Just not a fan of the tech and it's so well on it's way to overdonedom. I'd be more inclined to fall for a late '60s R69, or an early '70s Norton Commando. I owned motorcycles up until they decided phones mixed with cars was a good idea. I've been a welder/fabricator for over 30 years and have watched CNC and such develop and become less impressive, over time.
It's been like going from brilliantly unique engineers, to imagineers that are instead, all plugged into the same software/brain. The new BMW looks like it was spawned from Ducati's DNA, and I have seen a lot of frames with that same sort of essence of that, but in a computerized, one-up-ish kind of way.
I was welding modern car wheels for a few years. Some of the BMW and Mercedes wheels are a unique (made in China!) set that could not get a single unit replacement for. So many different designs that they become too much of a blur for any one set to stand out on it's own. Then I think back to the SS/Corvette Rally wheels, and how many cars Cragar SS mags looked good, or even proper on. Now all the car dorks fancy themselves conceptualizers, and they can't help but put some oversize, one-off, billet, 20 something inch wheel, and some ribbon tire on a mid '60s SS Nova, like they really brought something personal to it all. Everything now just comes out looking like some outsourced, bolt-on whore.
I have been into RC cars for a number of years. I watch on these forums where someone will need a bracket for a suspension or frame part. They're trying to hit someone up for a printer file to make some specific part. Most of the time, I can suggest something cut from a piece of aluminum angle or something common in minutes, dressed precisely with a bastard and mill file, some sandpaper and holes made with a drill. I can't believe how few people now can see the simple alternatives, that are often more elegant than the printed part.
I'm not knocking it for anyone but myself and why I don't care for such things. I'm just glad I can opt out and I do when possible.
