04-10-2015, 01:07 AM
I think the internet has been a huge boon to motorcyclists of all brands. Before, your main contact was your dealer (and we all know how savy they are) saying "well, we've never heard of this before, first one we have seen", and as far as you knew that was true (and it may have been). Now we get to see trends sometimes before the manufacturer even knows it's a trend. We as consumers communicating with other consumers of the same product, can find out issues before the dealer or manufacturer does and report them to each other and can inform the dealer who can inform the manufacturer. Any perceived weaknesses are well know these days very early in the production run... which is exactly what scared me away form buying the R1200R.