It's called "Design For Serviceability" and is usually just part of the long list of items that are "critical to design quality" that a design engineer is supposed to work towards. But that's somewhere else, in a place usually known as Utopia. In the real world that we all live in, DFS cost $ just like any other design "features", which means that quite often in the rush to get a particular design to market on time and on budget, while retaining as many sexy features as possible, DFS often goes in the CFC.
It could be worse. You could be conscientiously trying to replace the air filter on a Triumph Trophy. <_<
To do that regularly scheduled maintenance item requires:
Remove seat
Remove rear luggage rack
Remove entire rear cowling
Remove fuel tank
Remove carburetors
Pull out air filter-box assembly
Replace the entire air filter-box assembly (you can't just get the filter inside, it comes only as an air-box assembly)
...and of course, "Reassembly procedure is the reverse of disassembly" Grab your spanners!
Damn, don't you know THAT'S a PITA! Seems a number of us have a Trophy for a second bike. I couldn't believe how hard a job that was to do.
Well, no... having been deep inside the nose of all model year Gen I's, and a 2006 Gen II, the Gen I's are pretty much all the same, and have a significant amount of additional room to work in compared to the Gen II's.
Yea, what DC said. Besides a small handed gurl friend can be a great ego boost for you.
Plus she won't be as disappointed during the juxtaposition of her hands and your "special purpose".Yea, what DC said. Besides a small handed gurl friend can be a great ego boost for you.
It could be, even, worse:Fred,It's called "Design For Serviceability" and is usually just part of the long list of items that are "critical to design quality" that a design engineer is supposed to work towards. But that's somewhere else, in a place usually known as Utopia. In the real world that we all live in, DFS cost $ just like any other design "features", which means that quite often in the rush to get a particular design to market on time and on budget, while retaining as many sexy features as possible, DFS often goes in the CFC.
There are good companies that still do a total design job - function, production and maintenance/serviceability. But they are becoming rarer. That's really too bad because it definitely is an issue of "pay me now or pay me later". Companies that assiduously do "life cycle planning" almost always wind up being less expensive to deal with, in the long run.
Dan
Knowing you, I bet you were cussing like a fothermucker the whole 20 minutes, too.
Me, apparently. When I bought my '04 3 years ago, the right one was out. Stopped to get a bulb and the parts guy gave me two. Ahhh... OK. Not long after I understood why, as the left one then went out about 2 weeks later.
johnny80s: You would think that as much as SkooterG jerks off, that his hands would be bigger!!! jes' sayin'
Isn't it great how these threads deteriorate ? :lol:Plus she won't be as disappointed during the juxtaposition of her hands and your "special purpose".Yea, what DC said. Besides a small handed gurl friend can be a great ego boost for you.
Because it started off at such a HIGH level. ..Degenerates is the term I prefer, and that applies to both the progression of the thread and its participants..
Spoken by an individual that routinely rides with Old Michael and Bokerfork. nuff' said'Degenerates is the term I prefer, and that applies to both the progression of the thread and its participants..
