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The first time that I changed the oil in my /7, I began to realize that the much vaunted engineering on these machines was simply a legend...having taken mine apart, and now putting it back together, I'm CERTAIN that the engineers were on drugs when they designed 'em...I just shake my head when I consider that ya gotta worm that cover just one certain way to get it past the frame and exhaust, WHEN ITS HOT, no less, and then getting it back in! And ya gotta design a HINGED filter cuz ya fouled up designing it in the first place? And everything depends on a stoopid o-ring? Naw, folks, that's just assinine... Why not design it with a spin-on oil filter and be done with it, as long as you're designing things?
Then we get to the clam shell air filter...and on and on...and WOE to the poor b***t***d with an oil filter and an RS/RT fairing!!!
Nope...for good engineering, I look to my Harley...for riding a smooth machine that handles well and that my GF is comfy on, I look to my Beemer...
If only there were a smilie icon for laughing until I cried! (Sometimes you have to laugh, or you will cry)
I haven't dealt with a Harley since my wife sold her shovelhead paint shaker, but I always wondered about German engineering (particularly after being stationed there three years and working on some of it). I keep wanting to know, did Luftwaffe and Wermacht mechanics have to deal with 2,000 O-rings?