Hi , Dan. I do not know how the bike got damaged, and who did it, but if so-,Theodore would be a bad assumption i guess.Maybe the bike was dropped in the garage?.....very well possible,given the fact that the restoration was a repair, according to the youtube clip related mechanic.If a bike falls on its side in a garage due to bad handling, the most probable thing that will happen,is that the 'notch'?on the underplate of the forks breaks or bends away giving way to the fork to make a bend in the tank. This is very common. These static tank slappers make very nasty bends in the side of the tank. But they are repaired very easely these days.Works with a sort of magnetron probe.Even the paint is kept solid during this proces.
And this line of reasoning does fit the explanation of the mechanic in the clip, saved the 'patine' of the paint, and is a repair; not a restoration, furthermore during the restoration and the reassembly the tanks emblems?, were reversed, as left is right and right is left, the wing points in the wrong direction both ways. This was not so on the bike in the years the book was written. What took my attention the most, was that the mechanic states that he is actually at his shop or repair, but during the making of the footage he clearly avoids making footage of the surrounding area. I think i posted these clips long ago, but maybe it was on another forum. They are on y/tube for some time now. Adrie 2017-08-06 9:59 GMT+02:00 Dan Glover <[email protected]>: > Saddlebags. I think he was talking saddlebags. I don't think that > particular bike came standard with saddlebags so Robert Pirsig > probably invented a way to attach them what with given the amount of > traveling he did. And I didn't know his son crashed the bike. Was that > Chris who did so? > > On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 2:33 AM, Adrie Kintziger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, Dan, yeah,; apparently he is actually showing the bolts under the > saddle > > that were added to catch the frame of the white boxes aside. > > I do not know the American name for that part. > > Adrie > > > > 2017-08-06 3:00 GMT+02:00 Dan Glover <[email protected]>: > > > >> Ha! That's awesome Adrie! > >> > >> On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Adrie Kintziger <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC4K4EtJvS0 > >> > > >> > 2 clips. > >> > > >> > 2017-08-01 6:26 GMT+02:00 Dan Glover <[email protected]>: > >> > > >> >> So I'm reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell which is such a great > >> >> book and while the journalist is downstairs partying the bad chick > >> >> searches her room looking for a damning document on a doomed nuclear > >> >> reactor and what does she find but a copy of Zen and the Art of > >> >> Motorcycle Maintenance lurking in her bag! Now yes this particular > >> >> vignette is set in 1975 and the book was kind of hot back then but > >> >> still I thought it was cool enough to share. > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> http://www.danglover.com > >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list > >> >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > >> >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > >> >> Archives: > >> >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > >> >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > parser > >> > Moq_Discuss mailing list > >> > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > >> > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > >> > Archives: > >> > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > >> > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> http://www.danglover.com > >> Moq_Discuss mailing list > >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > >> Archives: > >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > parser > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > > > > -- > http://www.danglover.com > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > -- parser Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
