The original owner didn't give it a fair chance, he must have only kept it a couple of months. Apparently he bought a Harley after trading the R65LS back to the BMW dealer.
It sat in the dealership for a few months before I traded my Honda CB1100F in on it. (I couldn't afford to keep tyres on the couple of big jap bikes I owned before I bought the BM.)
As I said earlier I remember it loosening up as it was 'running in', it now has nearly 92,000 km on it and still has never had the heads off....
but it's had 1 timing chain, 3 new batteries, 2 rear main seals, 1 alternator rotor rewind, 1 gear shaft seal, 1 pinion? seal, 10 rear tyres, 6 front tyres, 2 master cylinder kits, 2 sets of brake pads, 1 rear brake shoe reline, 2 sets diaphrams, 1 set needles and seats, 3 air filter elements, 2 clutch cables, a few throttle cables, 1 speedo rebuild, 1 new exhaust system, 1 new sidecover, 1 set new brake rotors, 2 resprays, 2 seat recovers and a few other odds and ends.
