After waiting 7 months for the delivery of my 2022 Triple Black RT with the classic forged wheels, I finally brought it home last Saturday. What a piece of art❤️
My father worked at the misile base in White Sands New Mexico when he was in the army, and one of the things that they did to teach them about being a good machinist and assemblymen was to take apart Messerschmidt engines to look at. He said that they were never able to replicate the precision with which those engines had been put together! When it comes to precise fabrication and engineering, the Germans are hands down the best! 💪🙌🙌🤟🤙
As I remember the 44 c.i.d. engine in the Crosley auto had a overhead cam , which was driven by a vertical shaft and 2 sets of bevel gears... Same engine was later made into a 44 HP outboard with the crankshaft in the vertical position...
Seeing how boring the job must be and doing the same task over and over again most of the workers are all probably dead inside and don't want to talk 😅
The quiet surprised me too. No music either. I rarely put on music at work myself. It makes it more difficult to understand telephone and radio conversations.
Glad to see BMW still employs human hands for manufacturing. Automation may be more efficient but I'd be proud to own that product (if I could afford LOL).
I live in Texas, but I am from Arizona and can't wait to move back out west so I can have places to ride this fantastic bike. I am 65 and have back issues, they say it is too big and heavy for me, but I find due to its design it does not fall all the way over, about 45 degrees and if done correctly I can put it back up just fine. I ride a 2012 R1200GS Rallye. I just love watching this video. Sometimes at 1/4 speed just to catch all the details.
I think there is more than motorcycle engines put together in this video. 6 in line? Whatever it is, it is very well organized, disciplined, quiet and clean environment to work in. Then a quality check talk to see if things could be done better. Real team work. Congratulations BMW!
Nobody is in a rush but imagine yourself doing the same every single day...being slow or fast is killing you...is stressful job...and I guess is not paid enough...even if is bmw company
É apaixonante .. quero trabalhar aí.. parece tudo dá certo de primeira não tem nada errado não tem stresses .... Muito obrigado pelo vídeo... A profundidade da minha ciência é pouca para julgar o vídeo a fundo... obrigado... Essa tecnologia tem no Brasil???? Abraço..
I owned an 1967 R50/2 and 1968 R60/2 BWM. The connecting rods were assembled onto the crank at the factory with roller bearing on the lower end and brass wrist pin bushing on the top. The engine and transmission cases fit together so well one had to heat one and freeze the other to reassemble. They kick start and magneto ignition which meant if the carbon brushes on the 6V DC generator wore out you could still get home, which I did that way more than once. During a 1977 trip to Canada my R60/2 dropped a valve seat after a marathon 500 mile ride in Nova Scotia. A friend who worked on the old biked air freighted me a spare head which I was able to install with just the tools I had brought with me. Fast forward 25 years and it took an hour just to remove all the plastic fairing on my K1200LT to work on anything.
I worked in a U. S. auto parts factory, where we made power seat systems. Every time something would go wrong with the line, the maintenance people would cobble something together to get the line running again. Any line operating for more than two years was unrecognizable from when it had been new, because of all the quick fixes. Eventually it became almost impossible to fix anything, because the specs of the machines no longer matched any parts on the machines. The plant went out of business in 2008.
@@harryzampetakis7279 It has been studied numerous times in big industry, your statement is false, you are welcome to look it up. Proven numerous times. That is a very old way of thinking.
@@flipjanita you haven't worked in a factory for basic salary I suppose... I drive luxury cars for a living, on basic... Some months per year... I look happy when I have guests in the car... Rest of the time I don't care how much the car costs... or how I look.. Just want to return home, relax and get ready for the next trip.. Absolutely understand these guys...
i have yes, steel industry , my basic was high but the company is now ruined, and my standard of living did go up. But that is something you get used to after a while hey@@harryzampetakis7279
Actually there are Honda Gold Wing, BMW 1600 GT/GTL/GTB, Horex 6 cylinder motorcycles. And The "cylinder King" is the American made BOSS HOSS with an Chevy V8 Small Block and one with an V8 big Block.
sometimes when i want to slap my coworker's face because he his talking again about his ex girlfriend, i'm dreaming about doing this kind of a job. Just working, alone with the machinery, concetrated.
That`s amazing! for each step they have a special tool: rubber "thing" for camshaft chain fixation during assembly for example - 2:12 ...duct tape + any tool- that`s it...ain't go anywhere)
It's amazing, astonishing, . . . . . the advance of technology! Someone that was born 2, 3 hundred years ago (yesterday in history) wouldn't believe all this wasn't created by a supreme being.
