04-02-2018, 11:05 PM
After reading VLJs narrative, I've come to realize the reason I've never recognized character in a motorcycle is I just can't think of motorcycle characteristics in those terms. His description if full of human traits assigned to a mechanical object, while I just see mechanical objects as mechanical objects. The only motorcycle I have ever nick named, my ST (nickname STarship), is even named after another mechanical object, instead of a person (such as VLJ's Monica). After all these years it's starting to make sense to me now.
Like Cormanus alluded to though, seems to me the bikes most likely assigned charachter status (like my son's Ducati) are the ones least likely to bring you back home from a ride.
Like Cormanus alluded to though, seems to me the bikes most likely assigned charachter status (like my son's Ducati) are the ones least likely to bring you back home from a ride.