Steering stem nuts

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Steve_H80

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24 months

Saturday 11th May
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Why do manufacturers use such weird designs for the steering stem nut? My Silverwing has an 8 sided nut, the v-strom a weird star shaped thing.
Every other nut, bolt & screw on every bike I've ever tinkered with has been normal 6 sided, torx or JIS so why go weird on this one?