Truth. When I attended a local new BMW dealer grand opening (out of curiosity) I was amazed at the complaining the BMW owners in attendance were doing. Both very critical of the new bikes offered for test rides, and their own bikes. I was amazed, these were BMW loyal fans? I heard horror tales of repair costs that were higher than some new motorcycles I've bought. I'd put up with something like that exactly once. Still they all seemed resigned in the end to eat whatever BMS feeds them, regardless how bitter the taste. At one point I was conversing with a couple of attendees and after hearing them complain about their reliability issues, I mentioned there are other options out there and used my trouble free high mileage ST1300, that I had at the time, as an example. They stopped complaining for a second, looked at me like I was from Mars and then picked up right where they left off. It's like they are afflicted with some strange form of Stockholm Syndrome...