+Malte Christensen A great motorcycle....congrats!!

How's it going after a year? Yes, it is a fantastic bike.

I put 10,000 km on it the five months I spent with it in summer. Now in winter I am in the tropics, riding my toy Honda 125 cc. Can't wait for April to get back on the RT.

@@NMalteC and here we still are, 5 years into the future. I’m now trying to buy a used version of this 2014+ for 8-10k

@@drewmorg. in 2020 I traded my 2014 RT for a new 1250GS

I have been looking at a 2010 model for 6 grand, but there's a 2014 model for 9 grand, which doesn't look as good IMO (I like the old gas tank with strap holes) and the 2010 model has the comfort seat, satnav IV and luggage. But after watching this I may now get the 2014 model, especially because of the new dashboard.

goinxnginx Fantastic! We'll have a cup of coffee and chit chat.

Plus a couple of wheelies:)

You'll never regret buying an RT.

I'm just not impressed with your arrogance. If you were a man of class, you would behave with manners, not insult car salesman, and allow people to make the videos they want to without being subject to your profiles and judgements.

That third grade education provided you with excellent tools. There are better ways to express yourself, Silence, among them.

I had a Connie 14 for a year. Bought it brand new. I sold it because of its ultra lack-of-agility in the corners. Also the tires lasted about 1200 miles, the handlebars were way too low, and the seat was terrible. I ended up getting heli-bars and the comfort seat, and a lip on the screen because of the buffeting in the high position and everything got better. I was riding back from a trip one time, and I realized it was super dumb it didn’t have cruise control when everything else does. I think I went on one more ride after that, tried to pass a car on the highway in 6th, and it had absolutely no power. The power on that bike is completely the opposite of the RT. It takes crazy high revs to get to the powerband. That bike is the polar opposite of the RT. The RT has crazy power where you need it, and turns in like a supersport. It feels like it’s 300 pounds. The Connie feels like it’s 900 pounds.

@@adammfharris You’re not a very good troll twit. lol

tjzulu1 Yeah - bikes should be colorful. "Wet asphalt grey"? What the heck kind of color is that lol. It practically disappears in the video.

shingnosis Yeah…and as you say it "disappears" in the video but disappears in traffic as well and that can be very dangerous for cars, but especially for the rider!!

I think it's always better to ride.

Looking at getting some sort of finance for a mk1, and once I have that start saving for the MK3

Good question...I don't know. I'll have to figure that out today:)

thats common led flickering when u look it true camera.

LED refresh at a different rate than the camera captures frames. It’s not a mode, just a side effect of LED lights on camera.

+Graham Shea I suspect it is the result of the wet clutch.

Graham Shea so you don't kneel into traffic on the side of a two lane mountain road when fixing a flat tire.

@@Xlac and you do in left-hand-traffic markets. :(

@@Visionery1 good point

+Robert Metzger Gee thanks! Maybe now my vids will become shorter and better;)

It’s not at all. The Concours 14 is underpowered. Yes, it has 160hp, but you don’t get anything until 6k rpm. This bike gets everything at 1k and pulls linear to the redline…. It has 125hp, but would smoke the Connie through the Cherohola

Shato Nyruami Shut the fuck up.

Cal Moto classy response...

Shato Nyruami Just taking out the trash.

Plus all the switch gear is of a poor quality, I have just "dumped" because of unreliability an immaculate K 1300 GT EE with 11000miles on the clock after I had two faulty left hand switch gear replacements (£300 GBP, second one only lasted 270 ish miles) ALL the front end suspension bushes and an advisory on a back wheel bearing at its MOT, also my friend who owns a K 1600GT has had the same on his suspension at 6000 miles and the same switch but with a bonus as BMW told him they had to be replaced as a pair at £600 GBP due to being CANBUS !! so think carefully before shelling out ££££££££or $$$$$$$$$ ona purchase of this kind, Ps BMW have a recall on all the RT machines now in Europe I believe.

Great to be able to come back (8 years later! 😅) and comment in retrospect! To be fair, it turned out the suspension issue wasn't BMW's fault, but that of an external parts supplier, and only affected the Dynamic ESA optioned models. BMW subsequently offered a very generous compensation package for the inconvenience to buyers. Many 2014 RTs have now racked up well over 100,000kms, so no, not "actually poorly made and terribly unreliable" at all. Seems you were too quick to pull the trigger on the Bavarian hate...🙄

@@peterarmstrong9116 First of all, if you fit defective parts from an outside supplier, you absolutely are at fault because your QC department failed in their one task. Saying that an outside supplier was responsible for the ESA issues is just a cop out that does not in any way remove the blame from BMW. Anyhow, that was just an example that was current back then. Here are a couple more: The rear sprockets on early belt drives. The switchgear on early K1600s that would cook and stop working when the bike was parked in the sun. Going back further, there were output shaft bearing failures on R100GS. This happened to me and it was an expensive repair. The chrome also started coming off one of the headers almost immediately. The speedometer packed up at 15k km. A friend of mine put over 300k km on his identical GS, but freely admits that it was required several costly and time-consuming repairs along the way. That's the thing with Beemer owners, they will tell you how great their bikes are, but conveniently forget the time the alternator packed up, or the time the fuel pump failed, or the time they could no longer use their high beam. There is a reason for Consumer Reports to have ranked BMW 2nd last in reliability amongst motorcycle manufacturers. As it happens, I also read French bike magazines, one of which ran an investigation on BMW's multiple warranty issues. I've never seen any English-language publication do anything similar.

​@@CaptHollisterhow can BMW QC a part they neither designed nor manufactured? Yes, they're responsible for replacing the defective component, however the cost of them doing so is recovered by them from the component manufacturer. By their nature all machines are bound to have faults, even the likes of Rolls Royce have had recalls. In fact I'd go as far as to say I've never owned a vehicle that's not been subject to a recall of some description. I take consumer reports with a grain of salt; they're simply a survey, not a study. They're incredibly subjective; one person's perception of what constitues a fault can be very different to another's, especially when you take into consideration x factors such as the target buying demographic and brand loyalty.

I never do for gluves,

If the expression is offensive to you, or anyone, it is not meant to be. It was used as a colloquialism from my youth that meant nothing more than "knucklehead". At any rate, KZfaq is supposed to be fun, and I apologize for coming back at you so hard.

And I apologize too, for real. Your reviews are very well fine and helpful. I am debating between my third RT and/or an S1000r, so I need help!

Very well done, I meant of course.

Thanks very much.

Well Sport, you could go elsewhere and bother someone else. May I suggest Brotocross, or The Crumble. I'm sure your hackles will be up no matter where you land. Now piss off.

Moronic at its extremities

If you read the string of comments between me and the reviewer we both apologized. You can find that exchange at the , uh, extremities of the comments.