Where are you on the continuum...

[oldgoat01_imp]

After reading the thread and seeing the video about a slow return to idle, it occurred to me that I would never, ever notice something like that. (Short of the throttle sticking or having a bike where you had to roll off, literally, roll off ). I just tend to assume any new bike has it's own unique sounds (like an old house). After a month or so all the odd clunks, clangs, clicks, etc. register in my brain as normal. From that point forward, unless there is the sound of metal grinding against metal or I look in my mirror and see a part skipping down the road, I admit to being pretty oblivious to the cacophony of the bike. Not trying to offend anyone and it's great to have people hone in on the subtleties so that they can identify a potential problem before I hit it. I'm just not one of those types. So, on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is complete OCD and 10 is completely oblivious/ignorance is bliss, where do you put yourself? I figure I'm around an 8.

[HikerToo_imp]

Since I'm currently an IT person but come from a mechanical back ground, I would be around a 3. I have a sixth sense to detect things that are not quite right...

[the Ferret]

Where is this video?

I like to think I'm pretty astute when picking up on feels and sounds that aren't quite right. Like the sound of the fi was a new sound for me and noticed it right away. Other than that no weird noises or vibrations so far.

[darmahman_imp]

I am about a 3 or 4. My friends would probably say I am a 1 or 2 but I am sticking with 3 or 4.

[Deftquiver_imp]

Lol, I freaked out because the preload on my front forks was about a 1/4 turn off and I could feel it pulling a bit under breaking... I'd say I'm about a 2.

[Scoobynut_imp]

Hi, my name is 5 and I used to be a 3. It's been about five years since I behaved like a 3. I thinking owning a KLR650 for three years was when the breakthrough occurred. I soon realized that if I worried about every little noise that bike made I would lose my mind. It's been a long road to recovery, but I thank Kawasaki for getting me on the right path.

The above is not a KLR650 slam, I actually liked that bike quite a lot for its cheerful tolerance of hard use and its general usefulness and utility, but it did make a wide range of noises that I first thought were weird but later realized were just the nature of the beast.

[oldgoat01_imp]

Lol, I freaked out because the preload on my front forks was about a 1/4 turn off and I could feel it pulling a bit under breaking... I'd say I'm about a 2.

Yeah about a 2, minus 1, I'd say

[CA200_imp]

Since my hearing has failed so much in the last few years I don't know where I am at!

[Charlie Bravo_imp]

I'm pretty good at sussing out noises, vibrations, shakes, rattles & rolls and such. I was a marine engineer on an army tugboat during the 'Nam era, where i also starting riding a motorcycle, and have ridden a bike most of that time since. I also owned a boat for most of my adult life, so I can feel, hear, or otherwise detect signs of something amiss. I'd give myself a 2.5.

[PowerDubs_imp]

I’m a -5 on the awareness factor.

I’m not at all OCD however and not sure that label applies to a scale where the other end is oblivious to mechanical issues.

I make my living every day by being aware, assessing, and doing something about it.

Often for oblivious people.

I’m a fixer- my whole life, whether in what I do for the last decades of my life professionally, or working IT before that, or when I was an Army medic and NREMT.

I figure things out and fix it.

Not OCD though… my garage is plenty disorganized.

I’ve always been perplexed at how people can be oblivious. And by always- I mean on a daily basis.


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