Keyless Gas Caps

silver · Post by **silver** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:01 am

Now exactly why in the world are these "Keyless Gas Cap YZF FZR1000 FZR 1000 Fazer 750 1000" $90 ?????

Last winter I had more than a couple of occasions to wonder if having a keyless cap wasn't the way to go as I was trying to thaw out the ice that had managed to clog my tanks lock. But $90 ?? !!!!

dragracer1951 · Post by **dragracer1951** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:33 am

One word......
BLING

silver · Post by **silver** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:00 am

And lots of it evidently. Any alternatives out there ?

dragracer1951 · Post by **dragracer1951** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:17 am

I would suppose the alternative would be to spend $150k for a machine center and another $20k for programming software and make your own....

Just kidding.

It's a mater of the economys of volume. There just isn't much call for keyless gascaps for 16 year old sportbikes. So the runs are smaller and you get to amortize the tooling and setup costs across less parts. Add those costs to the runtime X the shop rate plus the material and anodize costs, add in a little profit and there ya go. $90 each

silver · Post by **silver** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:37 pm

Having owned a business of my own, I understand the economics however I think there are a couple points worth mentioning.

1) The same cap fits numerous other bikes and many of them are newer.

2) It would seem to me that something made to replace the locking cylinder would be more economical than replacing the entire lid and barrel.

djalbin · Post by **djalbin** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:51 pm

Now exactly why in the world are these "Keyless Gas Cap YZF FZR1000 FZR 1000 Fazer 750 1000" $90 ?????

For the same reason a Gucci belt is $225.00 ($179.00 discount price). :cool
I'm not sure what the reason is ... but apparently it's reason enough for those who buy it.

http://www.designersimports.com/cat-gucci-belts.htm

Don

silver · Post by **silver** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:55 pm

I'm beginning to think that I'll just drill it out and put a knob on it !

aidybest · Post by **aidybest** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:28 pm

a bid of wd 40 in the locking mechanism now and again - jobs a good'n -

Post by **Hooligan** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:24 am

there are a boat load of keyless knobs that will work on our bikes.

desmo01 · Post by **desmo01** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:43 am

I'm a clueless knob and I work on our bikes. Does that count?

I don't have a boat though...

Post by **Hooligan** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:50 am

hahahaha, nearly fell outta my chair after reading that post desmo!

hellraiser · Post by **hellraiser** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:23 pm

:Rolling

Post by **FZRDude** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:00 pm

:Rolling