Quote: In the coming age of fuel injection , shaft drives and alloy wheels , the things that attracted me to the '05 Bonnie were wire spokes , carburetors and chain drive . These are the traditional things that sometimes cry out for human intervention . A totally maintenance - free system can be tantamount to boredom . It's theraputic for some to be able to tweak and tune and repair . I ' m a hopeless romantic and purist , locked into a mechanical age , albeit we must be able to adapt to the inevitable , much is to be said about the heritage of the age of machinery . The bewildered impotent mechanic - the tragic victim of a technical world .
Yeah, but BMW has had wire spokes and shaft drive since the Kaiser was in power, so shaft drive isn't exactly new fangled technology ya know! I loved it on my Sabre back in 91, wish I had it now. Was kind of neat in it's own way to just pull an axle bolt and slide it off of the spline...
