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Originally Posted by Nigel Marx
Now there's a strange thing! I have had getting close to a hundred travellers stay with me over the last five or six years, and most of them were on singles. And in fact almost ALL the singles had got them this far (NZ) without major dramas. As had those riding twins (except for BMW GSs of the earlier Oil-Head series who had almost without exception needed major gearbox and driveshaft repairs). How do you supose that's the case? As a point of interest I had the Bike Brothers from the Netherlands stay with me for a week and while they were there, they took the head off one of their DRs to replace the head gasket to fix and oil leak. what's so special about that? Well it was the first time the head had come off and the bike had done about 170,000km!! The other bike had had the head off once before but I guess you could forgive that because that one had done nearly 200,00km. By the time they had both got home, the bikes had done nearly 210,000km. So neither bike had had lots of money spent of them to get them that far. And as another aside, I have two friends who were bike couriers in London who rode XT600s, and a friend who was a mechanic at Metropol Motorcycles under the Vauxhall bridge, and he says plenty rode singles.
I guess what I'm saying is to go easy of the sweeping and judgement statements, as it's a big world out there. There are a lot of exprienced people on the HUBB who have spent a lot of time on bikes too (maybe a lot more than you?).
Regards
Nigel in NZ
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I like the last sentence, meant to be kind of a put down I guess.
Water off a ducks back mate.
I expected similar replies before I even posted my thoughts.
The guy who started the thread wanted opinions, so I gave my honest one.
Like I already said, the singles vs twins debate could be debated endlessly.
You just have a different opinion thats all.
Doesn't make you right sport.
Not saying I am right either, just my personal experiences and observations.
I've been riding on and off road in Oz and many other countries for over 25 years now so I guess I've picked up a minor bit of knowledge here and there.
You know of singles that have lasted over a 100 thousand kilometers, almost trouble free. I do not.
You know of air cooled Boxers that have required major work, yeah so do I.
But I know of a lot of Boxers that have not as well.
I'm not going to argue about it.
If you took my post as a personal affront...well that's just too bad mate.
One can always expect differing opinions from ones own on Internet forums, If you can't chill don't chat.
There's no need to make personal observations about other posters.
I made observations about certain kinds of bikes, not the people who ride them.
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