On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:42:39 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks, Marnie for looking and the comments. see my reactions inline....
> Sigh, motorcycles everywhere. Sorry, that's my reaction. :-) no probs...but wrong culture... :-) > When gas prices sky rocketed here, tons of people went out and > bought motorcycles (although I see fewer of them now that prices > have plunged -- think a lot of the new ones are not residing in > garages again). I have no major objection to motocycles, but I do > object to the helmets and jackets all the new riders bought (flames, > skulls, etc.). Somehow the feeling was try to look a bad ass. I > found all the new "weekend warriors" (although I think most were > riding them to work) just a tad silly. Like "buy a motocycle and you > also must try to look like a Hell's Angel." (A few did get neutral > hoods and jackets.) > > I also found it annoying. like i said, wrong country, wrong culture. nothing can be more mainstream and middle-class than motorcycles in India. no hell's angels or bad ass pretensions. just a convenient tool that can get you to work and back and get a lot of other work done conveniently and cheaply. and for a lot of us, the preferred mode of long distance travel. > But that's just me. However, seeing motorcycles in nature spots > doesn't appeal. places like these see at the most 5-10 motorcycles a year. small cubic capacity motocycles (200-350 cc) that are mostly very fuel efficient and whose emissions can be handled pretty well by the environment because the numbers are so few....objecting to motorcycles in nature spots also i feel conveniently pushes moral responsibility for pollution, for the environment, elsewhere. the US remains the largest emission of green house gases by a huge huge margin. like i said, that's just my take...or my justification, if you can call it that for motorcycling to places like the himalayas... apart from enjoying myself immensely :-) thanks for looking, regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
