forrest wrote on 09/14/08 at 10:45:49:All of the above...and not for taking it seriously. I'm just suprised this thread hasn't been hijacked into another political thread.
Actually, I do honestly appreciate the feedback and take it seriously. I just also have a good sense of humor and have no problem laughing at myself.
Perhaps I can help the political threadjackers by adding that my original plan was to keep it savage simple, but somehow I found myself hoping for change. Real, hopeful change, the sort of change that makes the bike run better in the future than it ran in the past. I was raised in a single cylinder parent family, a mixture of Norton and Triumph parts. It wasn't easy.
I voted for the oil pressure gauge because I was afraid of the "surge" of "big oil" , Haliburton oil. Exxon Valdez oil. First I voted against the oil gauge. Then for it. I wanted to drill a hole in the crankcase to install my oil sender, but I did not think I could drill my way to more oil in less than 7 years (my bits are pretty dull). Then again, doing nothing was not a good plan either.
I started thinking the bike was my property and I should be able to do what I want with it. But then again, what about the common good I thought? Why should I have two speedometers when some poor guy only has one? Or maybe even no speedometer. A speedometer should be a right, not a privilege. Why is it that the government can hand out speeding tickets but not provide the poor with speedometers so they can avoid tickets? It seems that the government is getting pretty selective about what sort of needs it will fulfill by wealth redistribution.
OK.. that should give the search engine enough to work with for now.