On Jan 17, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net wrote:
I am wrong to still be embarrassed by this? BJ
I'll vote on the side of -- my bikes are race bikes and if you need
to appreciate them by touching, well ASK me and then go ahead. If
you touch first -- I might request that you not, but I sure as heck
won't go off the deep end and shout and scream. Many's the time that
I've put a kid on the seat for a photo.
There's one part of the bikes that I really don't want you to touch,
though -- the windscreen. The plastic scratches SO easily, smudges
so quickly -- please don't be putting your handprint all over where
I'm going to be trying to look through at a buck-ninety in just a few
minutes! Don't do me the "favor" of wiping off the salt flecks --
I've got polish and soft cloths and water for that.
Now comes the hard-to-say part -- I've had a starter, at the line,
rest his hand on the windshield time and time again. Geez, what to
do -- I don't want to scold Jim or Wes or Bill or Al or Monte -- they
might get huffy and make me wait before my run. But maybe we could
ask them, say, at the driver meeting -- to not touch the windscreen.
Jon Wennerberg
Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
Marquette, Michigan
(that's 'way up north)
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