Noot: Rights of Passage

Rights of Passage

Grinding valves by hand, riveting sprockets, boiling corks, soaking gaskets . . . and changing tires with irons. All soon to be forgotten forms of motorcycle maintenance. To really get into vintage bikes - you must do these things. A ritual. A right of passage. A pain-in-the-ass. Too cheap to buy a tire machine.

8 comments:

aric said...: my boys, 10 & 11, change their own on their dirt bikes, always buy two tubes at a time!! dammit...; Thursday, June 30, 2011
lucky23design said...: It's amazing how much we learn about vintage motorcycle mechanics by being flat ass broke, eh?; Thursday, June 30, 2011
grant said...: mind those fingers.....ouch; Thursday, June 30, 2011
Mish said...: Lucky nailed it there! Raising a family while running vintage iron will sure make you a better wrench.; Thursday, June 30, 2011
Anchor Motorsickle said...: You should be a motivational speaker. You could spout off endless hours of tolerances and shim specs and at the end of the class just have the kids wrestle off a 30 year old tire using only a crescent wrench and some screwdrivers. That will teach them!; Monday, July 04, 2011
CHVRCH said...: ISDE riders can do that along the trail in 3 minutes or less.
A plastic milk carton will help you out like crazy.; Thursday, July 07, 2011
CHVRCH said...: I ment milk crate; Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Noot said...: I know what you meant - It does a body good you know?; Wednesday, July 13, 2011