[SoothingDave]

There's an episode in the book where he needs to shim something in his handlebars and he's eons away from any type of registered official parts place, so he uses a pop can as shim stock.

The sorta "square" couple he was riding with at the time were appalled. I guess they were sort of proto-yuppies, wanting the status symbol bike part over the functionality.

Every engineer should read the book.

SD

[martin_fierro]

so he uses a pop can as shim stock.

Sounds like my early riding experiences on a leaky old HD/AMF/Aermacchi SS350

Used gumbands (yunz know what those are) to add tension to the kickstand, and a cut slice of green garden hose to deflect oil leakage downwards.

If that's Zen, I was it.