Gyrobob
Serious Thumper
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Posers ain't motorcyclists
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Newnan, GA
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sbaugz stated: call me a poser if you want. Doesn't bother me. Seeing as there will be hundreds of these RYCA kits around, is it wrong to make yours unique. Look at Buddha's post- he is polishing every part of his to make is nice and shiney. I am spending money on mine to make it dull and blacked-out. Its called being an individual and if you think that makes me a poser, then you are mistaken.
My my, we do get our feathers ruffled easily, eh? Ease up. This is fun stuff, not an argument.
You make some invalid assumptions. I never said we should all look the same. That is something more likely to be spewed from the mouth of a harley poser,... observe how most of them feel they must wear an appropriate costume.
I had considered making mine all blacked out as well. I think, though, I'll go more for making my CS-1 resemble what I lusted over when I was a kid,... the cafe racers based on BSA Gold Stars and Velocettes.
My first new bike was a Norton Atlas 750. It had Avon Speedmaster tires, one of the "true" performance setups in those days. I think I'll spend the extra coin and get a set of those for mine, just to make it more period correct,.... for me,... not for mythical poser-lookers.
I'm even searching around for a 4-leading shoe front brake!! I know the lightweight and tidy LS650 brake works better, but when I was 20, we ooood and ahhhhd over 4LS brakes,... so it would please ME to set up my CS-1 that way.
Anyway, don't get your panties in a wad accusing me of things I didn't do. You said I said you were a poser if you wanted to use the exhaust wrap thingy. Not true. You are a poser if you crave having folks look at you because you did something cosmetic that you think will impress them so you can delude yourself into thinking they think you are cool. That's the opposite of building something cool because you want it that way.
I want my bike to be different. For me. I want yours to be different, too. Just because we want our bikes to not be the same as everyone else's does not make either one of us posers.
Until convinced otherwise, though, I have difficulty warming up to the idea of putting clothing on an exhaust header.
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