Hi,
On 7 September 2011 01:34, Daniel Villarreal <yclwebmas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, that's very interesting. Melkus Sportwagen GmbH is offering an RS
> 2000 for only 109.900 EUR. The RS 1000 had a 2-stroke engine. I bet that
> gets some attention.
>
> I was just studying production-line methods of Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz
> SLS Gullwing and Automobili Lamborghini Holding Spa's MurciC)lago.
I'm glad Mercedes are careful about things. Unfortunately this is not the
case
for BMW, at least not their motorcycles.
eg. with the F650GS single-cylinder bikes up to 2003 had a known problem
where the front wheel would occasionally separate from the rest of the bike.
This is a fairly major problem to have, and IIRC at least one lady ended up
with a badly broken leg as a direct result.
BMW's response was to do warranty replacements on the broken bikes,
admit no fault under any circumstances, yet the 2004 model suddenly had
a new design for the lower fork legs... There was no safety recall issued.
Most of the BMW dealers I've spoken to haven't even noticed the difference
in the forks, nevermind actually known about the problems.
They seem to be great at building engines, and their bikes have wonderful
switchgear[1], and they have never hesitated to depart radically from the
motorcycling norm (look at their suspension designs!), but often the final
implementation of their good ideas is utterly woeful.
Thinking about the above highlighted for me the aspect of OpenBSD that
attracted me. It's not enough to have good ideas. Implementation quality
and subsequent maintenance/support matters just as much, if not more.
John
[1] yeah, seems like such a small thing... but it's the first thing I notice
whenever I ride a Japanese bike. Switchgear quality = awful
