Technology - has it taken over?

[Pixie]

I was surfing through a thread on big Hondas and loving the trip down memory lane. Bikes from the eighties are just so cool.

I have spent too much time on TradeMe looking at bikes I'll never buy, but one thing struck me. Have we been overtaken by the technology?

My personal bike is a 1999 model, and part of the attraction is that I can work on it myself easily, it's fairly simple. There is a world of information and lots of blogs about things I can do to it.

Thing is, if I owned a brand new 1000cc fire breathing rocket ship of pretty much any brand, I wouldn't know where to find the spark plugs, let alone change them. Holy cow,
the hi-tech thing has just gone mad on bikes. I'd be having to take it back to the dealer just to do basic things.

I'm getting old chaps (and chapettes), as I long for the days of simplicity, not increasing technology.

Am I alone in this?

The sparkplugs are at the top of the round hollow thingies

[Pixie]

I'm no Luddite. Got my son an iPhone for his birthday the other week, and recently got my daughter an iPod for hers, was dead chuffed when the family clubbed together and bought me an iPad for father’s day. Got my wife an iRon for her birthday, it was around then the fight started …

When is the iSuppository going to be released?