I like bikes I can work on,and I like bikes that lend themselves to change easily.
I've owned a couple of bikes that were ultra reliable,had all the fruit like electronic ignition,fuel injection,tubeless tyres,alloy wheels,,or a combination of most of that utterly boring crap.
Now I know why so many young guys can't gap a spark plug or change a tyre.
These same bikes had dirty little things to stop the owner working on them or changing anything,,,even just changing the handle bars,,they had little indenting type knobs that only matched the standard bars,,,angle grinder made short work of that rubbish.
But then they never missed a beat,never did anything much other than run an stop an just about put you to sleep thinking about them,,,,,,,sold both inside 6 months an went back to me old, slow, ok handling, not to bad breaking, normaly reliable,mostly oil tight,always vibrating twins,,that I can tune myself,rebuild myself,change any bloody thing I want myself.
Think I'll run get fucked bars next week
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