Rant Thread Start things off with; Automatic Chokes: No I don't care if your Lambda sensor is telling the central computer that the choke is not still required, I just stalled twice and I want some increased engine revs until I think it is not required dammit.
....people who can't ride them
Digital Instruments, traction control, sheer uglyness of most of them....looks like they were styled by Mattel.
PLASTIC all over
much as I like DUcky, gotta agree wiv ya Wickle...too much bloody plastic. YOu know I cant even get to the widget to check the oil without taking off the plastic. sod it.
Batteries. Invention of the devil. Gimme back my kickstart and a magneto
Admittedly a broad generalization, but it must be said: the owners . . . .
Admittedly a broad generalization, but it must be said: the owners . . . ....gotta be a story in there....?
No centre stands.
Some new ones does has centre stands. K series BMW , Bandit 1200, I'm sure others too.
The price - 4 digits is expensive to me,5 digits is how much I paid for my house...it's not how much I pay for a bike.Last bike I bought on tick was in 1972....young and foolish.
I must state that the owners are not to blame. See if you rode like a dickhead- the bike used to spit you off, thus issuing a lesson to the rider. Pain enduced corrective brain modifyer. The new riders on new bikes do not have this vital ingredient in their learning curve. Their learning curve has been softened by technology to a point in cars of subserviant passive seatbelted potato and bikes are getting that way now. Darwinism still functioned really well for motorcycles in the past- if you f*cked up, you were either dead or had a valuable pain enduced corective brain modifying experience that told you "Don't be a dickhead or it will hurt" Personally, being a slow learner, I've had plenty of these corrective proceedures and am much the better for it
But very often they try to spit you off when you are not being a dickhead. So how does one determine , for the purposes of behaviour modification, whether the spitting off is because one is being a dickhead, or, for instance, simply because it is Tuesday morning, and the bike is sulking. Petal particularly dislikes Tuesday mornings, I have learnt not to waste my time trying to get her to behave then. Which is behaviour modification, to be sure, but not of the same sort.
Ixion Some new ones does has centre stands. K series BMW , Bandit 1200, I'm sure others too. But those are umm... how do I put this diplomatically...shit. And anything decent you find there is sometimes a mainstand available..at extra cost...even more expensive than if you comissioned a general engineering jobbing shop to produce. Nah, +1 to Bender Don't take any crap from your bikes, weild a bigger hammer! If it spits you off and you were not being a dickhead, it was a belated lesson from earlier when you were being one. A lot like relationships actually.. motorcycling teaches you so much.
Your'e right Dodgy, Darwinism is fit and well in the motorcycle fraternity. If one was lucky enough to get spat off and survived the experience, you certainly weighed the odds up when being a Dickhead on future rides. Many haven't been afforded that second chance. John Wayne had a very appropriate saying. "Life is tough. It's even tougher when you're stupid"
