Video of Driveshaft failure on R1200 ... this one on an RS

[Grumpy Goat]

Master tech gets thrown around loosely. 

A while ago I looked into becoming a BMW Motorrad mechanic. Enroll for about three months at a BMW-licensed school like UTI, pass some tests and you're a BMW technician. Follow that by being employed at a BMW dealership as a technician for at least five years and congratulations, you're now a Master Technician. There's no re-testing required later, either.

Sounds reasonable. It's not rocket science, especially these days when they are basically parts replacers with a service manual to back them up, for work that the company is then expected to stand behind. Something goes wrong with the bike and you bring it in to a dealership, the company's policy would be to repair or replace in such a way that is warrantable and the vehicle continues to operate in a satisfactory manner. In order to do this, they need someone acceptably well trained to follow instructions in a service manual and get the job completed in a timeframe that makes a profit. Would be nice if there was some re-testing or monitoring of competence afterwards as well, but I suppose that costs money.

If one wants the job done to perfection, with each and every step pored over and examined in infinite detail while musing on the ways that the design could be improved this way or that, then that is not the job for the BMW technician. It's the job for the experts on the Internet. 

My 2 cents.