Tuesday, 18 February 2014

RE: [emrat:4030] Consumer Reports

I do like the Commander. Pretty good review on the bikes.
 

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:17:41 -0700
Subject: RE: [emrat:4029] Consumer Reports
From: hinds169@gmail.com
To: emrat@googlegroups.com

I posted a pic up of the LT a couple weeks ago and got some mixed reviews..... I love it!

On Feb 18, 2014 4:14 PM, "JEFF WALTERS" <jeffswalters@msn.com> wrote:
Check out this on the new 2014 Thunderbird LT and Commander!
 
http://www.motorcycle.com/manufacturer/2014-triumph-thunderbird-commander-thunderbird-lt-first-ride.html
 

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:29:04 -0800
From: mjbaca900@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [emrat:4027] Consumer Reports
To: emrat@googlegroups.com

Near mythic?  I have not seen such documentation :)



From: ikonoklass <ikonoklass@yahoo.com>
To: "emrat@googlegroups.com" <emrat@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:36 AM
Subject: RE: [emrat:4024] Consumer Reports

Well said. On a more ironic note, it's interesting that Manny admires the new KTMs, given that their reputation to date has been one of near-mythic unreliability. I've yet to hear a reviewer comment on oil changes on the new 1190 Adventure. Hopefully it's no longer a 5-hour ordeal. We'll have to wait until MCN gives us the straight dope.


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From: Dan Pilcher
Date:02/18/2014 8:41 AM (GMT-07:00)
To: emrat@googlegroups.com
Subject: [emrat:4023] Consumer Reports

I agree with the comments about taking CR reviews with a grain of salt.  CR relies on its members to voluntarily fill out the surveys.  I’m a subscriber, but I don’t take the time to fill out the surveys.  In a way, the CR survey is similar to the instant polls that you see on the Web sites of newspapers and television stations.
 
If you want to be methodologically rigorous, you would need a scientific random survey with an adequate sample size to reduce the margin of error to an acceptable level of (a) all owners and (b) all dealers/service shops, whether franchised or independent.  And somehow you would need to adjust the results for the fact that an owner and a dealer/service shop may have differing views of a problem with a bike.  You also would have to break the issues down into the specifics: mileage, year, model, engine, transmission, electrical, etc.  Only then would you would be approaching a truer picture of reliability.  But no one wants to pay the money to undertake such a research project.
 
Dan
 
From: emrat@googlegroups.com [mailto:emrat@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Manuel Baca
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 7:01 PM
To: emrat
Subject: [emrat:3999] BMW guys, I'm sorry
 
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