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Originally Posted by Yorkie
I started my biking career on Jap bikes, then Italians then Brit bikes. I now have a bunch of Norton’s and in my opinion, compared to Honda or Kawasaki, they are truly awful to work on. Zero Design for Manufacture. Their complexity baffles me. I love them.
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Same for my 1976 Sportster. And, really, for that matter, my 2013 Road King, but to a lesser degree. Old Porsches are just so incredibly well thought out, well laid out, and easy to work on by comparison. Simple little things like how some fasteners are installed - if you cannot access the back side on a Porsche, it's typically a captured nut, it's tacked in place, or the hole is threaded. On the Harleys, you just have to take half the motorcycle apart, completely unrelated assemblies need to be removed, just to get a wrench on the
loose nut on the other side. Ten minutes jobs turn into three hour jobs. Very, very frustrating at times.