gas cap

[the Ferret]

It's for safety and probably a good thing too. I still have the recall card for the cap on my 1976 CB750. It had a thumb latch release but Honda recalled all of the thumb latch bikes to put on the locking kind after a few riders went down and had their caps pop open, spilling/igniting the fuel in the tank. Nothing quite like roasting your testicles after a spill!

"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire".....

Lord I can't begin to tell you how many hundreds of those I installed back then.