NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/rec/motorcyc/45354

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From: [e-mail] (Bob Pasker)
Subject: Re: New Guppie in pond wants BMW info.
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[e-mail] (Keith D Gregory) writes:

>You might wish to reconsider the BMW choice. They're wonderful bikes, and will
>last forever if properly cared-for, but parts are expensive and can be hard to
>find. This can be summed up in an experience my friend and I had last summer,
>in the hills of West Virginia: At a rest stop, we were talking to some locals;
>one looked at my friend's Honda, and commented on how he had had several, and
>how much he liked them. Another looked at my boxer, and said "I didn't think
>BMW made motorcycles." The next day, we arrived at our destination - him with
>a nail in his tire, me with a broken turn-signal switch. He was able to get
>the tire patched that afternoon, I had to wait three days for a new switch to
>be shipped to me.

seems to me that if you had had a nail in your tire, you would have
had no problem having it patched, but there's no guarantee that they
would have had a turn signal switch for *any* motorcycle.  you seem to
suggest that honda parts would have been easier to find in WV, but the
evidence you give is for patching a honda tire, which is no more
difficult than patching a bmw tire.

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