獅王動力 wrote:
版大，不會你就是～葉...(恕刪)
In today’s information super highway age of society I think its super easy to become a Hardcore Biker. When I was growing up it took an act of god for me to gain the knowledge that I desired about motorcycles. Things I wanted to know and do had to be “Earned”. When I was 16 years old my second bike was a 1976 FLH that had the complete top off and I had no idea how to put it back together. I took it to a shop called “The Chopper Place” to see if they could help me get it back together. Now these were “outlaws” that had zero time for some punk kid that didn’t have any money. After about 15 minutes of mean looks and condescending gestures. I loaded my bike up and took it down the street to and old school HD mechanic named Norm Keepers. Now Norm wasn’t exactly a friendly type of dude, but I think he sensed my enthusiasm about getting my bike running. He told me that as long as I was willing to listen and work hard? He would help me get it going. That I did! I worked with him every day after school till it was done. The bike ran like a top and I think I gained Norm’s respect. I also gained knowledge of how to RR a top end of a Harley. I will never forget jumping on that fucker for a blast down the freeway. I looked at the ground racing beneath me and felt like I was doing a million miles per hour. I had that bike for 10 years.
The point of this story is that times have changed. People no longer have to earn the rights to be a “Biker” or a “Wrench”. You can simply login into any number of chopper type of websites and learn the entire lingo to sound like you know what you are doing without actually doing it. The only sweat and hard work is time in front of a computer screen.
All of these websites have at least 2 or 3 “Experts” that are the foremost authorities of everything “Biker”. They have spent thousands of hours flexing their vast digital knowledge at “Newbie’s” that login on to the sites that they patrol. Do these badass’s actually ride? Do they work on bikes? I wouldn’t know, but they sure sound like they do. They have become “Bikers” in this new digital era. They earned it on a keyboard with post counts in the tens of thousands, and not with the twist of a wrench. This all leads me to think someday we will all not ride at all. We will probably not even have bikes. This whole scene will become a gigantic game of Dungeons and Dragons with choppers. Everyone will craft the motorcycle of there dreams digitally and the knowledge to go with it. We will all ride to Sturgis from every corner of the globe on our Pentium Processors. We will send each other a round of digital beers and the Online Broken Spoke Saloon. Nobody will ever trailer their bikes again!
I really hope this Internet shXt never gets that out of hand. Next time you’re at a shop or the dealer, and you see a guy that works there with grease on his hands? Go up to him and ask him what he’s working on, or what kind of exhaust he recommends for your bike? Just strike up a real face-to-face conversation. You might just learn something, and you might just earn the respect of somebody that didn’t get his talent off the Internet.
Jesse James - CEO West Coast Choppers / A.S.S. - Austin Speed Shop .
http://www.sandiegocustoms.com/
中文翻譯:
http://nextmobriot.com/core/blsho.php?aps=34&blp=3&bltim=1299163229&bltimsty=3
獅王動力 wrote:
版大，不會你就是～葉...(恕刪)
愛戀古典的小寶哥 wrote:
冠希哥，有夢最美，懷...(恕刪)
看來寶哥年紀和我相當,我和您的成長史真像.
不過我年輕時是想擁有四輪跑車,因為經歷過公司高額股票獎金, 也曾曾擁有過幾部好車,錢花在買車上義無反顧, 到現在40幾歲了反而覺得年少輕狂太不會想了,錢沒存到幾毛錢,小孩要養,家庭要顧.
現在反而對錢斤斤計較,捨不得花了,想留給小孩讀書用.哈哈
卻把要再換汽車的錢跑去買了一台國產200cc的大羊. 但這樣反而覺得上班通勤時間更悠閒了.
40歲人的想法跟樓主一定不一樣,我倒覺得他有理想很不錯,他也講了,他父母不會幫他出錢買哈雷.
年輕人就是要有目標才有拼勁,才會比別人更用功.什麼都容易得到,例如買一台150cc野狼就滿足了?買到後又想其他的車,錢浪費了,也得不到快感呀~
我欣賞有拼勁的年輕人,就個人的生涯來看,我十幾歲對車的夢想都達到了,當時家中長輩也不以為意,認為我胡思亂想不切實際,但真的, 有理想加上自己的努力,只是一台哈雷而已,有什麼困難的?何況他才十幾二十歲,來日方長著咧~
我現在最想的也是哈雷,但.....明年再說,哈哈~
kohonen wrote:
等你哈雷開箱搂......(恕刪)
我不會騎重機(沒騎過打檔車)，我只是開雙B！
像樓主這樣年紀的小孩子本來就會有些不實際的夢想，難道你沒年輕過？
而且看他回文彬彬有禮，就算慢慢存買一台不切實際的重機也沒什麼，怎樣也比一堆小屁孩改車吵死人又亂胚來得好太多；他現在這個年紀跟他講什麼存錢補貼家用、體諒父母辛勞、考慮現實有的沒的未免也太好笑，除非低收入戶，不然一般中產階級的小孩子願意靠自己存錢買東西都值得鼓勵，只要不是戕害身心的東西就好。年輕人就是靠夢想跟體力成就事業，年輕時就沒有夢想目標，長大後的成就大概也是一般；啥米等到幾歲以後有餘裕再來說...有的沒的，又不是幾千萬的法拉利，他有本事存到錢幾歲買都可以都合理，沒本事存到就再加油努力一點先乾瞪眼，不然你以為20幾歲開敞篷車拉風，到60歲禿頭開敞篷車還會拉風嗎？
我前年想買台小忍者來練習學騎打檔車，反正也沒多少錢，但因為家人認為危險反對而作罷，結果去年股市賠了上千萬，要是前年有買有花掉也算少賠20幾萬；存下來的錢不是你的，有花掉讓你爽過的錢才是你的，有些有錢人存了好幾十億對自己摳得要死，開破車吃路邊攤，這也無可厚非沒什麼，這是他的自由，但他不是有錢人，他只是個守財奴而已；而有些有錢人卻會把錢花在提升他的生活品質上享受人生，這才是真正的有錢人！
(我個人比較注意產品實際功能跟表現,品牌這種東西是行銷下的美麗外衣,通常我是不予以理會的,知道參考...就好)
我覺得日系嬉皮會是另一個讓你更快達到夢想的捷徑,各廠牌都有入門跟公升級以上的CRUISER
我個人是最欣賞 Suzuki M109R 1800cc超暴力車款(擁有全球最大直徑的汽缸)
Y牌的 Warrior 1700 也很有感覺... 這是較為運動感的美式 - HD只有V-ROD是屬於這種風格
排氣量雖大但到頂就大概就6,70萬左右(我的印象,最近價格不知是否又有漲價? )
我對哈雷沒有太大興趣,是因為一樣價格在日系車可以買到更好,更威,更悍的車種
品質跟工藝,應該說是過之而無不及...而二手車價 等你能考駕照時 入門的紅牌美式不到30萬即可入手
Cruiser 是一種騎車的態度跟風格 勿只拘泥於屁股下的機器
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