Transition
#18
Rennlist Member
Many jump in with a new ride to " slide down the slippery slope" of $$$$ mods .... kudos for crawling up that same slippery slope, and reversing some mods to achieve a tasteful result!
#19
Rennlist Member
I see it so often in motorcycle circles. You wouldn't believe the money spent percentage-wise compared to the cost of buying the actual motorcycle. My theory that I get to chuckle about and based on years of monitoring the forums is, they bling/farkle up their motorcycle and when there is nothing left to buy, they sell it and start all over again with the next motorcycle. There is nothing wrong with that, but it tells me that it is more about buying toys than about motorcycling to them. When I finish setting up my motorcycle the way I want it, I hang onto it and go and see places.
Nothing wrong with mods; I tend to go with useful ones like my on-board voltmeter...not much of a mod really, but damn useful. On the other end of the spectrum, I would see little point to installing PSS-10s on my car for street use and then not even make use of the adjustments. My OEM suspension pulls some damn good laterals on the on-ramps to the highway.
* I remember the kids coming to the handgun range with fancy smancy guns and not being able to hit the broadside of a barn. As the Duke put it in one of his movies "too much gun". LOL