I wonder is people will still be talking about those stupid crosshatches 100 years from now.
With moly faced rings, I like my cylinders to look like a mirror. All a bunch of angled scratches are good for are letting oil into the cylinder and blowby into the oil pan.
Funny story. When I was racing out of a bike shop in Auburn, I met a couple of Brits that came over here to open a cylinder repair business. They specialized in re-nikasil plating aluminum cylinders. After starting up they started to get complaints because there were no crosshatches (and the plating is so tough, you can't do it by hand).
They had to go spend over $50,000US in machinery so they could mess up a damn near perfect finish just to make the customer happy. I always had to remember to tell them not to scratch up my shit when I had cylinders replated.
They also used the phrase ''bedding in'' instead of ''breaking in''. I was fun to watch them cringe at the mental image of how crude it is to ''break' in a brand new build.
