"Earl" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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With someone more skilled than I am driving it, my motorcycle will
blow
the doors off that Ford truck in 0-60 and in the quarter mile and
again,
with the right driver, leave that 911 Turbo you had behind, too. If
I
recall the test data, the Duc will do 0=60 in 3.1 or 3.2 seconds,
and
the quarter mile in 11.1 seconds. A couple of the Ducs will beat 3
seconds in 0-60 and do the quarter mile in under 10 seconds.

But...not me with driving.

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Or me. I like bikes too ... or did. But at some point you have
to face the music and realize that reflexes aren't what they used to
be and motorcycles can be .... well ... flat out dangerous, even for
experienced riders. That, plus the fact that I got spoiled having
the Harley in Florida. I know I'll get all kinds of incoming flack
for this but cruising around in the early evening on some of the
inland roads near Jupiter in a tee shirt and no helmet was the
balls.
Never went fast. Just nice, cruising on isolated back roads away
from all the noise and traffic. Compared to riding up here in MA
where you still have to have leathers on in the evenings, even in
the summer, helmet, gloves, chaps, .... the heck with it. Just
wasn't the same. Last Harley was a 2007 Ultra Classic. Beast
weighed almost 900 lbs. Then, I traded a 1965 Volkswagon Bus that
I picked up for a completely restored 1974 Norton 850 Commando.
Pretty stupid move. The Norton was a young man's bike, not
something for an old fart like me. Reliving my youth, or tried to.
Rode it twice and sold it.



Harry's imaginary Ducati is far more unreliable than either of your
M5's. I know several people who have owned one, and only one, and now
have another brand.

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That's hard to believe. The two M5's I had were nightmares. They
were 2006 models and I think BMW was still getting all the bugs out of
the software that controlled virtually every aspect of the car. The
first one was constantly locking up the transmission so you couldn't
shift it. Software revisions and upgrades didn't fix it. They
finally gave me a newer one, manufactured later in the year that
supposedly had all the "bugs" worked out. Nope. Started doing the
same thing. Red cog of death appeared on the dash display. I had
enough. They are awesome cars and maybe all the bugs are worked out
by now, but it turned me off to BMW performance vehicles.