I think we should resurrect PEI and have him flogged!
What else should we do, make the crank differently, there is a lot of talk about that, do a better job with the cylinders and liners, and of course tapered rollers in the head stock, and those hemi heads are a disgrace, not to mention all that funky stuff going on under the timing cover, and surely they could have found better suppliers for generators, lighting and sparking equipment, and why those tall skinny tires, well except on the D's and touring models, and that horrible seat mounting affair, and I forgot to mention the nasty and very problematic clutch. If he was such a future thinker why has it taken us close on to 80 year to now start finding "proper" solution to this horrible piece of machinery. I've only managed something like 150,000 miles on them with only one breakdown that required retrieval, and even that was self inflicted. Should have pulled the crank apart after a major bearing failure and I would have found the hard bit plugging the oil hole in the crank pin, even then it took around 10K miles to rear its ugly head.
No, I have an RC51 that has all the trick stuff, but never my first choice to go out and live life with.