I also have serviced, ridden, owned (and tried to deny ownership of) many many bikes, but I rack my tiny little peanut to find one I despised, or even despised seeing or hearing.
Now - wrenching on - thats an entirely different discussion right there with merits and demerits of its own!!! Not here, not now - somewhere else, some other time maybe (hint hint!!!)
A bmw is something I have never yet owned - the reason, and more so in the advancement of technology and safety conciousness, and much as I appreciate the importance of this to many people, including myself, albeit slightly skewered - they just seem to engineer so much between the reality of the rider and the synthetic feeling created between him/her/us and the bike itself. Seatbelts and airbags - Achtung Spitfire, Euro 3 and TUV will get you!!!:soapbox