Here‘s Alec (not on his blog) discussing a problem with his BMW bike. The thread begins:
I just got ferried home by BMW recovery’s agent in Warwick; long story short I was riding from Preston (Lancs) to Farnborough, making fuel and rest stops as I felt necessary.
I pulled into Sandbach, stopped, fitted-up for rain gear, had a bite to eat and pulled off bound for the motorway. I got about 200 meters down the M6 when I suddenly lost power, freewheeling somewhat. I pulled in the clutch and tried a rolling restart, but the bike wasn’t having it, the rear briefly locked (so grab the clutch in and roll!) and thus I pulled to stop on the shoulder.
I tried rebooting the bike…
The subsequent discussion points the finger at “a dodgy firmware update”. It’s the kind of analysis we’re used to seeing in the wonderful world of PCs, cellphones, and similar gadgets, but I had fondly (naively) hoped that other engineering disciplines had more, well, discipline. A better attitude to quality. How disappointing.
Can the BMW 1200GS display a BSOD?