The official "Why?" thread 2016

**AllanB** · 19th February 2016, 22:34

The official 'Why?" thread 2016

As in:

WHY DUCATI? Why is every friggen bolt coated in red loctite?

or after tonights effort starting with the above and finishing in:

WHY EVOTECH does your rear peg eliminator/exhaust hanger not fit my bike? (the stock ones are a shit to remove... so imagine my surprise when it did not fit).

So, post your own 'why'

**Laava** · 20th February 2016, 07:55

Why Suzuki? Why are you still putting budget ball race bearings in your steering heads?

**nzspokes** · 20th February 2016, 11:37

Why Ducati owners? Do you not understand that they need to have locktight on the bolts so bits dont rattle off?

Why motorcycle retailers? Do your sales staff have no idea what they are selling?

**eldog** · 20th February 2016, 11:57

Originally Posted by Laava

Why Suzuki? Why are you still putting budget ball race bearings in your steering heads?

makes you wonder if that happens there then WHY don't they put cheap arse bits everywhere else. Maybe because it doesn't really need precision parts for that job.
It just needs to hold together and not disintegrate on normal use.

Why don't they sell, After market Traction Control kits

**Tazz** · 20th February 2016, 12:19

**eldog** · 20th February 2016, 12:29

Tazz's pic above

I wondered when dinner would turn up, well why not, looks like a hot dog

**Madness** · 20th February 2016, 12:41

Why can't some people spell Loctite correctly?

**eldog** · 20th February 2016, 12:54

because they are using the cheap Chinese version

**oldrider** · 20th February 2016, 13:01

Why? - it's a word that drives conformists crazy! - Why? - because they like everything tidy and bundled up according to the first explanation that they hear!

**Swoop** · 20th February 2016, 15:20

Originally Posted by eldog

because they are using the cheap Chinese version

"Rocktite"

Awesome stuff! Holds on like a fat chick in a pie shop!
... for 1.900000000000000000000^th second, then fails "dramatically".

**AllanB** · 20th February 2016, 15:37

Originally Posted by Madness

Why can't some people spell Loctite correctly?

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**AllanB** · 20th February 2016, 15:43

Originally Posted by nzspokes

Why Ducati owners? Do you not understand that they need to have locktight on the bolts so bits dont rattle off?

I reckon it is some throw back to the 70's. Bloody bike is the smoothest I ridden, what vibration?

Here is one of my biggest bug bears since the 2010/11 Canterbury earthquakes.

WHY CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL can you not resurface a road AND remove the bumps and dips? What a bloody waste of money. Stupid Council arses.

**Grumph** · 20th February 2016, 15:51

Originally Posted by AllanB

Here is one of my biggest bug bears since the 2010/11 Canterbury earthquakes.

WHY CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL can you not resurface a road AND remove the bumps and dips? What a bloody waste of money. Stupid Council arses.

Not exclusive to CCC. same out here too. It's in the contract wording - if it doesn't specify relevelling as part of the contract it doesn't get done.
If it's cheaper to leave it out, then whoopdefuck, we can get more road done for the budget money - and the contracts supervisor gets his performance bonus as exceeding expected levels of financial chicanery...

**AllanB** · 20th February 2016, 15:54

Originally Posted by Grumph

Not exclusive to CCC. same out here too. It's in the contract wording - if it doesn't specify relevelling as part of the contract it doesn't get done.
If it's cheaper to leave it out, then whoopdefuck, we can get more road done for the budget money - and the contracts supervisor gets his performance bonus as exceeding expected levels of financial chicanery...

I was wondering about that - if they are contracted to 'resurface' that is all they will do. A road I travel each day has just been resurfaced - familiar old dips still under it and give it a few weeks that part of the new surface will fail and they will be out there cutting a section out to the fresh road, patching it and if true to form the patch will then sink and form a big lip on the tail end ........