"No, I don't thank you for the fish at all" (notindetroit)
09/10/2015 at 22:39 • Filed to: None
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"No, I don't thank you for the fish at all" (notindetroit)
09/10/2015 at 22:39 • Filed to: None | 0
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This was something I’ve been working on for a while. I’ve been carefully writing it for a few weeks now but the longer it’s gone on the less I fell in love with it, the more effort I was starting to put into it than it was worth, and now Kinja has totally chewed it up and spit it out and that completely destroyed any compulsion I have to finish it for free. If I had finished it yeah sure it wouldn’t been another thing to add to a portfolio but I can always write a spec piece to a magazine if I needed that. As it stands you really do need to pay me to finish it - I’ve run out of the energy to pull it all back together just to see it buried under three pages in 15 minutes with maybe 34 views. But not enough to just delete it and walk away, so I’m just going to share it now, incomplete, Kinja’d and all.
tl;dr - after two years of motorcycle riding I think it’s boring and I just want to drive a car now.
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
09/10/2015 at 22:59 |
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This is part of why I’m just going to refresh my old nighthawk instead of “upgrade”. There is a certain joy to the act of making it work. There is a satisfaction and damn near smugness to bombing through the forest hills and byways and keeping up with the harleys and squids on something older than I am. And even when I’m just putzing around town, it never fights me, the weight is low, and the proportions and ergonomics are perfect. I want more bikes like it......and I already have one.
This winter I am going to redo the entire front end, do a full tune-up and maintenance job on it (shaft drive FTW, I do my lube change this winter and I’m good for the season!) and respray it and possibly ge a new seat because I can. If it was just something I hopped on and rode once a week? I wouldn’t enjoy it as much. But really, if it is a passion, then shouldn’t your joy stem from any number of aspects to it? Not just what you’re told to like, but what you actually like. Similar to how you have drag racers, drifters, rally fans, road racers, and show car builders, I think there is more than one motorcyclist out there. I hope lanesplitter helps break the mold of the cruiser vs. carver mentality.
Noah - Now with more boost.
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
09/10/2015 at 23:45 |
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Make sure to post good reads in the middle of the day, during the work week! :) That’s digital marketing 101! Share this again tomorrow afternoon (or better yet, re format and re upload). Late night oppo is more “superficial” in nature (short posts about silly shit).
bob and john
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
09/10/2015 at 23:56 |
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its less of a problem of the bike being boring and you just being in a boring place....(my drunk-ass thoughts)
RallyWrench
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
09/11/2015 at 00:11 |
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This is good, man. Too bad kinja is too borked for you to bring it to completion.
CRider
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
09/11/2015 at 04:29 |
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Riding the 2 wheeled equivalent of a Cadillac XTS on a road like that is hardly going to get your blood pumping. I’d fall asleep on that bike, on that road too.
yamahog
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
09/11/2015 at 09:13 |
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No offense but either there were some serious changes between 2005 and 2009 (I know the suspension was cheapened, but IIRC that’s about it) or maybe some major differences in our setups, but I’m 5’3” and have zero problems maneuvering my FZ6, even full of gas. Dad made me practice picking it up over and over anyway though, I can do it in about 3 seconds flat if I need to.
I do share your disinterest in boring public roads, though, and it’s also impacted my attitude toward riding and my current bike. When I was living on the west coast I could take a five hour canyon/coastline ride every Saturday, but now I do track days to get the same enjoyment and so I’m thinking of selling the FZ6 to get a better track bike. In California, being able to lanesplit year-round made riding to work great, but now my commute is barely 8 miles of boring, poorly paved metro Detroit grid, so riding to work is not really worth the time it takes me to change from riding gear to business casual, and I can only do it rationally for half the year.