Sport-Touring.Net - New Trophy

Quote from: Yankee Dog on January 23, 2015, 08:16:47 am

having owned both Beemers and Trumpets, I will bet you a pint of your favorite American ale that the Trumpet will need to be in the shop 70% less than the Beemer. Bigsmile

And the valve check interval on the Trophy is 20K.

I do not want to get into a useless, baseless, factless pissing contest over which bike goes to shop more often, that is a silly debate as it has far too many variables, such as the fact that neither of my BMW's have ever, not once, ever been in the shop; so what does that mean? Never had a FD failure, never had a fuel flange leak, nothing....it means NOTHING.

The OP in his blog stated two items he posted as fact:

1. His decision on the Trophy over the RT was based on the ongoing higher maintenance costs of the RT
2. The RT required service thousands of miles sooner than the Trophy which had a 10k interval. He DID NOT say what that interval was for.

Let's assume it is for oil changes, okay fine. The RT has 6k, the Trophy has 10k. So let's assume riding 30k a year, a lot I know, but it is an easy number divisible by both bikes intervals.

That means, over 30k miles the Trophy will require 3 oil changes to the BMW 5, so the BMW requires two more oil changes or about $100 in oil and filters. Now if we use that same 30k for valve checks you are at 1 for the Trophy to 2 for the BMW, the BMW takes about an hour tops, the Trophy I am sure, positive, it takes double, so it is a wash.

So SERIOUSLY, $100 every 30k miles is considerably higher maintenance costs? I am having the Ducati valve and belt cost debate dejavu.

Maybe I should have thrown out there the fact that the heavier weight of the Trophy will eat tires faster than the RT and thus increase tire maintenance costs? Silly right? In fact, maintenance costs as a justification for any bike purchase is silly, period.

Listen, I am not bashing the Trophy, I like it....A LOT, in fact I came close to buying one; and the OP's opinion on things like value, features, comfort, preferences are all just that, his OPINION and I respect his opinion.

But when someone throws out things as facts, like maintenance costs, or reliability, then you should back it up with facts, otherwise it is BS and just a way to justify your purchase.

Frankly, I never understood why people need to justify anything they buy; why the hell can't someone just say "I picked this bike because I liked it the most"

Here, I purchased a 2014 BMW RT because I liked it better than any other bike on the market, period! Yeah, it cost me more than any other bike and I do not give a crap, I bought what I wanted and do not care if anyone else agrees with my decision or not, they aren't riding it....

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