Yea, I know why ... and a lot of other "why's" due to two good riding buddies who both worked at the local BMW dealer for years. Learned everything about BMW from the inside ...

I'm not sure it's actual law :confused1: ... certainly not here in USA ... But kudos for BMW for risking capital and lawsuits to move things forward. Early ABS was not great and had issues ... for about a decade.

But modern ABS is invisible and FANTASTIC. My '07 Tiger has it and I love it. But I HATE the complexity and cost of parts:
IE: The ABS "accumulator" gizmo is $700 usd!

This has already happened. In fact it's happened a couple times in the last 7 or 8 years. The latest, 3 years ago with the ouster of CEO Kunheim, a certified idiot. But it wasn't just Kunheim, everyone top to bottom was shuffled out. New crew brought in.

The new crew are MUCH better (IMHO), more forthright about problems, lots of truly new designs. The adverts will be what they will be ... like most all ads. Lots of BS hyperbole. But the bikes are better and BMW are making measurable steps forward and without Kunheim, a loose cannon who constantly embarrassed the whole company. (saying things like the competition in WSB are trivial and BMW would soon dominate, said the same
about Moto Cross and World Enduro )

Remember BMW 15 years ago repeatedly said they did not want to build "sports bike" like the Japanese, they claimed they appealed to a "different" sort of rider. Also had "no interest" in racing, as their customer base had "no interest" in racing. Oh my how things change!

Those days are long gone. My biggest worry regards BMW now is their penchant for heaping money into scooters that don't sell and lack of major factory racing efforts. (IOM teams all privateer)