It's hard to learn humility until you've royally f**ked up at least a few times. Failure keeps you in touch with reality, and you can never know how far something can be over your head until you've gotten halfway into it and said "Jeezus Christ, I'm So F*d.
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If no one experienced the above, there'd still be dose bags putting ugly 330 conversions on 750s that barely run and look like hell, then showing up here with pics of the aforementioned bastardized paperweight trailered to some event so half-naked women could rub themselves on it and he could give us some sort of 'I told you so." ...while wearing one glove, throwing up the horns and still looking like a total 'dose'
If no one experienced the above, we'd still be getting people with far more money than sense; the guys who buy an old bike, then clear Carpy's shelves and pat themselves on the back for making an awesome cafe racer "all by themselves."
Most importantly, if no one experienced the previous lessons in humility, we wouldn't have threads like the inspiration thread, or the networking we have within our community with greats like Hondaman, TwoTired, MRieck, Paulages, Spikeybike, Voxhonda and many, many others who are truly, truly skilled with this stuff
and actually willing to help the newbies out. If newbs didn't get in over their heads enough to freak out, and get advice well over their heads, then they'd never end up learning how to value the advice they can get here and that'd be a hell of a loss.
so.... put on your big boy panties and ask for help if you need it, then ask for clarification if you need it.
There are no stupid questions. ok, that's a lie. There are a lot of stupid questions, but sometimes they need to be asked, too. Search button is your friend- hopefully someone else has already taken the hit and asked the stupid question
for you.
