The dieselboxer isnt that reliable in the best of times. I shudder to think what tuning it would do...

You really dont. The diesel boxer is trash. Compared to all other modern diesels ive driven its gutless. 

Are you being intentionally thick here? The dude litterally said people who knew better used his deadname even though he has gone by a new name since -96. He wasnt complaining that someone who knew him pre 96 and had no clue he changed his name called him by his deadname. He said his fucking extended family refused to…

Fair enough only problem is a keyless fob can be beaten by a program any nitwit could download of the interwebs while an more oldfashioned key actually takes skill to open.

In what way does being alive in the 80's stop you from having a viewpoint of the policies of the administration that was in charge back then? I wasn’t alive during the late 1500 yet I can be critical of the way the Catholic church persecuted Galileo. i wansnt alive during the 1950's yet i can think the way the british…

I mean not very many minivans. But atleast one :D

have you tried? Personally I’ve taken my 2003 africa twin around a motorcross track and some enduro tracks and while its dificult and i could never keep even half the pace i would keep on a proper bike its still fun in its own right. Ive also taken my 2000 R1150GS around some more advanced tracks and that was a ton of…

I Like the Orochi. its wierd in a very endearing way. (that custom one on the other hand i could do without)

Im not bitching that they are doing something new. Im more amazed that they went into the most competetive marketplace without seemingly have a plan to carve out a niche for themselves.

No clue :) I walked around the local Harley dealership earlier this year and looked at the bikes. But since im not truly interested in a Harley i couldnt tell you what they where called. All the bikes i saw looked fine but not better than what ive seen on BMW. Im not saying that harleys have bad paintjobs im saying…

From what ive seen of harley i may grant you the chrome part. But everything else on the harleys i saw when i took a stroll through the local harley showroom felt cheap. The matte black paint looked like plastic and the paints on the bikes where fine but nothing special.

For me its only perplexing. as you said GS folks are brand loyal to a fault. and the segment is practically overflowing with bikes filling niches.

I dont understand who this motorcycle is for. If its supposed to entice people off a BMW GS then it has to do something better than a GS.

Funny i kind of like Bäsk (the type of schnapps Malört is). then again i enjoy the occasional surströmming :)

I did some research aparently its a Bäsk (a swedish schnapps variety the name translates to bitter) thats been brought over during the time alot of Swedes emigrated to America (at one point more Swedes lived in Chicago than the second most populus city in Sweden).

[sorry if this pastes like shit, because copying from state PDF into Kinja is like eating shards of glass with a Malört chaser]

In pic nr 2 did you manage to catch Zach Courts of on two wheels?

I think you are mixing up paralever with Telelever. Paralever is the support strut on the swingarm that inhibits rise and squat of the rear suspension during acceleration and deacceleration. (sorry hopeless BMW geek)

Pish posh. You just need to practice and then riding a tall bike wont be a problem.

Not to be pedantic but the R1250 engine is the new one with shiftcam and has always been watercooled. You are probably thinking of the R1200R.