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Originally Posted by
Jacques le Roux
As a last remark, in 13 days I saw 5 other XTs, must have seen more than a 100 Beemers.
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One very good reason not to own a BMW!
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Originally Posted by
Dual
But, the BMW is nice, nice smooth grunt to it
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Interesting observation. I rode an 800 back in 2010 for RIDE magazine and did about 500-600 miles as part of group test. I also found the BMW smooth... initially. After a while though I noticed (as did two of the other three riders) that it suffers from buzzy high frequency secondary vibrations (typical of parallel twins) through the bars which affected me more than the "bigger" more obvious low frequency primary vibration on the Z. I suffer a bit from carpel tunnel syndrome and the twin aggravated it far worse. Just illustrates how we are all different I guess. Incidentally, as you'd perhaps expect, the Triumph 800 triple was the smoothest on test. Very little primary or secondary vibration.