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FJR Rides and Gatherings
Long Distance Riding/Iron Butt Rally
IBR Failures
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<blockquote data-quote="Lonerockz" data-source="post: 635958" data-attributes="member: 18868"><p>Dan, man I hope your wrong! Based on my causal observation folks riding bikes less than 10 years old that have their regular maintenance done don't have that many failures. I just did a Great Lakes Challenge (~2500 miles) with 30 other riders. The only mechanical issue was the guy on the 80's rebel 250(!). His tail light kept vibrating apart. There were a large variety of bikes and no issues. Most of these folks rode more than a 1000 miles to get to the start of the GLC. I would hope that in most cases well maintained bikes will do 3000 miles no problem.</p><p></p><p>Now on the IBR (and similar events), these bikes are being pushed to the limit. They are not designed for continual running over multiple days. Lubricants break down; metal fatigues; people forget maintenance tasks. In addition many folks have farkle induced failures. Now much has been made of the BMW final drive issue. I think the real problem here is that this is a really expensive part that should not be exhibiting failures like it does. Now BMW has no problem selling bikes. I am sure that they are looking into the issue, but not with much urgency. If they figure it out it will be rolled out quietly and as a new model year part. Otherwise thousands in recall costs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lonerockz, post: 635958, member: 18868"] Dan, man I hope your wrong! Based on my causal observation folks riding bikes less than 10 years old that have their regular maintenance done don't have that many failures. I just did a Great Lakes Challenge (~2500 miles) with 30 other riders. The only mechanical issue was the guy on the 80's rebel 250(!). His tail light kept vibrating apart. There were a large variety of bikes and no issues. Most of these folks rode more than a 1000 miles to get to the start of the GLC. I would hope that in most cases well maintained bikes will do 3000 miles no problem. Now on the IBR (and similar events), these bikes are being pushed to the limit. They are not designed for continual running over multiple days. Lubricants break down; metal fatigues; people forget maintenance tasks. In addition many folks have farkle induced failures. Now much has been made of the BMW final drive issue. I think the real problem here is that this is a really expensive part that should not be exhibiting failures like it does. Now BMW has no problem selling bikes. I am sure that they are looking into the issue, but not with much urgency. If they figure it out it will be rolled out quietly and as a new model year part. Otherwise thousands in recall costs. [/QUOTE]
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