BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. POLITICIANS often call for resignations of rivals for cheap point-scoring without looking at the monster awaiting in the wings. When restoring a previous bike some time ago, I had a really difficult time sourcing parts with only one, somewhat rude supplier, who mocked you if you didn’t have the intimate knowledge they did of your model. I restored rather than bought new parts and oh, how I wished for more, better sources.
With BMWs we do have many more and better sources – rejoice! In the UK we have a couple of large and several smaller suppliers, all friendly, all efficient and all there to help, with more spread around the world. And there lies a problem, albeit one more preferable to the previous issue – that of temptation, and as a consequence, cost! All those parts, those shiny, new parts, waiting for credit card details for your machine to be shinier than ever before! The bills for the BMW R100(R)S continue toinherent piece of the machine’s history. Without these things, it is ‘just’ another R100. That has cost more than £2000 in parts to restore. So far. With no labour.
