BMR Can motorcycles have soul?

[activpop]

Sort of fitting following the Still in Love thread. Yes, I pat my bikes and talk to them, I know they have soul...they're Guzzis. I wish he did this video on his Griso though. I would like to ride that Kawasaki because of all the great press on it, but IDK if I would ever be truly happy with one. I've only ever owned twins and singles.

 

[docc]

I asked mySport what she thought of this "soul" business. We had quite a session over the matter and agreed to come back to it along the creeks and over the ridges with her song echoing off the bluffs and streams.

      

[audiomick]

In the video, he said something about "the bike talks to me".

I know what he means. I've had that with motorcycles, and also with musical instruments, even instruments that I can't play. I pick them up, and they want to be played. Same with bikes, you see them, touch them, and they say "when can we go for a ride?". I don't know if that is really "soul", or my subjective impression, but some things, when they are really good, do seem to live.

 

PS: @activpop I have no doubt at all that the Kawasaki is a very fine motorcycle. I would be very tempted by it, but I have decided to stick to bikes with shaft drive.

[activpop]

4 hours ago, docc said:

I asked mySport what she thought of this "soul" business. We had quite a session over the matter and agreed to come back to it along the creeks and over the ridges with her song echoing off the bluffs and streams.

      

I hope to come back to it next week, when the rains stop, sun comes out and temps climb.  Coppa is inside for the rainy season. It likes warm and dry, so it will be Griso time. Winter isn't over yet.

[po18guy]

To have a soul is to be imperfect. Imperfection, either in revulsion towards it or in attraction to it, inspires passion. Perfect bikes never change - but we do -  and thus they may not always inspire. Give me something with flaws to accomodate; with flaws to work around and that will keep me engaged. 

[motortouring]

Many examples of mutual understanding between me and my California 2. Some years ago coming back from the south of Germany, the right cilinder started to rattle. Idle speed dropped, engine stalled very often. As we (Cali and I) were alone, we took it on our own speed and it said to me to find the engine speed that had the lowest rattle, use as little as possible acceleration and it would try to make it the last 250km. "It hurts, but don't make it hurt more". We made it.

Over 200.000km then you hear and see all that you expect and especially what you don't expect.

It also sounds a bit like a marriage🙈 

[activpop]

@audiomickI will probably check one out in the future just for kicks. I have ridden many miles on my 3 chain bikes, so it is possible.  Without a doubt, the shaftdrive is sweetest.

Edited 4 hours ago by activpop

[alannn]

Out of respect for science, I prefer to consider the character (  ) of my V11 as artificial intelligence rather than soul.

Edited 1 hour ago by alannn