Yes, absolutely. And being the flat twin boxer makes it easyer maintain and repair too. Valve adjustment is a breeze compared with V- or inline engines. Well, maybe only thing that's more sophisticated is the fuel injection that need a special electronics to be adjusted, but i haven't heard even 1 story that it ever has failed. But almost every up to date bike has fuel injection nowadays anyway.

But it's good the bike has separate gearbox and dry clutch rooms in engine - no need to change oils and filter that often (you can do easily +5000km after the manual recommends to change oil for sure with no problems - the oils are quite clean after additional mileage because there's no gearbox and clutch dirt inside it as other bikes usually have), so it's pretty welcome on remote areas where you can't get the oil changed right on time.

If your bike has then ABS and katalyser are the options that differ from others japanese too. But as well there's nothing to maintain there.

Oh almost forgot to tell - if you've been on the japs bikes - the BMW turn signals system need a bit practice (knobs on the two handlebars that first seem to be illogical). Lot of ironic fun with them on my first testdive with GS i remember . But now i even think them to be a bit better than japanese ones.

There's Clymer and Haynes manuals available for all R1100 models with competent price if you want to do all the work yourself and save some money skiping official BMW services...

Margus

[This message has been edited by Margus (edited 24 November 2004).]