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Wink I wrote a play! It's all fantasy and it doesn't happen in real life.
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Here, here. I agree. The legendary reputation of white propellers against a blue sky would be a smoking heap if it weren't for shops fixing warranty claims. Bit of a mixed blessing though, simply because if the factory engineers were doing the right thing we wouldn't be having this discussion. It seems to me that there are 'whoop" faults and then there are OLD faults that never seem to get rectified until it becomes a warranty claim. In today's world that makes me scratch my head. Considering how many brand new mistakes that could be made, why make the same mistake twice? Seems a tad counter productive to me...

A fantasy – Friday afternoons

Scene 1:

The BMW factory in Berlin: the immigrant worker does not own a motorcycle, not even a BMW – he cannot afford one and he finds it quite hard to understand why anyone would want to ride such a thing when there are very comfortable 4 wheeled vehicles in abundance (he can’t afford one of those either). He is employed on a temporary contract to swing a hammer all day long, thereby inserting gearbox bearings into the back end of BMW boxers as they go past him on the production line. Most of the time his thoughts are elsewhere – back in Poland or Turkey with his family to whom he sends most of his wages. He earns “not a lot” and by sending the cash out of Germany he does not have much money to live upon. His days and nights are a grind with very little to look forward to, other than the satisfaction of providing cash for his wife and kids.
He has no formal mechanical training and is very competent at swinging that hammer.
When frustrated, it is quite stress-relieving to swing a hammer.


Scene 2:

A BMW dealership in a West European country; a fully workshop trained mechanic is to replace a failed gearbox bearing with another of exactly the same type under warranty. He may, or may not, know the owner of the bike, depending on the level of interest shown by that owner and the policies of the dealership in allowing customers to enter the workshop area – Health and Safety considerations are paramount here and are a very effective tool used by the front of shop sales staff to prevent the customers from communicating with the mechanics.
The workshop is well equipped, the mechanic is well paid and gets home to his family every night at the end of his working day. He more or less enjoys his work (except the odd occasion when the suits come in to the workshop) and he loves to ride his Harley D at weekends.
He is a time-served mechanic, has been at the workshop for quite a few years and he gets to work on a variety of BMW bikes thereby solving a range of problems. Unfortunately, this may be a bit of a rush job because there are three others waiting for the same work to be done, it is Friday already and all of those owners want the bike for Saturday to go touring on their annual vacation.

Scene 3:

A BMW owner is about to change the gearbox bearing on his bike; he is an absolute enthusiast, having owned multiple BMWs over many years and he has always done his own maintenance routines and repairs, once the bike went out of warranty of course. He has all of the necessary tools to hand in a well set up garage at home and he has all the time in the world available to him to do this task, because he has other bikes to ride while this one is off the road.
For a hobby, he takes bikes to bits and puts them back together.
He may be a time-served mechanical engineer or he knows one, who happens to be his second-best friend, via the BMW club of which he is a member.
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