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If you are careful you will survive, I had bikes from 16 to 27, was a late starter with cars.

Sorry Martin but there is no guarantee for that..

Those bikes are for speed.. Nobody buy them to use like a grandma..

They can reach enormous speeds within an eye flicker time.. So I say buy a car and have at least a chance in case of bad.. :-X
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« Reply #44 on: 10 September 2009, 21:48:24 »

W are not here for a long time Cem,we are here for a good time. ;) ;D
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