{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Man, Harley-Davidsons. Fuck Harleys. Harley engines are a 1990s tweak of a 1970s update of a 1930s engine built by people who...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/45822996049/", "html": "<p>Man, Harley-Davidsons. Fuck Harleys. Harley engines are a 1990s tweak of a 1970s update of a 1930s engine built by people who learned engine design from 1910s farm machinery.<br/><br/>Not that there&rsquo;s nothing to be said for that. A modern Harley mounts the most reliable 1930s engine in history, and when it fails it fails in very well-documented ways.<br/><br/>Mazda for a long time made cars with Wankel rotary engines (1960s, y'all) which were a significant step up from piston engines, but no one had a goddamned clue how to maintain them.<br/><br/>And I mean hell, before that we spent a few thousand years mastering the ox and horse.<br/><br/>What we really need is another world war to legacy us with a decent knowledge base on turbine engines.</p>"}