and Dictator for Life, the FIRST thing I'm going to do is make it mandatory that anyone who aspires to be a Designer or Engineer spend a minimum of 5 years working in a shop repairing whatever it is they want to design.
It would stop SO much stupidity.
Daughter dropped her Bolt a couple of weeks ago, broke the right front turn signal.
New one came in today and I unpacked it and my first thought was "wrong part". To be sure, I went down to the shed where the bike is stored for the Winter and looked. Nope, right part, monumentally stupid design.
Every bike I've ever owned, and I've owned a few, the procedure for replacing a turn signal is something like:
1. Remove the headlight from the shell. 2 screws, sometimes just one.
2. Unhook 1 or 2 bullet connectors, depending on how the signal is grounded.
3. Take off one nut.
4. Remove signal.
This little gem is a single plastic casting that clamps around the fork tube. Under the top triple clamp. Which means I'll need, at a minimum, to remove the front wheel and drop the right fork tube down in the clamps to slide the signal off over the top.
Haven't looked at all the details yet (dark in the shed...) but I may very well have to deal with caliper, brake plumbing and ABS sensor/wiring while I'm at it.
Not to mention getting everything aligned again once I put it back together.
I'd pay good money to slap the stupid out of the moron that designed that. All that would be left would be teeth and a pocket protector...
It would stop SO much stupidity.
Daughter dropped her Bolt a couple of weeks ago, broke the right front turn signal.
New one came in today and I unpacked it and my first thought was "wrong part". To be sure, I went down to the shed where the bike is stored for the Winter and looked. Nope, right part, monumentally stupid design.
Every bike I've ever owned, and I've owned a few, the procedure for replacing a turn signal is something like:
1. Remove the headlight from the shell. 2 screws, sometimes just one.
2. Unhook 1 or 2 bullet connectors, depending on how the signal is grounded.
3. Take off one nut.
4. Remove signal.
This little gem is a single plastic casting that clamps around the fork tube. Under the top triple clamp. Which means I'll need, at a minimum, to remove the front wheel and drop the right fork tube down in the clamps to slide the signal off over the top.
Haven't looked at all the details yet (dark in the shed...) but I may very well have to deal with caliper, brake plumbing and ABS sensor/wiring while I'm at it.
Not to mention getting everything aligned again once I put it back together.
I'd pay good money to slap the stupid out of the moron that designed that. All that would be left would be teeth and a pocket protector...