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New Member Introductions / Re: Noob to this forum
« on: March 09, 2011, 01:00:08 AM »
kaceyk2,
Crazy tale about almost being Canadian, EH? I'll have to look up a photo of Niagara Falls frozen! I've been there once, it's a total tourist trap now. I was 20yrs and in a chevette full of friends. We couldn't afford to park, luckily there was slow moving traffic. So we took turns jumping out and running to the rail to take a peek. Parking fair would have dented the gin fund.
The turning fall leaves are incredible on the east coast, fall days may get a little chilled, but the best biking weather.
I see in your profile 'bike polisher'. Do you clean and detail bikes professionally? Or buff and polish aluminum forks,covers? I own and operate an auto detailing business. Motorcycles only account for a small %. I wetsand and buff the parts on my bikes, I enjoy that very much. People think it's crazy spending 1 to 2 hours on bench polishing an aluminum carburetor bowl! Thirty year old aluminum parts that have been in Nova Scotia are in rough shape. The roads are heavily salted in the winter plus the salty air in all seasons. Most old aluminum parts are in need of a 600/1000/1500/2500/3000 grit wetsand before a high speed compounding. People here have no clue how much work is involved. They can stick to their financed, midlife crisis, overchromed cruisers. Do you know them too? They have the Harley's, Vulcan's or any type of candy-looking cruiser and spend more time putting their clothing together, to look the part, then doing any maintenance on the actual bike. They'll spot you on an older bike and talk to you for an hour about their brother that had a moped in the '60's. You're just trying to get back on the road after a quick fill up and oil check. There are a ton of those fellas and their matching leather wives on the road over here. They gather at coffee shops and talk all night.Good resale though, on their low km bike!
Hopefully you can relate, otherwise, I might just be taken as a bitter biker that would like to see more appreciation for the older stuff!
-Trent
Crazy tale about almost being Canadian, EH? I'll have to look up a photo of Niagara Falls frozen! I've been there once, it's a total tourist trap now. I was 20yrs and in a chevette full of friends. We couldn't afford to park, luckily there was slow moving traffic. So we took turns jumping out and running to the rail to take a peek. Parking fair would have dented the gin fund.
The turning fall leaves are incredible on the east coast, fall days may get a little chilled, but the best biking weather.
I see in your profile 'bike polisher'. Do you clean and detail bikes professionally? Or buff and polish aluminum forks,covers? I own and operate an auto detailing business. Motorcycles only account for a small %. I wetsand and buff the parts on my bikes, I enjoy that very much. People think it's crazy spending 1 to 2 hours on bench polishing an aluminum carburetor bowl! Thirty year old aluminum parts that have been in Nova Scotia are in rough shape. The roads are heavily salted in the winter plus the salty air in all seasons. Most old aluminum parts are in need of a 600/1000/1500/2500/3000 grit wetsand before a high speed compounding. People here have no clue how much work is involved. They can stick to their financed, midlife crisis, overchromed cruisers. Do you know them too? They have the Harley's, Vulcan's or any type of candy-looking cruiser and spend more time putting their clothing together, to look the part, then doing any maintenance on the actual bike. They'll spot you on an older bike and talk to you for an hour about their brother that had a moped in the '60's. You're just trying to get back on the road after a quick fill up and oil check. There are a ton of those fellas and their matching leather wives on the road over here. They gather at coffee shops and talk all night.Good resale though, on their low km bike!
Hopefully you can relate, otherwise, I might just be taken as a bitter biker that would like to see more appreciation for the older stuff!
-Trent