Here's a thought re the RT clutch issue.To replace a clutch on a 1200RT you have to pull the bike in half. I have photos of such a dismantle, and you'd cry if I could find them and post them. It costs circa $1300-$1500 to replace an RT clutch, due to having to almost fully dismantle the bike to get to it. It's a dry clutch and doesn't like a slow speed hammering.On the other hand, the Yamaha FZR1300 has a wet clutch which can be changed by leaning the bike over, removing a cover and some bolts, replacing the clutch, replacing the cover and standing the bike back up. Easy. What it means is that the maintenance cost for a Beemer is huge if you are unlucky enough to need the big ticket maintenance items.On the up side though, my 1150GS has recently been pulled in half for another reason, and the clutch was hardly worn-in after 60K.I refer back to my original point, the BMWs are sensational at what they are designed for, but if you don't do the maintenance and mistreat them, they don't like it at all.Still, what bike does? It's just that flogging a Honda or Yamaha and fixing it costs less than flogging an RT and fixing it. If you'r not going to flog it, the Beemer is a gem.As always, you could just throw another lager down, forget the practicalities of it and buy the Beemer you have always wanted. If we only ever bought bikes for purely practical reasons, how dull would that be. And how many Harleys would ever get sold?So there.
