Thanks Goggs, I think I can relax.
OK, I think that Simmo should write his name on his bike in big letters to make sure I don't accidentally park next to the rotten mongrel and catch it's filthy diseases. Yuk!
I'm on my fifth BM now, all of which I've admittedly flogged before getting up to 70,000 k's, and I haven't had a final drive bearing problem yet, (apart from the last one, an R1100S, which had a shaft drive problem at around 35,000k's, sadly enough, a few weeks after the new owner bought it. Not sure if it was the final drive bearing though.)
It hadn't given any signals of trouble previously, (honestly!) and I have heard that it was the result of being packed with the wrong kind of grease from new. It wasn't a huge or expensive problem at home, but I can imagine it being a drama on the road somewhere a long way northeast of Nar-Nar Goon.
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