[Shop-talk] changing times...

[old dirtbeard]

I meant to say that the video is much more enjoyable if you zoom it out to
full screen and turn-up the volume loud.  You might find yourself leaning
into the curves (I find myself doing it). :-)

On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 4:44 PM old dirtbeard <dirtbeard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Yes, I agree with you completely.
>
> I have a 1972 BSA B50SS that I bought new in '72 when I was a high school
> senior, and when I ride it out on the street now, it draws attention
> because it is seen as an antique (a single cylinder, air cooled, a kick
> starter, it is loud and vibrates, etc.).
>
> Then I realized that my 2001 Sportster is over 21 years old now, and has a
> carburetor and no electronic engine controls, no ABS, and it is seen as an
> ancient and curious artifact.
>
> I also work at a university where the majority of the students now were
> born post 911, and that highly impactful event now is seen as an ancient
> historical moment like WWI or the assination of JFK.
>
> Time moves forward gradually, but then at moments you realize that the
> boots you are wearing  are 25 years old, and older than the person to
> whom you are speaking.
>
> I just had an epiphany when I realized that more time had transpired since
> I graduated from high school than had transpired from the end of WW1 and
> when I had graduated from high school. When I was a HS student, I used to
> think WWI was a century before with biplanes and infantry warfare...
>
> I think it means that we are fortunate to have lived long enough so that
> although much of what we know may no longer be meaningful to subsequent
> generations, it still is meaningful to us.
>
> I am still tearing around on that '72 BSA B50SS, even if twenty-somethings
> do not understand it.  :-)
>
> Here are a couple photos of the "antique":
> https://gopro.com/v/JbB9XPeDdg6kK
> https://gopro.com/v/7a7zwvLy4KD8e
>
> Here is a video of it running up a hill:
> https://gopro.com/v/rDpnZ2GVK1w9E
>
> best,
>
> doug
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 3:05 PM David Scheidt <dmscheidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The other day, I was at my local habitat restore, browsing tools. It's
>> very close to me, I pop in once a week or two, to look.
>> They clearly have gotten the estate of an old car guy, as various bits
>> of old test equipment and speciality automotive tools have been there
>> (when they get a bunch of stuff like that, they tend to parcel it out,
>> instead of putting it all out at once) over the last couple months.
>> The other day, there was a twenty something year old looking at a
>> tachometer/dwell engine analyzer.   he asked if I knew what it was.  I
>> attempted to explain.  I'm pretty sure he had no idea what a
>> distributor was, and the idea of points baffled him.   I'd said old
>> cars had them, he said 'like from the 80s?'.
>>
>> --
>> David Scheidt
>> dmscheidt at gmail.com
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