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Only two BMWs failed their riders in this event. One was an electronic meltdown on a brand new K1600, the other was an FD related failure on a high-mileage K1200. I had hoped that BMW had put their reliability issues behind them with the new bikes, but apparently not. Technically, BMW are more...

.... and 17 Yamahas finished, not 16 I guess I'm less concerned with who finished on what, than I am in which brands failed, and why. That takes the rider out of the equation and lets folk choose based upon reliability.

We used to live close to a gasoline storage facility when I was a kid. On any day you could see the tankers from all the major "brands" filling up from the same storage tanks. They may have put different additives in after the tankers were filled, but the basic gasoline was identical.

The Motion Pro tool works just fine. Please don't obsess over getting them all "identical", it is not necessary. Just make sure they are all close, and that there isn't one that is substantially different to the others. Having said all that, the Morgan Carbtune is a much better tool, and right...

This ^^^^ All of it but particularly #4 The dividing line between achieving your ambitions, and feeling like a failure depends entirely on the way you approach and view life. On the final day of the 2015 Iron Butt Rally, that little boy was the winner ... he got his Daddy back!

... be back Friday :D

It's not clear at this point what went wrong with that phone call. Placing the call is not what gets the points, for those you have to leave the required information. Many of us have experienced difficulties with "Call-In" bonuses. Sometimes those problems are user-error, sometimes a network...

Yes. So much so that I worried about the integrity of the mounting, and I removed it. On my Venture Royale the X-Creen was a very useful addition, but it didn't work on the FJR.

IBR 2015 Winner ... Eric Jewell Josh Mountain 2nd

LMFAO :D It's all good. I'm generally a lot more relaxed than my posts sometimes appear ... and I am very difficult to offend. Some have managed it, but they hard to try really hard!

At $75 an hour, or more, $2000 comes around pretty fast.

And it kept them all satisfied :D

Copied to ADVRider ^^^

There are probably more deer in that area than anywhere else in the country. Rider needs good lights and some good fortune. The road is good and he has the time

It's too late Jerry. Even if I could get to him in 30 mins (maybe), and fix his bike in another 30, it would put him well outside a DNF :(

Chris is out. Bike is showing a list of error codes as long as your arm among which is no compression, front or rear cylinder. If I had a couple of hours I could get a bike to him, but by then he would be DNF on time in Alb. He'll get a tow to Claremore and call if I can do any more. Sad ...

I am about 20 miles from him but I don't know what I can do. I can go to him with tools, but not sure I can be much help ... He has a Harley, I think

So Spot must have been lagging. The rider who went south from Wichita has suddenly jumped to OKC, and is in very good shape. It WAS much faster than US 54

There is also a guy asleep in a motel in Elk City. This rider has been running in the top 10 through the first two legs. He has clearly done his sums and knows he can afford a few hours sleep, and he must have needed it badly. What is interesting is that an hour or so before he stopped he rode...

Mostly the the outliers are coming in on pretty fast roads, especially through Oklahoma and south through Kansas. They have long stretches of Interstate with 75 mph posted limits. Few of them have to exceed that to make the barn in a timely manner, they just have to keep those wheels turning, at...