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[Interference Fit]

34 minutes ago, Joe85 said:

Why bike manufacturers insist on sculpting beautiful bikes and then piss on everyone's chips by fitting fugly stock mirrors.

I'd guess two elements are at play.

1) Homologation, construction and use rules maybe dictate no sharp edges, minimum viewing angle coverage etc, etc which maybe dictate bland and boring (ugly) designs?

2) Gives the opportunity to make profit selling upgrades?

 

But I fully agree. The current licence plate position mandates have created a big business in tail tidies - I mean look at this....

 

Edited January 26, 2024 by Interference Fit

[skyrider]

35 minutes ago, Interference Fit said:

I'd guess two elements are at play.

1) Homologation, construction and use rules maybe dictate no sharp edges, minimum viewing angle coverage etc, etc which maybe dictate bland and boring (ugly) designs?

2) Gives the opportunity to make profit selling upgrades?

 

But I fully agree. The current licence plate position mandates have created a big business in tail tidies - I mean look at this....

 

yes it looks crap

[husoi]

The constant notifications on my phone.

 

Why do I have to know that I have spent some money 20 seconds after I completed the transaction? 

Not to mention all the other notifications I get during the day with shaite emails.

[Simon Davey]

1 hour ago, husoi said:

 

Why do I have to know that I have spent some money 20 seconds after I completed the transaction? 

 

 

I second this, and to make it worse, it's a transaction completed on the actual phone. 

 

[Nick the wanderer]

I don't use the paying bit on my phone l like to keep some things separate. Can't you just switch off notifications though?

[RideWithStyles]

Yep

Edited May 15, 2024 by RideWithStyles

[Ian Frog]

A proper rear end! 

cheers 

Ian 

[husoi]

Self-checkout!!!!!!!!!!

 

Monday, I went shopping at nearest Sainsbury.

When I went to pay all counters were empty and only available the self-checkouts 

 

So, I told the lady near the self-checkouts to get my basket and put the items back because "I'm not doing your job!" 

 

As principle I don't like people to do my job. So, I absolutely refuse to do others' work.

Plus, I'm not covered by their insurance if something goes wrong.

 

Pay people decent salaries and stop exploiting the ones who pay the money to be served.

There is a reason why I don't do buffet restaurants. If I'm paying to eat out, I want the entire service. 

Edited January 26, 2024 by husoi

[manxie49]

I absolutely despise tyre valves that require you to have hands the size of a 5yr old to check your tyre pressures!  Why manufacturers don't consider this to be a problem when they design the bikes god only knows!

Edited January 26, 2024 by manxie49
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[S-Westerly]

Bikes with no proper rear mudguard which means mud and shite plastered everywhere. A decent rear hugger / mudguard could be combined with a number plate holder. Rarely see one as stock.

[Throttled]

4 hours ago, Joe85 said:

Why bike manufacturers insist on sculpting beautiful bikes and then piss on everyone's chips by fitting fugly stock mirrors.

 

And brake fluid reservoirs.

[Joe85]

6 hours ago, Interference Fit said:

I'd guess two elements are at play.

1) Homologation, construction and use rules maybe dictate no sharp edges, minimum viewing angle coverage etc, etc which maybe dictate bland and boring (ugly) designs?

2) Gives the opportunity to make profit selling upgrades?

 

But I fully agree. The current licence plate position mandates have created a big business in tail tidies - I mean look at this....

 

That is utterly ridiculous. I reckon you could fill a landfill site with disposed of stock license plate holders.

[skyrider]

3 hours ago, Ian Frog said:

A proper rear end! 

cheers 

Ian 

agreed

[RideWithStyles]

mud guards..

 

Edited May 15, 2024 by RideWithStyles

[Mickly]

4 hours ago, husoi said:

Self-checkout!!!!!!!!!!

 

Monday, I went shopping at nearest Sainsbury.

When I went to pay all counters were empty and only available the self-checkouts 

 

So, I told the lady near the self-checkouts to get my basket and put the items back because "I'm not doing your job!" 

 

As principle I don't like people to do my job. So, I absolutely refuse to do others' work.

Plus, I'm not covered by their insurance if something goes wrong.

 

Pay people decent salaries and stop exploiting the ones who pay the money to be served.

There is a reason why I don't do buffet restaurants. If I'm paying to eat out, I want the entire service. 

I had to call someone across to approve me to buy alcohol free beer at the bloody self check out today … what’s that all about?

[RideWithStyles]

o.

Edited May 15, 2024 by RideWithStyles

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

I dislike cars that don't have a temperature gauge. Being able to see the coolant temperature is essential in my book. 

 

By the time a warning light shows its usually too late. 

 

My wife's Skoda Citigo has a detachable screen that can be used as a sat nav or to display various sensors. It's a handy way of doing it. 

Edited January 27, 2024 by Mississippi Bullfrog

[RideWithStyles]

So 

Edited May 15, 2024 by RideWithStyles

[Davidtav]

20 hours ago, RideWithStyles said:

I know but It still contains a fraction amount...by law they have too.

I don’t think that is actually correct. I think that it is the manufacturers themselves that encourage this. They want the experience of buying a zero alcohol product to be as similar as possible to buying the traditional version. Including age verification.

[Steve_M]

Manufacturers who sell a “comfort seat” as an upgrade. Just make the original comfortable, for crying out loud.

 

Lack of easily accessible storage for (for instance) toll tickets / credit card/Mars bar . My ST1100 had a neat little cubby hole suitable for just this (see photo)

 

High level exhausts making one pannier smaller than the other to accommodate the end can.

 

 

[mealexme]

10 hours ago, Steve_M said:

Lack of easily accessible storage for (for instance) toll tickets / credit card/Mars bar . My ST1100 had a neat little cubby hole suitable for just this

I remember getting my first bike with a fairing and wondering if I could cut a hole in the fairing somehow to add one. It just makes sense, yet the ST is the only bike I've seen it on. Other touring bikes might have it too, but why not sports bikes?

[Mickly]

On 26/01/2024 at 21:40, RideWithStyles said:

I know but It still contains a fraction amount...by law they have too.

I’m not sure about that, if that were true then if certain religious groups believed that would not be able to drink it, which they do

Edited January 28, 2024 by Mickly

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

23 hours ago, RideWithStyles said:

So how do you feel about the ones without a dipstick, it "self checks" and at the mercy of the technological revolution of cost cutting of that.

I would never buy a car without some means of physically checking the oil level. 

 

And I do frequent oil changes using a pump that uses the dipstick tube so it's kind of essential.  

 

Plus I suspect the cars without dipsticks tend to at the more expensive end of the market whereas I'm at the rent-a-wreck side of things.

 

 

[husoi]

1 hour ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

I would never buy a car without some means of physically checking the oil level. 

 

And I do frequent oil changes using a pump that uses the dipstick tube so it's kind of essential.  

 

Plus I suspect the cars without dipsticks tend to at the more expensive end of the market whereas I'm at the rent-a-wreck side of things.

 

 

Unless you buy an EV then there is no oil to check

[husoi]

Nor really sure which way this should go.

 

Either toasters that are too small for the loaf or the idiots in the supermarket who should know the size of the toaster and make the phoking bread in a way that fits inside