Nighthawk S

[Grumpy Goat]

I had a 1978 Yamaha and 1980 Suzuki with a drive shaft.
I don't remember hearing much about drive shaft or final drive problems back then.
Without the internet you did not hear about all the problems.

This is true, and also in all fairness, the relatively few failures reported on these fora compared with the majority of non-failures tend to distort the problem, unless it happens to you. If it were not for that appreciation for that fact, I would have moved from shaft driven BMWs by now given the apparent lack of acknowledgement of a problem and also the fact that it is not even mentioned as part of the maintenance schedule. As it is, I will admit to a bit of disappointment with BMW Motorrad over this issue.