Perhaps I shouldn't have stuck my nose into the conversation, as it was, anyway. I don't even ride a roadster. I have one, but it is under a pile of junk in the barn and when I win the lottery, I will have the money to get it back on the road. I was perhaps forced to mistakenly jump into the thread by my love for antique vehicles. When I was growning up...my first car was a 31 Ford pickup. I had several models actually,at one point of another, but this was back in the 60's and all my friends were building rods from the old cars. I just wasn't able to take one of my cars and "Muck" it up and throw a huge motor into it. Seemed a sacriledge. All my close friends shared this theory and we all drove what we could get, from the 20s and 30s. Made us all a bit of an "outsider"...but we still got to school and back, in the 27 Caddie, a 32 Chrysler my Ford and even for a while, a 23 Rolls. Girls didn't mide it either, to be honest. Somehow, back then, it just didn't seem too naughty to fool with a 55 Belaire or 59 Corvette, or a 63 Beetle, but something out of the 30s, that had survived already for 40 years untouched, was out of bounds. I helped with a couple of projects that friends worked on, one of them a 32 Chevy, he put a 289 v8 in, but I just couldn't do such a thing, myself. Made me sad to think it would never be able to be put back to the way it was.
When I got my Commando, it was new. I changed a lot of things too and never felt funny about it. It wasn't an antique. There were lots of aftermarket things to be bought and slapped on. It hadn't survived years on the road and somehow avoided the junkyard , yet. Today, I would think twice before doing something to one of the bikes I am lucky enough to still own, that would really change it to the point of it not being able to be returned to it 's original state by some future owner. Paint and mechanical/safety improvements and pieces that can be removed and replaced, aside. Guess, I'm trying to think of those who come after. Some changes just can't be reversed.
My comments about the seat should then be put into the context of how I learned to see things as a teenager. May be that I'm a bit old-fachioned in the way I see things. Maybe I live in the past.... Quess it was hard for me to see that someone else's way of looking at things might be different than mine. You are though, indeed welcome to your way of looking at things...that's what you paid for, the right to do what you want with it. Just was hard for me to see it and not stick my 2 cents worth in. Consider my pennies retracted though...ride safe! :wink:
For what it's worth...one of my buddies wrote a book about our adventures and our cars, and one of my cars is pictured on the cover....I got pulled over a couple times with that truck...it WAS legally registered though.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/09...104-6807091-8504715?n=507846&s=books&v=glance