Re: Wish List

[Steve Makohin <wateredg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/10/04 4:37 PM, Bruno Valeri bvaleri@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "BMW Oilhead List" <oilheads@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11:37 AM
>Subject: Wish List
>
>
>> The reason you're not willing to cough up more money for a new
>> one is because your old bike is still working very well. You should
>> have purchased one of the state of the art Japanese sport bikes
>> that's obsolete even before the next model year, then you'd be
>> itching to take out another installment loan.
>
>Well, maybe 2 main reasons why they become "obsolete".
>One is that Japanese bikes keep getting improvements in
>performance.
>The other is that styling changes more often.
>
>But being "obsolete" doesn't diminish their performance in any
>way.    :)
>A 1993 VFR or Fireblade still are good performers. My 929 still
>has plenty of performance. The newer bikes don't negate that for
>me. But they keep making them better.

I used to be a "wannabe musician" in my twenties, and I had a boatload of 
gear (synthesizers, drum machines, recording equipment, etc.) I once 
mentioned to a sales guy that these synths are outdated as soon as I buy 
them. He said with a smirk "want an instrument that is always 
state-of-the-art? Get a banjo ;-)"

In the same spirit, if you want to get a motorcycle that stays 
"state-of-the-art" for a long time, buy a BMW ;-) This new R1200GS is 
arguably the most "radical" change since the introduction of the 1993 
R1100xx <ducking and running>.

- -Steve

 Oakville, Ontario, Canada
 2000 R1100S/ABS, Mandarin

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