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I brought the Beemer home two weeks ago yesterday.....and I could see the chrome was going to need some attention. That's because polishing can be hard work......and as the Dagos have a genetic predisposition to avoid the aforementioned hard work......I knew it was going to take time. There's still a long way to go to restore it to a standard that I consider acceptable......but you can visibly see a difference in two weeks! Look at the rear silencer and the pipe in the first pic (2 weeks ago), then compare it to the second pic (today).

I knew it!

you're the only person I know who buys a bike from a shop, makes it better than it was when you bought it and then Px's it for another one. they probably sell them on for more than you paid for it. I bet you're his favorite customer

That's pretty much it, except here in Portugal finance for buying a BMW is usually way easier than other brands, that's why there are so many GSs on the streets here. People pay 220€ a month for a big GSA while for the same amount over at Honda they walk out with an NC500 or 750. Who cares how many payments, or if the final finance amount is huge, but they will either trade up for another one and carry on paying the same or just refinance the final payment. They end up spending 8 or 10 years paying for a bike that they use on some weekends just because you just have to have a BMW GS with cookie boxes for luggage. I know of a guy that just trades bikes before they get to 2 years old, he spends 1500 to 2000 every two years making the trade, and just keeps paying the same monthly payment. Somewhere there is a fool bigger than him buying a two year old bike, but only paying 1500 or 2000 less than full 25000 ticket price on a new bike. Even though this is how things are, it just doesn't make sense how they can unload all those used bikes on the market for such expensive prices, or why people wish to commit to so many payments on a bike. Unless it's a work vehicle, you buy it and you ride it.

I was talking to a guy the other day, who is a little involved with a Honda / BMW dealership, and he says people don't even care much about the spec of the bike they're buying as long as it's there and ready for the next day as long as finance is available. We're talking all price ranges, which to me is insane.

I'm not saying your bike wasn't super clean, but bikes have been selling like hotcakes since the first time cities started going out of confinement.

I can't even take a bar end bolt off.......and I don't have a Buffer!

I've been pretty much isolating anyway so shouldn't make much difference. I just need to buy 3,472 bog rolls and 6,231 Pot Noodles. Sorted.

I just zoomed in to pick faults on your spray job and i cant that's a real good job ? it will be a shame to get it all scuffed up now

Reminds me of a Batavus gogo I had years ago, could start the bloody thing backwards.

I knew this was coming.

Yeh.....people came out of lockdown and went berserk! It was like......"Well I might die of Covid.......so I'm getting a fucking Beemer while I still can! Who cares how much the payments are......I ain't going to be around to pay them anyway!"

Particularly trail/adventure bikes.......there's not much left in Granada, Almeria, or Murcia now for less than €5K. Beemers don't stay in showrooms long......they seem to be outselling all the others by a very wide margin.

I can pretty much guess where they got it from:

I paid €3.5K for the Strom from a dealer in Almeria......15 months and 7k kms later I got €3.5K back in part ex from a dealer in Granada......and it's now back up for sale HERE at €4.4K.

Have they started rioting in Manchester yet? I'll be surprised if they do....my money was always on the Scousers kicking it off first!

I'll keep the BMW brand in focus while you're locked up Alan!

Well I named my dog, uh, erm.... Longer valve adjustment intervals is a win no matter what - but I'd miss the clatter, the "Hey mister - ya got oil in that thing?" comments, etc. Be amazing if they put a shaft on it. The only reason I bought the Tenere over the Africa Twin and Multi was the shaft.

When you wernt looking i moved Magnetic Norths location.

trees is just boats in kit form

Fuck no. Bug out time!

I know you're all wondering, what the heck was she talking about, orange spray paint, what the hell??? ? Well wonder no longer... ??. ? I think this is the most clean Bagheera has been since new, what a handsome guy!

Its fun to lay in wait on the side of the road at bicycle speeds, then WOT it into second and hang on....lol

Bucky's getting old, it took him over a month to come back with that one...?

Did an inventory, seems i;ll have issues sometime in 2022

Autumn colours all over the place today.... ??

Well i call Friday the weekend so i took Tomos for a spin. Her first job was to be a postie bike. Then a mad adventure through town and around the coastline! Wind in my hair if i had any kind of chit! Rode through town and buzzed all the people drinking outside the Brewery pub due to Cornhole rules, eat my smoke, i cried....!...lol Turns out being transported laying on its side allowed tranny oil to short the electricals, the guy tuned the carb, soldered a negative ground, she;s good to go...about 53mph it seems with the jet kit sproket and pipe my oldest brother had bought, well into the 40mphour range easy. they arnt allowed to go over 28 mph when they sell them. 70cc seems like a waste she;s way to fast now. ? Works fine off road! You cant carry a GS ya know!

From what I can understand, I'm sure I just read couples who don’t live together in tier 2 can’t have sex Indoors! But they can have sex outside as long as they are 2mtrs apart!!

Fuckmine! ?