Sorry about the late reply -- just got back from a 2-week Baltic cruise. You can lower the Wee pretty easily with longer dogbones and pushing the fork tubes up a little. I did this initially because it seemed tall to me as well, but later went back to the OEM setup when I got more comfortable with it. You were wise not to get the BMW, not so much because of the cost of repairs (it's pretty easy to work on) as the fact that so many things are known to go wrong. I was never completely confident that the thing would get me home. AFAIK from my experience and also reading the forum the Wee is essentially bulletproof. If there is a glaring flaw nobody seems to have found it yet.