10-18-2014, 11:46 AM
(10-16-2014, 11:35 PM)DGShannon_imp Wrote:(10-16-2014, 08:16 AM)gossman_imp Wrote: I like hamburgers
With, or without, cheese and bacon? If you are not eating them with cheese and bacon then you are doing it all wrong, and can't possibly be enjoying them the way you think you are!
(10-16-2014, 05:41 AM)Rboe_imp Wrote: The funny thing, many of our opinions are based on old machines and were quite valid. Today, much of that experience to form those opinions simply does not apply. E.g. you can't tickle an EFI, you can't just off the fuel valve, no sticky floats to tap loose and very very few kick start bikes left (SR-400 is the only street/civilian bike that I know of, the balance being dirt bikes (and Ural has a back up kick start but do you call it a dual sport or street bike?)
The bike world has moved on, many of us are still sniffing the fumes of its' passing.
It is exactly the same with computers. I started programming back in the days of punch cards, before PC's even existed. Remember so well the day I got my first 10 meg hard drive, and it seemed huge! In those early days, if you even hiccuped too close to your computer, you would crash a drive. Now, I see people running around the office with their laptops open and running, banging them down on a conference room table, etc. and I still cringe! Now, I have terabytes of hard drive space, but I still clean off old files and programs like it was my tiny little 10 meg drive. Critical habits, formed around the old ways, are difficult to let go of.
Funny you should mention that. I also started in the pre-PC era (B.C.?). I got my first bike to commute to my first job, which was operating a giant IBM mainframe. My tastes must have been frozen around that time because I still only ride UJMs and I still work on a huge IBM mainframe. Thankfully, the mainframe no longer uses punch cards and the UJM no longer uses points and carbs
