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BMW, as with their cars, in many ways sets the benchmark in the targeted demographic & use they build for.
They set the 'benchmark' for unreliability, IMO..My wife's '08 535 is being bought back under the California Lemon Law, this Wednesday.. 5 or 6 fuel pumps, a full set of injectors, the turbo...the fuel pump problem is wide-spread and is to this day, unsolved. BMW makes expensive pieces of crap, IMO.
As far as the XR comparing to other bikes..a Monster would slap it silly, but I was actually surprised at how well my XR performed in stock form. I've since put the Showa "Kit" suspension on it, along with Braking wheel and rotors-which alone save more than 40lbs, and a PC and Termi exhaust. When I bought mine, I bought it because of what it is..not because I was looking for a naked bike and felt it to be the 'best' out of all of them.
HD built the XR using their long-time method of building their bikes without any thought of saving weight, or making it easy for someone to work on it. It'd have been nice if they made it more like a 'true' XR, and less HD fat-heavy-pig, but with only some bolt-on parts, I'm gonna have mine under 500-pounds. As I wrote however..it was fun even when it was stock. Reliability-wise...it seems to be doing about as well as a regular Sportster.
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