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    Curse of the clutch!

    Dec 16, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS AND PICS: RALPH FERRAND

    There are a good number of people who think that the BMW Boxer powered bike is at the pinnacle of the motorcycle tree. I have to be honest and say that I am not one of these devotees, but as the years have gone by I have developed a respect for the Boxer.

    I have no time for the latest crop of bikes coming from Munich, because they are absolutely rammed full of computerised wizardry and CAN bus (Controller Area Network), which in my humble opinion is the work of Satan himself (Robert Bosch Gmbh). It supposedly makes diagnostics simpler and uses thinner wires. In my experience it prevents normal engineers from working on these bikes as they need to

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