you probably can afford the maintenance costs :coffeedrink:
Actually, you can do a lot of the basic maintenance stuff yourself. I'd go back to the dealer for work until the warranty expired, then start wrenching on my own. You can go to the BMWMOA website and find all kinds of help there.
i ride a 2009 GSA i bought from a dealer with a factory warentee and an additional aftermarket one for 8 years full coverage, that protects me for issues like final drive, a known problem with SOME of these, i can do the simple maintenance like valve adjusts & oil changes but will use the dealer or in my case a reputable local BMW mechanic that can stamp my book and verify his work in case of an trouble. when i service the bike at 6000 mi intervals i usually need tires and between the two it's been around a grand each time..by the way i bought this bike as a treat to myself after years of riding bikes i can actually afford...like a KLR...i rode that one up to the arctic circle and it never failed me...but the big beemer is a machine like nothing else. on a 2 week through Utah last spring i was able to ride slickrock and had some get offs..and in the wide open Nevada desert 90+ was smooth as buddah...at your size it will feel great..your nearest dealer will let you testdrive one...so i say DO IT! :victory:
How about we all stick to the OP's question...not throw in opinions.
The maintenance it higher than most bikes, but your intervals are further apart. For example the big Yamaha motor suggests oil change every 3000 where on the beemers is every 6000, it doesn't quite average out but its close.
I've had two 1200's, and 1100 and now have an 1150 GSA. You need to break it down by service intervals. Every 6000 is the recommended, but like mentioned before you can do the "minor" service yourself. The "Major" is a little more tricky because you need to re-sync the throttle bodies. But all in all changing the major fluids take about an hour, that's oil, tanny oil and final drive oil.
And to be honest even at the major services if the plugs look good I wont change them just because the book says to. The only thing I would be super anal about it the final drive, if I remember its only 500mL, which is SUPER cheap insurance if you do it every oil change.