On 6/10/2013 7:37 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"Earl" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message ...



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.


I have a buddy who has a more recent M5. I haven't heard him complaining
about it.