I've been looking to buy a new motorcycle, as I was seriously tired of all the money I was spending on Harley Davidson maintenance. I think I spent $3500 over the course of 125,000 miles. Just... way too much. Anyways, so I head down to the BMW dealership and start checking out their bikes. Another customer was there... and we start talking about Harley costs vs BMW costs and he goes ahead and tells me how much I would be spending on the BMW and how much the electric power-assist motor on the brake system cost and I about fainted. He proceeded to tell me that if I do the factory required maintenance on the BMW at the dealer I will spend about $10,000.00 to go 125,000 miles and that is if you DON'T break.

Holy crap, and here I am... thinking $3,500 for the Harley was expensive!