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I have an E90 335d, and had a few mechanics throw their hands up at its quirky errors. Before I reached the point of wanting to sell the car, I found a very supportive & well-versed FB group. Since then, I’ve been able to fix any issue that it’s thrown at me.

Sooner or later, we all take an asswhipping from a car we thought we could save.  If nothing else, you’ve learned something you can pass on to someone who needs help.

Amen Amen!  Before I bought a motovan, I showed up to a ton of trackdays with one of these in tow.  In a pinch, you can fit 3 sportbikes on/in it.

Good on him for recognizing how much good he can do with his platform, and then doing it.

The latest electronics won’t help if the stock forks/shock aren’t stiff enough for serious track riding - which is the case for almost all stock motorcycles, but especially the V4. The K5 has a decade and a half of development knowledge base - I’d bet its setup is 99% perfect for Ari’s weight/style/preferences. On the…

They’re launching the large SUV, the Gravity, soon after the Air sedan.

Check out the suspension on the K5 when they do the pans and close-ups.  It has K-Tech forks & an Ohlins shock - there’s your laptime answer.

Nobody (who’s worth listening to) will argue that the K5 wasn’t a near-perfect 1000. In fact, you can see it more or less note-for-note copied in the first gen S1000RR 5 years later. With that said, it’s a little incongruous to test a well set up bike with a built suspension (looks like K-Tech forks and an Ohlins…

I can’t give the steering wheel design a high five, but would 100% subscribe to this car’s OnlyFans.

Amen to that. All it took for me was one demo ride on a KTM Duke (roughlt eight million years ago)  to realize that it was one of the best pure expressions of motorcycling.

A bespoke engine, notoriously-complex AWD system, & a ton of miles?

I can’t believe that there won’t be at least one “heritage edition” or some such special model with (faux or not) wood paneling or accents on the side.  It’s the easiest nostalgia marketing slam dunk in the segment.

The SuMo is for sure a great subset of motorcycling, but I think it fits into the point I was making:  it’s much more focused on what it does than the sort of general, a bike-for-all-times vibe you get with this CB.   The Honda will probably do 80-90% of what a cruiser, sportbike, supermoto, and/or adventure bike will…

Every few years, we see a new UJM renaissance, reminding us that this is pretty much all the bike that any of us really need.  Writers/reviewers/blogs love them, but they almost never achieve the sales for which we’d hope.  I think it’s because, in something as emotional as a motorcycle purchase (especially in the…

I mean, just so we’re clear, I would never dream of tuning *MY* 335d’s ECU because it’s perfect just the way BMW made it, but I understand how other people would. . .

It doesn’t mean the ICE manufacturers aren’t any less active about it.  BMW’s diagnostic software now looks for aftermarket ECU tunes for presumably the same reasons.

Amen on all counts - from the old 3000gt/Stealth email community in the late 90s to the BMW Diesel FB group - my bacon has been saved many times by people I’ve never met.

Truly, the Thelma & Louise of BMW ownership.

If there was ever a reason to live dangerously in terms of reliability & flirt with financial disaster, this car is it. Even if the car ends up inert in your garage, it’s almost handsome enough to almost to make the purchase worthwhile.