Holy. Mother. Of. God.

So I Picked up the motorbike from it's week-long repair yesterday. Needless to say, the engine pulls like a freight train now. It's quiet. It runs cool. It has torque and power. I guess that's what you get for cleaning all the sand out of the engine!
The repair bill was staggering, but the result is more than worth the money. It's like having a brand new motorbike. For $1100, this is what they did:
- flushed the brake system, replaced rear pads, replaced front bleed valve
- flushed the clutch system
- flushed the gearbox
- flushed the final drive
- took off the cylinder heads, cleaned the heads and cylinders
- honed the pistons
- new piston rings, head gaskets
- re-assembled the heads, re-set valve timing, re-set rocker arm vertical play
- filed a nubbin off the cam chain tensioner that was making it slap
- disassembled the air intakes and throttle bodies and cleaned them
- dismantled the rear of the bike to get the airbox out, cleaned all the sand and grit out of that and put it back together

And why? Because BMW didn't do the job properly when they took in the bike. In fact they didn't do the job at all. They sold me a bike with sand INSIDE the engine!

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