A mate of mine has bought a sertao for another trip in to Central / southern Africa ( he took a tenere the last time) He loves the little BMW - but has had problems with starting, (eletrical gremlins), Decompression valve wrongly shimmed from new in factory, decompression valve spring faulty, and a few other minor niggles including the service from BMW. These bikes are built in China not Germany - I assume the quality control should be good but such errors on a new built and delivered bike maybe put a question to that. The bike has spent quite a bit of time off the road ( by that I mean not working correctly) - that is not good for an new £7000 bike designed for travel. I am not sure but wonder if it also has the can bus electrics rather than a traditional wiring harness - can bus is something personally i would want to avoid.
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