04-26-2017, 01:06 AM
As of very recently I drive a silver Honda Ridgeline. Before, for 15 years, it was a silver Acura MDX, and ride a black CB1100. Very characterless machines, according to many. Maybe I'm a bland, characterless type of individual...
But (in my best Jules Winnfield voice) that's not the truth. The truth is that together with what I do to them to make them mine, I am the character those machines have. And blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
IMNSHO, Retsel's got it...
But (in my best Jules Winnfield voice) that's not the truth. The truth is that together with what I do to them to make them mine, I am the character those machines have. And blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
IMNSHO, Retsel's got it...
(04-19-2017, 12:05 PM)Retsel_imp Wrote: I don't know. But to me any character in a motorcycle is given by the people that ride them. A motorcycle, to me, has no character when it comes off the factory floor. It is the owner of the inanimate object, be it motorcycle, auto, aircraft, boat or whatever that gives it character. With the single exception of Christine. That was one mean Plymouth Fury with attitude and loads of "character"! So, to me an old bike with lots of miles and multiple owners, each making their own modifications and adding to the character, has much more " character" than any new one off the assembly line.
This is my favorite definition of "character".
The aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
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