Sunday, April 09, 2006

I understand LOVE

For a long time I couldn't understand why people could just flip backwards just because they have fallen in love with a person. They change ideas, the corner stones around which their lives are built are moved or worse demolished...They move heaven & Earth just for tryin to agree upon others ideals & you probably would know the stuff that comes next....
I have just found out why it happens and its so weird because I found it out by fallin in love ... I just fellin love wid an ANTIQUE BIKE if i may call it an antique or a derelict doesn't matter I just fell in love (looks don't matter right)...Its an Enfield Explorer not its macho sibling the Bullet...Before driving that bike i quite couldn't understand people drivin antique cars and people changin for women....Now I can proclaim to the world I DO.... I REALLY DO....Its just that they have that character whatever it is that the others don't....
The bike has a remaarkable character if you have watched the movie Gone in 60 seconds circa 2000 you would understand by what i mean by cajoling the bike to move....( No don't do this to me ..... no start .....start....) You would have to cajole her to move.... And when you are off you cannot be in a state of chutzpah that you have got her goin she would throw tantrums at you at the most inappropriate time....For example when you are pullin a calculated risk overatakin manoeuvre you cannot assume that she would shift seamlessly from gear to gear....The clutch would start to slip , the carbs will start sputterin for air or fuel as the mood maybe....When you try to kick the starter up without that specific touch she will start throwin up petrol in oodles all you have to do to remedy the cause is to cajole her to start...Once she has started no more throwin up she would be able to hold her drink...Will she go around corners ?? ya she will but you have to know an old bike means not so structurally strong as the presnt day bikes ,means she will flex... Its gratifyin that she is flexin everythin for you and that she might buckle or bend over just for you.....You will havwe to care for her, you can let her in the shine or in the rain for too long a time.... You will have to care for her like a baby or your girlfriend...The one main thing is that bike had never let me down when i had needed her the most she had always been ther for me....
So what is that that makes me ride around the town in a rickety rackety bike its that feelin that she's gotta mind of her own and will not like it bein bossed around...The other bikes are more disconnected ,the down to earth feelin that this bike has is completely missed.... You can almost do anything wid them and they would oblige just like a dunderhead who wouldn't want to try anything new....But i tell you guys this girl i.e. is if i can call her a girl has a mind of her own....She will do things you never thought you could given the right amount of cajolin...After all that I have told you you might have decided that nothing can be done wid this bike but believe me you can pop wheelies (the capacity of the engine being a mere 50cc for those its got the same capacity as that off a TVS 50 try poppin a wheelie wid that)...
This bike is more of a mistress than a wife she will do wicked things, throw tantrums you could never imagine and the worst she could ditch you just about anytime but that streak of character that unpredictability that has me on my knees....And I don't feel bad about it ....

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