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Originally Posted by mollydog
Sorry Margus, no one takes BMW seriously. Zero credibility in any race environment. This is just the reality, not hyperbole.
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If you are taking race pedigree and translating that into taking a brand seriously, I think you need to wake up. Winning races may be very impressive but it has nothing to do with day to day riding any more than race bikes have anything to do with day to day bikes. Take KTM. They make great race bikes, but their road bikes have been fraught with reliaiblity issues... Ditto for Ducati....
What do you care if a marque pitches itself as "superior"? Honda have been doing it for ages, compared to the other big jap 4....
BMW have a small portion of the market, they sell bikes and have been for decades. If they were no good, they would have gone out of business... You don't last on Marketing alone for 60 years or so: look at the MGs cars of the UK. If you make a crap product you can bluff it for a while, but not for that long. Yet they are still here making very good, everyday, real world bikes.
I would find your arguement far more plausibleif you claimed that BMs were no better than others, rather than claiming they are crap: they clearly are not.
I hope this is not because someone on a BM called you names once... feels like a vendetta!!
Whether they are any better than others is another story, but they certainly hold their own....
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