Could be a CB750 or 500 or 550 or 350 or a Kawasaki Z1-900 or.......
I might have to pick me up a copy of that book if you say it's good.
I might have to pick me up a copy of that book if you say it's good.
ZEN and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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OK, I'm reading the book not the movie, but I'm betting at least some of us out there can read. 
It's more zen than motorcycle, but still interesting. I'm still trying to figure out what he's riding, it was written in 1974, and his bike has four cylinders, but that's as much as I know so far.
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I majored in Philosophy at Penn State...I was a state licensed motorcycle inspection mechanic...If I couldn't fix the bike, I looked for a bigger hammer
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Read this book a few years back. Actually probably among one of the LAST books I took the time to read (besides Shop Manuals) in the past few decades?! Sad, I used to be a real little bookworm in High-School….. (tryin’ HARD to stay out of trouble…!). My experience also, very difficult to read (some books are like that…) but was worth muddling through. The follow-up at the ending though was a heartbreaker: the author having lost his life a few years later because of some low life creep out there! Dang shame…
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Try hard to follow this (from the book) WHEN the machines are giving me a tough time!
“Peace of mind isn’t all that superficial, really ... It’s the whole thing. That which produces it is good maintenance; that which disturbs it is poor maintenance. What we call workability of the machine is just an objectification of this peace of mind. The ultimate test’s always your own serenity.”
“If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself. It’s an unconventional concept, but conventional reason bears it out. The material object of observation, the Motorcycle, can’t be wrong. Molecules are molecules.”
“They don't have any ethical codes to follow except those people give them. The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn’t any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it’s wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed. The test of the machine’s always your own mind. There isn’t any other test.”
My experience also, very difficult to read (some books are like that…) but was worth muddling through. The follow-up at the ending though was a heartbreaker: the author having lost his life a few years later because of some low life creep out there! Dang shame…LRG
Try hard to follow this (from the book) WHEN the machines are giving me a tough time!
“Peace of mind isn’t all that superficial, really ... It’s the whole thing. That which produces it is good maintenance; that which disturbs it is poor maintenance. What we call workability of the machine is just an objectification of this peace of mind. The ultimate test’s always your own serenity.”
“If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself. It’s an unconventional concept, but conventional reason bears it out. The material object of observation, the Motorcycle, can’t be wrong. Molecules are molecules.”
“They don't have any ethical codes to follow except those people give them. The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn’t any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it’s wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed. The test of the machine’s always your own mind. There isn’t any other test.”
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