Hi Adrie, The video said how his son crashed the bike some thirty five years ago and then it was put in a barn for storage. Didn't say which son so I assumed it must've been Chris. Never heard that before. Oh and I did not notice the emblems reversed. Nice catch.
On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Adrie Kintziger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! 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