Primum Not Nocere

Primum Non Nocere.  "First, job no harm."

This is the primal guiding regulation of medicine.  It should last the same for anyone that would lay a wrench on a motorbike every bit well.

The two-wheel community is awash amongst "builders" together with "customizers" churning out choppers, cafe racers, brat bikes, bobbers, rat bikes, scramblers, streetfighters together with their fifty-fifty to a greater extent than hybridized offspring, brat scramblers, rat bobbers, cafe fighters, rat brats together with scrambled chopper racers.  Every bobo amongst a shed together with a hacksaw is trying to job his or her "dream ride" together with ending upward generally amongst Frankenstein.

Don't larn me wrong, I wing the DIY flag to a greater extent than proudly than rednecks inwards a jacked-up truck job the Stars 'N Bars, but I've also come upward to convey that in that location are sure as shooting things the motorbike factories together with all their engineers amongst fancy degrees know meliorate than I.  In my express wisdom, I stimulate got croak detest to mess amongst these things.

If nosotros convey the premise that a motorbike is a vehicle first, together with so in that location are a few tasks it must last able to perform together with inwards a meliorate fashion than say, a 1987 Yugo amongst 200K.  First it must go.  Second it must stop.  Third it must turn.

Any modifications inwards either of the 3 areas should entirely seek to improve upon the foundation position past times the factory.  Many times this is non possible, so possibly it's meliorate to larn out it lonely (do no harm)?

In the "See Me, Hear Me" mentality possessed past times so many motorbike enthusiasts what would look to last mutual feel is thrown out the window.  It's a example of part fucked over past times a warped feel of form.  Go ahead together with stretch the front end or bring upward of that bike until it's null to a greater extent than than a John Holmes sized penis extension.  Take perfectly proficient working interruption together with larn inwards stiff so it pounds y'all into hemorrhoids, impotence together with herniated discs.  Remove one-half of your front end brake organization so that people larn a meliorate await at your super shiny chrome rims.  Cut, hack, grind, chop, bolt on, convey off, job whatever it takes to brand us experience similar individuals.  Idiots, but individuals!

Obviously it's your bike together with you're withal gratis plenty to job what y'all desire to job amongst it, but earlier nosotros selection upward that wrench, torch or hacksaw, possibly nosotros should inquire ourselves, "Why?".

So y'all convey a motorbike amongst most 200 horsepower, capable of 200 miles per hour, install a floppy extended swingarm so it needs a rails to plough roughly together with withdraw 1 of the front end rotors so it immediately has one-half the stopping power?  Seems similar a proficient sentiment to me. 

Seriously? I tin strength out curvature those fork tubes amongst only the ability of my mind.  One pothole together with y'all are headed to the hospital.  The front end brake provides 75% of the stopping ability of a motorcycle, so let's non install one.  Brilliant.

So y'all took off technologically advanced daze absorbers together with replaced them amongst enterprise struts, then, it was so uncomfortable y'all had to add together a daze absorber to your seat?  It's that variety of forwards thinking that got America to where it is today.

No fenders to proceed H2O together with rocks from spraying y'all front end together with dorsum together with null to proceed your testicles from dragging on the bring upward tire if god foreclose y'all slide dorsum off the Karen Carpenter sparse seat.  Rock on man!

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