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Peter I'm not particularly taking a poke at you. It is just that you have summed up pretty well what a number of people are saying.

There are a fair number of motorcycle manufacturers who make bevel drives that do not whine and many of them have motors that are on a par for power (but not for torque pulses) with the S&S motor fitted in the M3W. In fact Moto Guzzi bevel drives have been used in a tremendous number of 3 wheelers. With new bikes there are very rarely any warranty problems and the most common of those is an oil seal failure. Mounting the bevel box on isolating material instead of directly on the frame may help some but I would have expected Quaife to have done better. I have never seen inside one but I wonder if they are using straight cut gears instead of helical cut gears. Let us hope for some improvement in future models.

Yes, I have changed the springs in my car but that was a choice, not a necessity. The issue with the M3W is something else alltogether. I have only driven an M3W in a flat car park so I can't really comment from personal experience and it was an early model in any case. The very fact that people are reporting differing experiences seems to point to slight variations in steering setup having a tremendous effect. Without a doubt there are technical design issues but it does seem that the steering can be improved with the existing setup. I am sure that within a short while there will be solutions available from Morgan and that someone will finally work out why some are experiencing bad bump steer and others not.

Yes, "it is, what it is", but it could be better, in fact the bevel drive should be better, and personally I think that the people who are complaining about bad bump steer are not imagining things, but even for that there seems to be at least a partial solution on the way. A little patience, understanding and good will is required on all sides.