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A chain drive, carburetors, and manufacturing plants in Taiwan
What's wrong with any of those things?
Shafts-
While everyone talks about how worry free shaft drives are the simple fact is chains break, belts break, shafts break, there is no such thing as an infalable part so really it's a matter of preference and I'd gladly give 15 min. of my tiime every few hundred miles for the ability to change my gearing when ever I feel like it.
Carburators-
I for one like the idea of being able to change the settings manually, shimming the needles, changing the needles, changing the jets, ect...
Taiwan-
Are you trying to suggest that the people in Taiwan are inferior to the British? They work for less money true but I've never seen anything to suggest that the workmanship is sub-par. I personally have had meny things that were made in Taiwan that outlasted similar products made in the US. I don't think you can blame Triumph for trying to save a bit on labor and increasing their profit margin. Triumph is afterall a business and you don't go into business to lose money.
Just my two cents
Let my dying thought be that every mile was fun and let my tombstone read,"They never made one fast enough for me."
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