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Why does this port have threaded insert?

windshield wiper. Stick a screw driver in it and twist it back and forth to clean the glass.

(06-15-2021, 07:53 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]windshield wiper. Stick a screw driver in it and twist it back and forth to clean the glass.

Never would have guessed that one - thanks.

(06-15-2021, 07:53 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]windshield wiper. Stick a screw driver in it and twist it back and forth to clean the glass.

I love telling people that when they ask.

You should see oil in it with the engine at rest, on the centrestand, to the upper mark.

(06-15-2021, 07:53 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]windshield wiper. Stick a screw driver in it and twist it back and forth to clean the glass.

I heard the new 2022 BMWs R1250GS will have a power wiper ....... Maybe not.

To be honest, I never bothered to turn the wiper because the glass was never polluted. The CB1100 is a well engineered machine.

However, inline-4s of my past I would sometimes see the looking glass have a sort of "white icing stain" on the inside of the view glass. No wiper back in those days.

(06-15-2021, 08:10 AM)pekingduck_imp Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-15-2021, 07:53 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]windshield wiper. Stick a screw driver in it and twist it back and forth to clean the glass.

I heard the new 2022 BMWs R1250GS will have a power wiper ....... Maybe not.

I heard the new 2022 BMWs R1250GS will have a power wiper ....... Maybe not.
Some of the functions of my ebike are operated from my phone using an app. It's the Space Age.

(06-15-2021, 10:03 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: [ -> ]To be honest, I never bothered to turn the wiper because the glass was never polluted. The CB1100 is a well engineered machine.

However, inline-4s of my past I would sometimes see the looking glass have a sort of "white icing stain" on the inside of the view glass. No wiper back in those days.

I have never seen any another motorcycle with a wiper, I like the idiosyncrasy of it. I wonder why the Honda Engineers decided to fit it if it was not emulating some part of its past?

(06-15-2021, 07:11 PM)Tev62_imp Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-15-2021, 10:03 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: [ -> ]To be honest, I never bothered to turn the wiper because the glass was never polluted. The CB1100 is a well engineered machine.

However, inline-4s of my past I would sometimes see the looking glass have a sort of "white icing stain" on the inside of the view glass. No wiper back in those days.

I have never seen any another motorcycle with a wiper, I like the idiosyncrasy of it. I wonder why the Honda Engineers decided to fit it if it was not emulating some part of its past?

I have never seen any another motorcycle with a wiper, I like the idiosyncrasy of it. I wonder why the Honda Engineers decided to fit it if it was not emulating some part of its past?
At least some good news is I have not read about a CB1100 owner complaining that their wiper seal leaked.