Why would you expect anything in particular from me? You don't know me. This is, once again an example of your ignorance.
And now, to you Mr. Brown...
My expectation was based on your previous posts in this thread - my expectation was based on prior experience, not ignorance.
If you didn't mean to address me with your flawed thinking comment, you should have left it out of your reply to me.[/QUOTE]
It was in response to your 'limitless knowledge' comment, and on what did you base that comment? The thread. And I was making reference to the thread as well. If you can't grasp that, too bad.
How can you possibly know what the results of future articles are?[/QUOTE]
Are you eating pills you've found on the bus station floor, Brown? Where in the world could you have possibly come up with this glowing gem...
This is what I mean by your speaking from a position of superiority.[/QUOTE]
And you are doing what now? Dressing me down as a superior...
If you didn't reveal the fact that you had cancer for sympathy, why then? There is no reason for you to want me to play nicely in the sandbox unless you feel that you are no longer in control. It seems as if you thought that either I would feel sorry for you and take it easy, or that others would think I was being too hard on you and give more merit to what you say.[/QUOTE]
Perhaps I shouldn't have. I'm not at all in the habit of opening up and sharing - should have known better. It was merely THE explanation as to why I sold my last bike, not because I'm abandoning motorcycling or some such thing. My mistake - won't happen again.
You are bashing the Busa, how else do you explain a heavier, slower, more expensive bike "as the next step in the logical evolution (of) motorcycling".[/QUOTE]
And how is that 'bashing' the Busa?? If this isn't the bike, Brown, one will come along... If things aren't in the process of evolving, they're either stagnating or devolving, yes?
The GoldWing goes farther, is more comfortable and has a more supple suspension than a Busa, does that mean that it would win a head to head comparison? [/QUOTE]
If the comparison involved distance, comfort, suppleness, sure. But in this case the reviewers were told something along the lines of "First one around the TT wins". Odd that; first one around the TT in a motorcycle competition wins - who ever heard of such a thing...
BMW designed this bike as a Busa killer, specifically to dethrone the king of high speed touring. They failed.[/QUOTE]
Did they really... I guess we'll have to wait and see.
The psuedo-authority with which you write betrays your true feelings. Your writing smacks of a pretentious, small minded individual who, rather than listen to those of us who actually go and ride at least one of the bikes in question would prefer to argue the point based on a magazine article which is questionable at best.[/QUOTE]
And you're even-keeled, fair-minded, patient and non-pretentious. Right.
I've ridden two of the three bikes in question. I will ride the K12S. Will my opinion count then?
Once again, an opinion can not be wrong [/QUOTE]
So I'm not wrong after all - cool. What's all this about then??
The scientific data which applies to these bikes clearly states that the BMW is heavier, makes less power, is slower and more expensive. Thus, by your own logic, it is only the winner in a comparison which rewards attributes that are negatives in the realm in which it seeks to dominate.[/QUOTE]
Yet it handles and stops better than its competition... Amazing.
The opinion based side of the argument, in which the BMW seems to hold favor with the testers is exactly that, opinion.[/QUOTE]
"Once again, an opinion can not be wrong"
So they're not wrong?? Seems to me that the more insecure among you have been whining about how the reviewers are wrong...
Believe whatever you like, I could not care less which bike you prefer, but do not attempt to disparage the opinions of others, simply because they don't think like you.[/QUOTE]
You mean, JUST EXACTLY AS YOU'RE DOING TO ME NOW, BROWN??
Hits home, donnit.
Just because you think something doesn't mean that those of us who think differently are wrong, or less intelligent, it just means that we have differing opinions. [/QUOTE]
Take those words of yours to heart, Brown...
Later;
Steve
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...4 consecutive years running???....Hayabusa Engineers never caught a freaking break....and mostly due to ironing out problems that resulted from marketing the most prowerful production motorcycle known to man and it's associated massive and monsterouse torque production till finally in '03 the Mighty Busa was finally..."De-Bugged"....now tell me again how Suzuki rested on their laurels and how the Busa is getting long in the tooth with no upgrades???...then tell me again what new hypre sport touring motorcycle produces more rev for rev torque???....Busa engineers finally caught a break by '03 & '04...a well earned break....as wouldbe Busa owners could finally plunk down their hard earned with confidence...and in return get a 1,300cc High Perf 100FTLB engine shoe horned into a sportbike like frame sans any subframe, fueling, cct or starter issues....but according to some here???...suzi made no headway at all with their Busa eh???...well...I gues going from "the worlds fastest production motorcycle" too "the worlds fastest REFINED production motorcycle" just isn't getting counted...but know this...it's why I waited to harvest mine.
