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Took me all of a day to get used to and appreciate the three control system but it's difficult to go to another bike!
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... and if you look really close there is a clutch lever too)
I suspect that BMW had other reasons than just the press idiots to change controls - maybe some new European Union standard, or something to do with Canbus, or maybe a new supplier emerged. In any case - in my book it is a step backwards.
I have more trouble remembering that my car has a floor shift while my SUY and truck have column shifts. My arm grabs at empty air.
easiest to operate turn signals were on my hd electraglides. Simple big button one on each side. Push to turn on. Push to cancel or wait until it self cancelled.
The next best were the ones on my lt and rt. But didn't care for the right thumb up cancel button.
Next is the switch on my 90/6. Pretty simple, up for right, down for left and middle for cancel.
Least favorite is the one on the honda. One switch on a very cluttered control that is almost impossible to operate without looking. God forbid my life ever was to depend on finding the horn.
I've been thinking about this. Despite an earlier post saying that I've never liked the three button setup, it's the third button — the cancel button — that I don't like.
Since signaling then canceling is part of single, coordinated, linear process it seems a bit nonintuitive to break the left-right paradigm halfway through the process by switching to a right hand-only cancellation using an entirely separate button that's shaped and pushed differently.
I agree with what others have said: it makes more sense to have two buttons. Click the right or left button to turn right or left, then click that same button again to cancel. Simple. It doesn't even require moving one's thumb from one switch to another.
the turn signal is used to signal intent
Why are three switches necessary to do the job of one switch?
They took a step backwards with this (one button) change.
... And while I'm at it my K100 had a friction lock on the throttle that the '03 doesn't have. I am not sensing progress here.