Clear and present? Are you some sort of faux CIA operative, getting tech?
You asked for statistics (relative frequency) and refer in your post to something that is nothing but meaningless lists of bods recording a failure. Then you tell us you don't care about statistics. Make your mind up, chum.
My own FPC occurred in the known high crime area of Tower Hamlets, London E1. I often give thanks to the Almighty (and offer regular candles to St Jude) that I and my bike escaped.
Actually, that last bit is not entirely true. It did indeed occur in the clear and present known high crime area of Tower Hamlets, London E1 which (though being London's poorest borough) is not downtown Soweto when the necklace season is in full swing, nor is it pastoral rural England, either. I know this, as I live, clear and present, in London E1.
Being of stout character and employing the best British stoical traditions, I found it best not to sit around imagining all sorts of dire possible consequences; instead I got on a mended it. Not once did I imagine what might have happened, any more than I spend time imagining that a giant bat might swoop down and carry me off to a remote crater on the moon. I did though publish the popular workaround, should anyone ever find themselves stranded outside of the clear and present comfort zone of Tesco's car park on a Saturday morning.
Please don't try to make a drama out of everything; there's enough worry in the world without you heaping more on top. There is an entire thread just starting where bods are getting increasingly worried about getting tail-ended in rainy weather, of which we have a surfeit just at the moment. Of course they don't know anyone who has ever been significantly injured by being tail-ended on a motorway but the sheer sudden realisation that it might happen is sending them scurrying for the hi-viz LED's. The same fellows will probably eschew the wearing of a hi-viz jacket as an infringement of their rights.... But lights? Boy, that's another matter entirely. Lights front, lights back... It's the future!
Should I take your prayers to the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes as a tacit admission?
My apologies - I failed to elaborate that I don't care for YOUR application of statistics.
Frankly, your approach to the whole problem reminds me of an ANC politicians': "It's not my problem, therefore there is no problem". What amazes me is how you hoped to get away with a comment as preposterous as "The incidence of failures has dropped to all but zero" when it plainly isn't true!
There will always be two different schools of thought: one which tries to solve issues with unwarranted faith, and money ("The answer is yet another brand-new FPC"), in opposition to one which investigates failures, identifies them by name, and eliminates them.
Blind hope and denialism has gotten paying customers - and BMW Motorrad - nowhere. Proof of that, if proof were needed, is that the first approach above is obviously not working.
I'm trying my best to formulate a
solution here, with intent to help people a) get home, and b) take a pro-active approach by
eliminating the
root cause of the FPC bug. What do you hope to gain by belittling that, and bringing this crab mentality out to play?
What's going on in your mind, and what is your real game?
If you can't offer any constructive assistance towards a solution, I respectfully suggest that some soul-searching is in order, and ask that you stay out of this thread.
BUT I second the request for info about clutch changes and clutch hydraulics cylinder fixes. Also how to take off the front engine cover for repainting. Certainly its old hat but as time drags along ever more bikes are suffering from salt rash.
Bendy, I'll see what I can do in the near/mid future.
Odd how 'national' priorities differ. Corroded front engine covers are unheard-of here, as we don't use salt on our roads. The most you'll see is a few isolated stone chips.
