pag00@amdahl.UUCP (Pria Graves) (07/07/86)
For accessories, San Jose BMW does indeed have them. However, their
support of the accessories that they sold some time in the past is
non-existant to poor. I own a '78 R100S which I bought used with
SJ rear-sets (setbacks?) already installed. Three years ago as my
husband was checking valves prior to my departure on a solo trip to
the east coast, the shift lever broke in his hand. SJ BMW was closed
(on a Saturday p.m., simply a sign in the window saying CLOSED) and
no one else seemed to have a replacement. Fortunately I found a
competant welder who repaired it .... I am still using the repaired
lever!
When I arrived at the Lake Placid rally two weeks later, I went by the
booth to talk to the SJ folks. Their response was basically "well the
shifter is 4 years old and we've changed the design so tough luck".
I am just thankful that it broke in the back yard instead of the middle
of Nevada (on highway 50)! I would hate to be 66 miles from the
nearest town trying to shift with a stub!
They also missed out on selling me a bike when I walked in to their
showroom in 1980 with $6500 burning a hole in my checkbook. No one
came to talk to me although I was the only person in the shop for 10
minutes in December. So I bought the used bike instead.
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Pria ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!pag00
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(Disclaimer: even I don't necessarily agree!)