Someone on this site has already said that bad news travels fast, but we never hear of the good things about our Trophies. I am sure the good far outweighs the bad. I just came off of a 2004 BMW 1150RT. If you go to the BMW forums you will see all sorts of nastiness about that bike. Brake failures, spline failures, rear drive failures, etc. It is enough to make you stay far away from BMW's. In reality I put in 10 years and just shy of 100,000 miles and the only issue I had was a bad stick coil. Kind of proves the point I am trying to make.