Sweet Romance

For me motorcycles are unique in that they embody everything that is right about design, form, function and emotion. My first bike was a 2002 Pulsar 180, it's purchase was one of the most significant milestones in my life. It cemented my interest in motorcycles. Few products by their very nature so strongly connect form with function. Simplicity, power, visibile innovation, exposed structure; these are the things that interest me still. It demands a delicate sense of balance between power, control, and rider, with a style that seems to nearly emerge from these relationships. At the center is the human who must skillfully guide and control the experience.

No matter how long you have had your bike with you, there are those few times when you never knew how; but both you and your bike just seem to push your boundaries just that much further, miniscule as it may seem to the commom world; but within you and your heart you now know that you are much better at it than before; not because you beat someone on the ride; but because you know that the next time you go out with the bike; there's a whole new aspect of it that's waiting to hit you in the face... not as a truck thundering at you but more as a train ready to run you down and kill you (if that's what it takes) if you make the slightest mistake.

All these thoughts make no sense at all when thought about now sittin' at the table, but when you are out on the bike, even for the same daily commute, its frugal thoughts like this that make that commute worthwhile.

Contributed by Lucifer