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  • Hmmm. I’ve been known to hit the junk yard for replacements for a Ford LTD, way back in the Oelden Daiz, but a) I’m not sure about trusting second hand parts in a motorcycle, and b) I’d probably be unsuccessful at rewiring it.

    By the Nighthawk, we’d started entering the phase where vehicles were becoming essentially solid-state devices. There was no space, and to do anything serious, you had to basically take the whole thing to pieces; and I’m not mechanically inclined. If I can reach in with my hands, I’m fine, but multi-part disassembly and - more critically - correct reassembly challenges me.

    Also, motorcycles are death machines. At least if a professional works on it, it’s one less thing for me to worry about going wrong on a ride, and taking me out. A sudden loss of power at 65 might not be guaranteed fatal, but I still wouldn’t want to risk it, or something falling off because of my own incompetence putting it back together.










  • I had a Honda Nighthawk 650 once. The perfect bike, for me, if a little underpowered. But it was comfortable to ride, not too heavy, and looked good.

    But it always had electrical problems, and I could never figure them out myself. It would just sporadically have a phase where the starter wouldn’t turn over. I had it in the shop off and on for about 6 years, and finally gave up on it. Never replaced it, didn’t keep up my license, and haven’t ridden in years.

    If I ever do take up riding again (which will be an epic fight with the wife who’s mom was a nurse, and is dead set against me riding motorcycles), I want something in that form factor again. I keep looking at Ducatis.

    Anyway, electrical issues are the worst.