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<blockquote data-quote="user 213" data-source="post: 1160645" data-attributes="member: 213"><p>An interesting term. Means under tested, under supervised engineers, and too many parts. The entire rear of the bike is crap. Single sided swing arm? Probably a marketing decision to make the bike look different. Never mind there is no valid reason to have it. Para-lever rear end? Para-broken is more like it. Too many parts, too high maintenance, too flawed in design, under supported bearing housing, and on and on. Before defend BMW, go look up the scheduled maintenance interval for wheel bearings. That one exists at all is an admission of the crap quality they use.</p><p></p><p>BMW has told their dealers that they are focused on buyers with excess disposable income that will upgrade to the next year bike every year and only ride 1000 miles a year, so dealers should be happy to make profits on all the low mileage used bikes. The guy that rides it for hundreds of thousands of miles "doesn't help the BMW bottom line".</p><p></p><p>Why is this thread on a FJR forum anyway. I realize some FJR owners are also paperweight owners, but we don't discus paperweights, do we?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 213, post: 1160645, member: 213"] An interesting term. Means under tested, under supervised engineers, and too many parts. The entire rear of the bike is crap. Single sided swing arm? Probably a marketing decision to make the bike look different. Never mind there is no valid reason to have it. Para-lever rear end? Para-broken is more like it. Too many parts, too high maintenance, too flawed in design, under supported bearing housing, and on and on. Before defend BMW, go look up the scheduled maintenance interval for wheel bearings. That one exists at all is an admission of the crap quality they use. BMW has told their dealers that they are focused on buyers with excess disposable income that will upgrade to the next year bike every year and only ride 1000 miles a year, so dealers should be happy to make profits on all the low mileage used bikes. The guy that rides it for hundreds of thousands of miles "doesn't help the BMW bottom line". Why is this thread on a FJR forum anyway. I realize some FJR owners are also paperweight owners, but we don't discus paperweights, do we? [/QUOTE]
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