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this been posted yet? HD sued over danger of air cooled engines. So hot pants will catch on fire? lol. I love our legal system.

People will sue over anything. What idiot will wear flammable pants on a bike anyway? The world is full of greedy lazy a holes.

When you design an item no matter how much you try to idiot proof it, there is always one who sneaks out of the shallow end of the gene pool and is undetected until they have damaged something. I have ridden bikes that got the exhaust pipes red hot and had no problems. I pulled in one day to a gas station after a long ride on the highway at high speed and I put the bike up on the center stand. While I was taking my gear off I noticed motion to my right. It was a two year old zeroed in on the bike headed right toward the exhaust. I had to drop my helmet to catch the little fart before he got incinerated by the pipes. I stood between him and the bike blocking his path. When he realized I wasn't going to allow him near the bike he pitched a bitch fit. Only then did his good mother realize he was over 75 feet away from her and in danger. She pitched a bitch fit and asked why he could not touch my bike. I told her that the bike would Bar-B-Que his ass since I just got off of the Highway. I told her she probably should not be raising children if she did not understand the danger of letting a toddler run loose where cars, trucks, and motorcycles could cause severe bodily injury or death in an instant. And that's where the riot started! I still smile when I think of the police officer getting ready to arrest me for disorderly conduct and the witnesses stepped up and told the truth. The young lady almost went to jail for child endangerment and neglect. Thank God for witnesses that stand up and do the right thing even for "Biker Trash" as I was called by the young lady.

The "catching on fire" part of the suit is B.S. However, running so hot that it cause bearing failure and Premature engine failure may actually have some merit. maybe a redesign in HD air-cooled motors is justified? Hope they don't try to copy on of those "Riceburner" motors like on those Roadstars!

Bushman52 wrote:
The "catching on fire" part of the suit is B.S. However, running so hot that it cause bearing failure and Premature engine failure may actually have some merit. maybe a redesign in HD air-cooled motors is justified? Hope they don't try to copy on of those "Riceburner" motors like on those Roadstars!It seems that you would move your leg before your pants caught fire. It can't be instantaneous even with direct contact to the pipes at the head.

In the famous words of Richard Pryor, "When you are on fire....people git out of your way!!!"

Hmmm... Our bikes puke gasoline all over the hot engine and exhaust.
Nobody's Suing YamaMomma...Or are they???

We just adapt and ride the thing.

Bushman52 wrote:
Hope they don't try to copy on of those "Riceburner" motors like on those Roadstars!

We wouldn't recognize them if they didn't 'Shake like a Chehuahua'!

this thread just burns my arse

ba dum-bum! Thank you ladies and germs, I'll be here all week!