Originally Posted by
IronPawz
I had a BMW F650 as my get back into bikes machine. I think it had about 80,000 to start and 130,000 when I traded it (still going needed some maintenance only). I head of them in Aussie with 300,000+ still going tour bikes. Mostly I'd like to credit the Japanese so great engineering and style. But nod to BMW for some of its mills. Seems most have court up now. Even Ducati I hear?
I met an old dude in Kalgorlie who had more than a million k's on his early 80's BMW whateverthehellitwas. A million k's. He'd been riding between Kal and Adelaide for almost 30 years. I thought of so many questions I should have asked him, like hasn't he heard of planes, or why live in Adelaide, or is his ass made of steel. At the time I was thoroughly impressed, speechless even - aside from punctures, the thing had never let him down once.
It’s diametrically opposed to the sanitised existence of the Lemmings around me in the Dilbert Cartoon hell I live in; it’s life at full volume, perfect colour with high resolution and 10,000 watts of amplification.
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