Too much technology for two wheels. I have adaptive cruise in my Tundra ,and use it, but you still have to be aware of traffic or you can get into serious trouble. With drivers texting, calling, and watching apple tv in their cars, the adaptive is not responsive enough or tracks the same every time. If your cruising at 80 mph and some yahoo who is traveling 20 mph slower than you pulls out it can be quite the jolt. And the poor person behind you is right up your butt, and then your canceling and trying to re-establish speed, not my cup of tea on two wheels. Also the adaptive may decide to stop working, if it thinks the conditions are wrong even when it's not. You have to learn the horse to ride it safely ,same with a motorcycle.
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blacque jacque shellacque
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This Hi tech wizardry isn't cheap. In order to keep the overall cost of the bike down, and profit margins up, corners must be cut. Maybe that's why we have bikes with soft cam followers and defective calipers. Cost cutting on the old simple tech which doesn't sell new bikes. Surface sensitive traction control and adaptive cruise control look great in a sales brochure. Quality brake calipers and hardened cam followers, not so much.
rangerreece
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AI isn’t.
pglaves
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Not easily.
One day about 5 years ago Voni came into the house from a motorcycle ride. She said, "I found a big red horse. If he follows me home can I keep him." I said, "Sure." Little did I know.
This was a horse which had been won in a poker game. The new owner lacked the resources to feed himself very well, let alone take care of the horse. It was just turned out to roam in the desert during the day, and then fed a little hay and watered in the evening.
It took a couple of months but we wound up rescuing the horse, aptly named Big Red. We had the horse for about a year until we found a much better place for a horse to live among a group of six others with real grass, a running stream, and the freedom to roam over a large ranch.
So, I now say, "We owned a horse."
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In order to go along with this, I would have to see the memo from the suppliers to BMW that indicated that the part just had to look like a cam follower and the brakes just had to look like other motorcycle brakes.
Maybe BMW will one day offer a all Berlin parts assembled by two guys from start to finish and test ridden by the top inspector
Until then, I’m afraid everything is globally sourced components, many made by people that have no knowledge of what the part does.
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