04-26-2016, 12:49 PM
(04-26-2016, 12:12 PM)Roper_imp Wrote: Yep. I had it narrowed down to a lightly used XR1200, the new Bonnie 1200, and a CB1100. When I finally test rode the Honda, I bought it that day. And I had enough money left for other...um..."needed stuff." (Is that a better word than "farkles"?)
Not to me, it isn't! ;-)
I've been around "farkles" since the day I joined ADVrider twelve years ago when I bought my BMW 1200GS. I bet they had been using it for 25 years by then.
On that site, and in 99.9999999% of it use elsewhere, by either the bike owner or admirer, it has absolutely no perjorative context. It generally means, functional, nice to look at, and costing more than it should. The essence of the Touratech catalog.
I was disappointed that it created such a ruckus here. Seems it important for some folks have to share their dislike for words that don't bother the vast majority (I'll go with 99.999999% again) of the people that are hearing the words used to describe what they have done to their bikes.
I think they must be living somewhere that people describe their bike changes as groovy or far out, and they are quite content with that.
I'll go with the "rest" of the universe on this one.
Farkle on!!!
