Originally posted by jramsey
I was going to change the plugs a couple weeks ago. I had to pay someone $80 to do it, because it's a V6, transverse mount. Three of the plugs are necessarily pointing at the rear of the engine compartment, and you can't just reach them without a crazy, long, articulated wrench. I don't know how they know how much torque they are applying.
Anyway, nothing is hidden, cramped, or transverse on my bike. I work on it at will.
Technogirl said that, the way cars are built today, you can hardly get dental floss into any place under the hood.
Bike solutions, like rain ponchos, fenders, etc., all turn out to be such simple solutions. I believe genius is the ability to simplify a complicated problem, not the other way around. I hope the bike builders never get as crafty as car makers, who purposely build things to fail.
Drug addiction, we say, is evil because it creates an unnatural need in the user that leads to their destruction. By that definition, an automobile is a drug.
But my bike is not, even though I'm addicted, because it does not lead to my destruction; quite the reverse!
Sorry for the diversion from your "Rain Poncho" thread!