Always in motion, the future is.
No one knows better than Master Yoda about such things, except maybe me. And I've decided that, since that future and, honestly, this bike's future is somewhat an unknown, I'm just gonna carry on, not look at that crazy thousand pound gorilla elephant creature in the room, and just talk about building a bike. Life will always have challenges, a riposte and repartee, that's how it goes. It's part of the duel. So regardless of what's needed to be done, there's a bike to build.
And to talk about here. So there.
Despite being somewhat limited on what I can spend for the build this week, I think I need to go ahead and get some turn signals coming my way. Since the rear sets arrived, I think there's not going to be very many parts arriving with that same fanfare and adoration. Now, it's just things I need and when they get here, I'll bolt 'em on.
Still, that one side of the bike, with the pegs mounted, look soooo much more like a bike. Silly, but the things needed to still get fixed up or tightened down are getting fewer by my count. And more than that, it feels like working on a motorcycle now. Which is a strange sounding thing, I will concede. Maybe it's more like it's in a category of 'maintenance' or 'adjusting' a motorcycle vs. constructing one. Which again, I know I've not actually constructed one as much as I've changed to tweaked, so I can't take credit for inventing a wheel or a microwave oven here. I'm just looking at something, figuring out how to change or alter.
It's also one of the cool parts of owning stuff, or vehicles, for me. (No, I think I'm actually like this with everything I own.) It's the way I look at things. How something sits or lays or looks, to my eye. Maybe it's a 'design' thing, and maybe it sounds good to phrase it that way for the dinner parties and such. But I think it's just my wanting to clean up or tweak -just slightly- so it's more like how I would have done it.
Perhaps it's a little like when someone gets a new object, the first thing they want top do is take it apart. See what makes it tick. Or tock. I do that, too. Sometimes. With cars, I usually want to remove many of the emblems and badges because it distracts from the lines of a car. While living in Chicago, I used to refuse to mount a front license plate because it ruined the look of my various cars from the front. Yes, legally you had to have one, but I was never ticketed for it. The wife was once, but actually got out of it once she explained the husband lunacy and reasoning for it. (though was instructed to tell her husband to remedy it). I usually wont use a license plate frame; why advertise the dealership I bought it from further? And for free. A good buying experience got the word of mouth endorsement, which is miles better anyway.
Just to continue down this rabbit hole even further, warning labels go. Stickers go. Clean lines, remember. Simplicity. But to get back to the point I was going to make before being rudely interrupted by my own sidebar, all the other motorcycle I've owned in the past, while I've done simple things to achieve said simplicity of lines, they were mostly nice design choices already. Which is, I'm sure, why I was drawn to them in the first place. Heck, even the MV Agusta F4 - my pride and joy- needed some reflectors and stickers removed.
I've done the same thing to this bike, but went so much further. The point of all this? This bike is now so far beyond what it was when I bought it- so different - that I am, in a way, creating something from scratch or from thin air. Not really, of course, but that design approach of simplicity was at the forefront of this build from the very beginning. And continues to be.
So back to the turn signals. There are very small and nondescript ,while maintaining a subtle theme.
What a surprise there.
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