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For sure there is a problem with the poll.
When you are not loged in, you can vote even on every make that is possible.
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Explain how that works please. I can't post anything on any thread without being signed in. How do you post or vote in a poll without being signed in?
EDIT~ WHOOPS ... you are right! you can vote when unsigned in over and over! How does that work?
(no wonder BMW are leading)
Ted, you need to start over!
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Something's a little odd; the sum of the % votes is 146.
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Something's a little odd; the sum of the % votes is 146.
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As I said:
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Another interesting feature is that the %-column is based on the numbers of owners and not owner of bikes so right now the sum is 125% 
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My tool!
Didn't do so well in the Patagonian winds ... 3rd time blown off!!
Handled the Dalton Highway no problem tho :-)
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Yikes... that heavy bike doesn't look very fun to pick up.
how fast were you going when it got blown over?
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Yikes... that heavy bike doesn't look very fun to pick up.
how fast were you going when it got blown over?
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LOL ... We were lucky, the three times we went over it wasn't long before another vehicle came along to give us a hand. The Ruta 40 isn't a very busy road in those parts, probably saw no more than 10-20 other vehicles in 700KM's.
Speed was down to about 40KMH at the best most of the time. We had been parked up in Tres Lagos for three days waiting for the wind to die down .. it did .. but not for long, we got about 5KM's out of Tres Lagos before it blew up again!! I'm sure we must have experienced close to 100KMH winds that day, took us 9 hours to ride 90KM's to Lago Cardiel
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Oh Christ !! Well it was only a bit of fun... If people chose to "tamper" the results with multiple fake votes, theres not much I can do about it !
It was just for a vague idea is all... Looks like the BMW marketting machine is indeed stronger than I thought !!
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It was just for a vague idea is all... Looks like the BMW marketting machine is indeed stronger than I thought !!
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It looks like there is a lot you haven't realized with BMWs
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It looks like there is a lot you haven't realized with BMWs 
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I know the important things !!
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I know the important things !! 
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I bought into the BMW thang, with the new boy on the block:
Not sure why Ted is so bitter and anti BMW?
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... Looks like the BMW marketting machine is indeed stronger than I thought !!

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Needs breaking down more before you can conclude that. I don't think BMW marketing will be as impressed with my 24 year old, matt black hand painted, mad-max styled brick as they would be with some of the E&C style bikes. I havn't bought anything from BMW since the 2003 walking season!
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Looks like the BMW marketting machine is indeed stronger than I thought !!

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I have a 21 year old BMW R100GS and a 2009 KTM 690. The BMW is still my travel bike but there is no way I would buy a Charlie & Ewan replica. In my view BMW have gone backwards since about 1998 and KTM have come to the front.
Old bikes and long owned bikes have many advantages as travel bikes.
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I have a 21 year old BMW R100GS and a 2009 KTM 690. The BMW is still my travel bike but there is no way I would buy a Charlie & Ewan replica. In my view BMW have gone backwards since about 1998 and KTM have come to the front.
Old bikes and long owned bikes have many advantages as travel bikes.
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+1
Having had a little walk in the desert related to an F650 water pump, I'd put the date the rot started a little earlier, about '93 where they'd dropped the last airhead and given up on the K as anything but and an autobahn bike. The crowning **** in the watercloset to me was the servo brake system which was dropped three years ago now? As hand held CAN devices are coming though, maybe in ten years I'll be back on an oilhead or F? I worked with vehicle electronics (ABS and Suspensions) for thirteen years, so it's the service departments support that scares me off, not the technology. When I can buy software patches from someone who doesn't work for BMW anymore I could well be back.
For now though I'm firmly on technology I know. A stroker you can repair with a swiss army knife, a Brick (24 years old, 23000 miles  , came with everything except a good sidecar body and leading links, in the process of Australianisation) and a Triumph that's really just airhead technology made six years ago.
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here we go again about how BMW can't make bikes anymore...
I'm not saying GS12s are the most reliable bike in the world--they are not--but they are certainly better than you make out, or least mine and many others' have been. While I wouldn't want to take one to Africa, etc., that is because it is too big and heavy, not because it is too unreliable.
Regarding the technology, hand-held diagnostic units are not coming, they are here in the form of the GS-911, which gets rave reviews. I recently got one but haven't had a chance to play around with it yet...
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