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From: Thomas on 29 Apr 2010 01:09 On Apr 28, 1:17 pm, davethedave <davedfos...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:30:10 +0100, Salad Dodger wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:53:53 -0700 (PDT), Thomas <keens...(a)gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >>On Apr 26, 8:07 am, Salad Dodger <salad.dod...(a)idnet.com> wrote: > >>> When you need to do a pair of jobs, that one is piddlingly easy, and > >>> the other impossible. > > >>Sometimes you can blame an engineer. > > Pah. You're preaching to the choir on Honda's complexity for simple > > jobs. > > Why do Honda do it? Why? They all seemed to be designed to cause you maximum grief. I think it's about dealer service. Honda wants you to take the machine to a factory service rep for all maintenance. Then they can charge you an arm and a leg to do the slightest work.
From: The Older Gentleman on 29 Apr 2010 02:04 Thomas <keensurf(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I think Not really, no. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: turby on 29 Apr 2010 02:29 On Apr 28, 11:04 pm, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > Thomas <keens...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I think > > Not really, no. Yes, really.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 29 Apr 2010 02:32 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Thomas <keensurf(a)gmail.com> saying something like: >> Why do Honda do it? Why? They all seemed to be designed to cause you maximum grief. > >I think it's about dealer service. Honda wants you to take the machine >to a factory service rep for all maintenance. Then they can charge you >an arm and a leg to do the slightest work. Not unknown as a motivation, but sometimes it can simply be a culture of over-complexity in the design stage as people try to keep their jobs by appearing busy. Such doodles often end up on the production line - Citroen underbonnet was a classic example, as were Japanese wiring looms.
From: Pip on 29 Apr 2010 02:44
Salad Dodger wrote: > "Front brake pads not tested" on the yellow slip. > > Can't see them without taking off the disc covers, and you're not > allowed to dismantle the bike while testing. > > This is its eleventh MOT (fifth from the same place) and the first > time it's been noted. > > They did test the brakes, though. Well, yeah, I was gunna say, like. "Not examined" should have been the phrase. I realise that they're constrained to a comapratively narrow choice of preset phrases these days, but you'd think that 'examined' would be in there. Well done on the green sheet, thoughbut. -- Pip: B12 |