to lock or not to lock
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:38 pm
The title refers not to locking the PCX but locking threads on the forum. I was all geared up to put my 2 cents into the thread titled "No more PCX for me" but found that it had been locked. I read through most of the replies...couldn't find anything particularly objectionable. It was a heated debate but, seems to me, relevant to owners of motor scooters. I understand locking a thread that degenerates to the point where the contributors are spitting nasty epithets at one another eg.:[insert something unpresidential that comes to mind] but....
Still, I can catch the moderator's drift. The debate had wandered wide of the subject onto a path that may have been leading to a sudden steep drop.
Let me just say this about stealable bikes...when I first got my PCX I was worried about it. Now, 4 years on and 3 or 4 drops to the pavement and skids thereupon, I worry much less. Scratches and scuffs and rough and ready patches and repairs have this advantage: They send thieves looking elsewhere. So...maybe the owners of new bikes should take pains to cover the youth and loveliness of their machines. I don't by any means suggest that they crash them or beat them with a hammer...but maybe they can dirty them up a bit and, who knows, get decals that look like scuffs, cracks, and patches. Get creative!
Of course, there are those souls who would not be seen dead on a dirty, scruffy-looking bike and to them I say good luck. Personally I don't give a damn, but then I am an old man and you know what they are like!
Still, I can catch the moderator's drift. The debate had wandered wide of the subject onto a path that may have been leading to a sudden steep drop.
Let me just say this about stealable bikes...when I first got my PCX I was worried about it. Now, 4 years on and 3 or 4 drops to the pavement and skids thereupon, I worry much less. Scratches and scuffs and rough and ready patches and repairs have this advantage: They send thieves looking elsewhere. So...maybe the owners of new bikes should take pains to cover the youth and loveliness of their machines. I don't by any means suggest that they crash them or beat them with a hammer...but maybe they can dirty them up a bit and, who knows, get decals that look like scuffs, cracks, and patches. Get creative!
Of course, there are those souls who would not be seen dead on a dirty, scruffy-looking bike and to them I say good luck. Personally I don't give a damn, but then I am an old man and you know what they are like!