This is my first post and I just had to jump in on this topic. I have had my busa
about 3 months and have 3,600 miles on it... zero problems. I have to admit that
before I bought the bike I saw all the posts on the cut out problems but got the
bike anyway, I assumed the risk.
As a manufacture myself (not in this industry) I can tell you that the liability
situation in this country is going to be our downfall. Consider yourself lucky that
Suzuki has the balls to offer a bike like this to the American public, believe me,
that could easily change in the near future. What you don't understand is that
perfection is not obtainable. No matter how many engineers and millions of
dollars in research and development are spent, something unsuspected is going
fail in some way and if you think lawsuits are going to protect you, you are
wrong. In fact these law suits are getting people killed, here is an example of
what I am talking about.
Ten or so years ago I did some work for a major helicopter company and was in
their plant one day talking to one of their engineers. I noticed a sharp vee
shaped object at the top of the windscreen and asked the guy what that was for.
He told me that was a device to sever any phone or power cables that a hapless
pilot might fly into. He said it worked great and was a great pity they could not
install it as a standard feature on all the helicopters as it would save many lives.
This didn't sound logical until he explained further. He said that thing could sever
1000 cables and save 1000 lives but then there would be that one cable it would
fail to cut and the liability was just too much for the company to risk, this was a
sobering thought. Why didn't suzuki rush in, admit and then correct this cut out
problem? The answer to this is very simple, admitting the problem and trying to
correct it will be used against them in court. It puts manufactures in the
impossible position of correcting your problems and get sued or don't correct
your problems and get sued. What would you do?