Bad news travels fast. Happy customers are quiet customers. Unhappy customers raise a stink.I can only agree with you. Scuttlebutt used to be the term for passed on rumours and inuendo . As the owner since new of a V65 Lario which has never had a valve issue I can only feel for those who are on the web looking for real info and all they find is waffle about reliability. All manufacturers get the occasional bad unit but that becomes worse with all those who had a brother ,cousin or friends great aunt mary who had nothing but trouble