Some perspective upon 'engine failure'

[LiterBoy]

Originally Posted by insignis

Jim Morrison 'was' (not 'is') the lead singer of the band The Doors. He died in 1971 and was buried in Paris.

Anyone interested in some Doors tickets at a good price?

[squarecircle]

Originally Posted by insignis

Welcome to the forum, sq. I see you have uncovered one of the more salient points from my original post from several weeks ago.

Jim Morrison 'was' (not 'is') the lead singer of the band The Doors. He died in 1971 and was buried in Paris. In spite of the subsequent decomposition he has, over the past 39 years, been 'sighted' on numerous occasions- and appearing to be just fine each time. Most recently this occurred at the Ghana-Serbia group D soccer match played only yesterday in South Africa where he was seen cheering the young Ghana team onto an impressive one-nil victory.

BTW there is no relationship between Jim Morrison (dead or alive) and S1 engine failure (real or hypothetical).

Originally Posted by LiterBoy

Anyone interested in some Doors tickets at a good price?

Greetings >>>>> That is nice, I guess, but I must confess that I have never heard of a band called 'The Doors' >>>>> Regards, sq.

[Phil96]

Bet there are many who are enjoying the 14,000 revs without warming up.

[david tittermary]

Originally Posted by Thors Hammer

I was seriously considering the purchase (and may buy one yet as my 401K = ATM to me) until the rev limiter issue came about. Like you, I wouldnt have even questioned it if it came that way from day 1, but the "knee jerk" reaction caused me to be patient for once in my life. People trying to blow off the fact the limiter came after bikes shipped as being a non issue crack me up.

Not sure why your having the problem getting a demo, the dealer offers it everytime I walk in. Your situation with the demo ride don't sound right to me. I will have to defend BMW on that one. They practicaly beg to let me ride it.

I'm not understanding this rpm limit thing being a problem, a few bikes were dynoed/raced from jump street and popped engines. BMW figures the cause is lack of break in so they put a 600 mile limiter on the bike to avoid the issue and bad press. Big deal. How many post brake in limiter bikes have blown engines??? that is the big question I would think?

As far as engineers not planing ahead and figuring out every possible situation come on this happens all the time to all companies hell look at apple and the latest iphone antennia crap.

Anyway with a 3 year warranty I figured its all good, now I am pissed about the lack of a tip over sensor but it seems bmw has seen the error in this over site and are doing recalls to correct, sorta gives me faith.

[Acko]

Hi All,
Reading forums can be scary, now for something totally different: I have covered 2500 miles on my S1000rr and it ain't gone wrong. Just changed the Met K3's and the spindle nut came off and went back on again, no sweat.
The bike has been just perfect.....now so was my Hayabusa and my Honda SP2 (RC51), in fact ive never had a problem with any of them. Guess i treat em right, ride like a ***** and am just plain lucky, mind you iv'e had two wives, rode them hard and treated em shabby and got loads of hassle !!!! lesson there!! Be safe all.

[Rahul_Prasad]

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[Sal_R1]

You have posted the identical message in 2 different parts of the forum at the same time!

Gathering information pertaining to camshaft, engine and transmissions issues.

[Torasin]

Originally Posted by 66droptop

Just like Bigfoot and unicorns. We've all heard of them, but who has actually seen one?

Don't wanna sound like a troll or look like I'm having a dig but I'm riding a unicorn and my mate just got rid of his bigfoot. I only know 1 other person with an s1k and his cams stripped themselves and destroyed the engine and my clutch exploded.

Luckily our dealer is good and BMW has come to the party. They gave him a good deal trading in on an R1200S and are about to rebuild my entire engine. Phenomenal bike but it has me concerned about reliability as it's my primary transport so I can't afford to have it off the road for 6 weeks at a time like it has been currently.