There is nothing wrong with low budget priced farkles as long as they are a proven thing with respect of doing the whole job for you. The thing that really burns me up is to see someone waste their money on alternate and still not achieve the real deal! Example, Russell seating compared to beads, air hawk corbin, sargent, ETC,ETC.If you spend your hard earned dollars wisely and get the best to begin with you are usurally not into much more in the long run. Same thing applies to mosty all clothing items. Over the years I have tried a lot of gear, most of which didn't fit, too small to get proper arm length or big enough to be comfortable and the arms too long, same on pant waist , & leg length. IF your body parts are of the right size to buy a good fit off the rack you can get by on the cheap even though it usurally will not hold up over the years of use that the good stuff will. Aerostich is one example, many sets of it get used almost daily and last beyond 10 years still doing the job in a excellent manner. In Langlitz if you can keep your body in the same size factors as when you had it built you can still be wearing it for 30 to 50 years and it will still look good and be doing it's job for you. LOL I am on my third set of langlitz due to changing waist and chest sizing, but the previous two sets are running around somewhere binging pleasure to their owners.
Bike wise as far as BMW is concerned, their suspension nd handling is superb. Being me I automaticly thing boxer engine whether R, RT or GS or GSA, most of which are almost to tall for me. For a short legged person the K1600 GT,or GTL is fantastic. A good friend has a GTL with over 40 ,000 miles and no problems with it. But there are a lot of good bikes out ther. some of the best buys for your dollar are the used NT's right now. My biggest concern with NT is the saddle bag lids or doors which ever you want to call them. When mine go totally bad I will do some real creative engineering on them, Two years in North Afrika to learn that engineering!
when new bike time caomes to me again it will probably be a HD with a reverse gear added as a $2500.00 Farkle.
Eldon
