BMW shirks responsibility - stonewalls pleas for help over serious safety issue

Show me! I think everyone wants what you know.

I've always got the alternative of a Web high-lift/short-duration cam on my 1997 BMW F650ST (with accompanying engine work to maintain reliability), and then backcut my gears at the same time. It's a lot, but would be a one-time ordeal based on a proven (same exact!) carbed engine from 1992 to 2008 (euro-usa BMW F650/Bombardier DS650.)

Like my Kaw Versys 650, midrange cams rock, but the Kaw's is an oem product too. The TR650 does it w/o a cam to my knowledge, but it does it and it WAS oem. Converting my bmw f650 is a plan I had on hold for about 10 years, and was halted when the TR650 came out in immediate controversy.

The BMW was ostracized since it pulled attention away from BMW's $25K dinosaurs. But Damn!, the TR650 is not supported by BMW, KTM, Husky, or anyone. Not even members/vendors who own or know how to fix them do not document how to fix them. It's just a huge gamble for me, since I have a credible pathway to what I want now; and the TR650 is so incredibly complicated, Husky racers, the industry's best, do not know all that is going on with it. That's a huge investment, vast learning curve beyond normal engineers aptitude, and diminished probability of success.

I cannot afford to be the first to figure it out and document it as well, especially based on a Chinese assembled engine :-o But who would not love to have a Husky? No one that I know.

I had this issue once on a long trip up to Connecticut the first few months of ownership. Scared the hell out of me. Luckily it passed and I made it home. Had the bike re-mossed at the local dealer and never had the issue again. I also put a spoofer on for good measure.

I love this bike, but do worry that when I finally do have a problem (and someday I'm sure I will) that it will turn this thing in to a pile of parts. The crux of the biscuit is that all the farkles and Terra-fying my Strada I have too much in it to sell--It's worth way more to me than it is to anyone else. It's darn near perfect for the kind of riding I do so I will ride it until some obscure part is just not available for purchase. About 8k very satisfying miles thus far.

So you are making a fuss out of something you really don't know about in hopes to devalue our bikes?

That is bad form in my opinion.

No, that's not exactly it. I am making a fuss because a grave injustice has happened to a dream bike and and a great motorcycle company: period. I did not and I cannot devalue your motorcycle: you knew exactly what you were getting.

My expectations have been lowered like everyone else; but I am still trying to see hope in getting one. If I lied to myself or others because I thought they had thin skin and could not handle the truth, "that would be in bad form:" period. I was hounded ruthlessly by Husky owners to buy one unconditionally at one time by people who sold theirs and are not here now (not on This site though.) Is that good form, or is an open mind to the truth better form? I choose the later.

You have a legend killer, be happy. If you had a Strada and lived in CA, I already telegraphed that I would relieve you of your worries for $3xxx. What more do you want? However, that is not a static offer and will vary, although it is trending down due to market forces, beyond my control. If it does change however, it will probably be from the spirit behind Husky racers more than anything else.

Maybe SWM / Shineray will find the answers left stranded in Varese.