19-12-14, 02:15 PM
(19-12-14, 09:09 AM)Simon.Pieman link Wrote: [quote author=PaulSmith link=topic=15480.msg177367#msg177367 date=1418642355]
One of the reasons manufacturers go with rubber hoses even on thier high end kit is that their bikes are sometimes bought by fools with no skill, experience or training. These are the sort of people who are more likely to grab at the brakes and so have a fractionally better chance of survivng if the breaks are soggy and slow to grip.
No manufacturer would use that logic. From both an engineering and marketing view it's doesn't make any sense.
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It makes less sense to be known as the company that makes 'widowmakers'. Yamaha are believed to have a lot of potential sales in the seventies across all their bikes because they made the RD350. An absolute nutters bike deeply loved by nutters but it scared off many 'normal' bikers. And bikes that pitch inexperienced riders over the bars, even if they shouldn't be riding them in the first place, do not make good marketing material.