Meditative riding, preferences and hondas

[nakkers]

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I can’t help myself. I instantly fall in love with the looks a bike before even riding it. The look, the sound, the feel. It’s interactive art. Then I ride it and enjoy the heck out of it. It makes me feel great. The warts are exposed and I’m compelled to make changes.

The quick and easy, exhaust, intake, flash/tune. When my kids’ piss me off, I rationalize spending their university fund on suspension, lighting, seat, luggage etc.

Just as it’s perfected, something else catches my eye and I’m off to the next. It’s my vice. It’s my disease. I love it and wouldn’t change it for the world.

Oh! And I enjoy doing most of the service and mods myself. Quality time in the garage, during rainy days or the off season.

While my wife sends me reels, I’m on market place and meta is feeding me links to things I never knew I needed for said bike of the week.

For easy and effortless, there is always the cage. No gear, no consideration needed for the weather. Practically drives itself in comfort.

 

[adri]

I think you nailed it - and also how I would define "soul" - the sum being greater than its parts and the feeling of joy it brings from riding it. Maybe even just looking at it or sitting on it. And then looking at it again as you walk away after parking it.



Woah, I may have to take back my thumbs up. Have you never driven a Miata?

LOL. Ok, you got me. I've never driven a Miata. I'm a bike guy through and through. It just seemed like the kind of thing I can see myself taking with the dog beside me if my body is too broken to ride.

Re: Soul, I see it kind of parallel to character - If you put me on the bike blindfolded twenty years from now, would I still know exactly what it was just by how unique the bike feels?

My Moto Guzzi V7 II, Sportster Iron 1200 (sold), V-Rod (sold)... put me on one in twenty years with a blind fold on and I'll know exactly what I'm on. They're unmistakeable. It's not just the motors, the way they handle, the frame, the brakes, the suspension (the Harleys scored very low on a couple of these lol)

Can I say the same about my Bonneville T120? Nope. By comparison my T120 is probably overall the best of the bikes I mentioned and the easiest to ride and live with long term (maybe tied with the V7). But it's completely soulless. Great motorcycle, don't get me wrong, I love my T120. It's an easy to own does-it-all motorcycle, but it's all the most vanilla, plain jane, 1200cc motorcycle... You'll have fun on a T120. As long as you haven't ridden a V-Rod or an Iron 1200. Then you'll still have fun, only less. That's the cost of Easy.

 

[adri]

I can’t help myself. I instantly fall in love with the looks a bike before even riding it. The look, the sound, the feel. It’s interactive art. Then I ride it and enjoy the heck out of it. It makes me feel great. The warts are exposed and I’m compelled to make changes.

The quick and easy, exhaust, intake, flash/tune. When my kids’ piss me off, I rationalize spending their university fund on suspension, lighting, seat, luggage etc.

Just as it’s perfected, something else catches my eye and I’m off to the next. It’s my vice. It’s my disease. I love it and wouldn’t change it for the world.

Oh! And I enjoy doing most of the service and mods myself. Quality time in the garage, during rainy days or the off season.

While my wife sends me reels, I’m on market place and meta is feeding me links to things I never knew I needed for said bike of the week.

For easy and effortless, there is always the cage. No gear, no consideration needed for the weather. Practically drives itself in comfort.

There's a little @nakkers alive in all of us lol

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