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flw wrote:My Goldwing has a dipstick and center stand which takes some practice at 800 lbs.

I saw the coolest thing in Northern Ontario on the way home from our motorcycle vacation a couple weeks ago... we were at a gas station in Terrace Bay, sitting in the shade for a few minutes after refueling, when this guy pulls up to the pumps on a late model BMW touring rig. He shuts the motor off, flicks a switch and an electric centrestand comes down from under the bike and fully deploys with him still sitting on the seat!

I have got to get me one of those!

Grey Thumper wrote: The current version of our bikes, HYPERR; the R1200R. IIRC, the filler cap moved to the right cylinder ever since they had the twin cam engine.

I didn't know that. I wonder why, that's very silly.

The kawasaki Vulocan 900. Kawasaki puts on a windshield so tall that it has to be cut down or changed. The clutch lever is designed for strong mammoth hands. Almost everyone has to modify it.

Battery box. Grrrr. Its under the seat and easy to get to, but once your battery is dropped into the magic box, try to get a hold of it to pull it out when winter hits. I usually need to use 2 screw drivers like chop sticks to get it up far enough to grab. And still end up racking off the skin on a couple knuckles. I should glue a piece of string onto the thing to make it a bit easier. Oh and the main electrical cable goes right over top to, so yet another obstacle. So glue a handle on the battery. Or hey, Kawai, make the batteruy box a couple inches shallower. Ugh.

Doesn't help that when I do this its usually cold enough outside to make you loose all sensation in your fingers in short order too. Lol

Is there any other company apart from Harley Davidson still making push rod engines?

rayian wrote:Just wondering. Is there any other company apart from Harley Davidson still making push rod engines?

The new Royal Enfield UCE engines still have push rods. I think the 1700cc Yamaha Road Star twins are push rod.

rayian wrote:There's a guy on another forum that I frequent who has the signature

Just wondering. Is there any other company apart from Harley Davidson still making push rod engines?

About a push-rod engine, it's a design look more than anything. In fact, I'd hesitate to say a push rod engine is more reliable than today's current design.

Mike

rayian wrote:Is there any other company apart from Harley Davidson still making push rod engines?

I think BMW boxers still used pushrods until pretty recently (like, last year).

Still very common in the car world, but otherwise mostly bigger cruiser motors.

gotta add mine here because i an there now

honda deicded to put some overengineered fork on the left side that requires $200 of specialty tools to change, and no they do nothing else just the left fork on a vtx 1800 (not the 1300 it is regular)