Been quite busy since the start of the holidays... Barely have any decent time on the Internet... Yes, i'm online but most of the time, juz searching for source codes and stuffs related to programming. Tuitions are at a halt currently, but not the expenditures. Bank reserves going dangerously low. haiz...
this seems to be the season of upgrading... i've gotten my bike already, eric gotten his super4, eleen her cbr, aub her f4i... now awaiting kiri and roger... wonder what kinda surprises they going to pull out... hehe...
since at the topic of the upgrading, though i've always been talking about getting a pair of exhausts for my bike, it seems to be quite a heavy burden right now... how many a times i actualli get to use the increase in power? 0.. haha.. but for the poser value.. it's definitely going 1 level up... =P
assuming the total population of 1 liter bike riders to be 10,000. there will probably be less than a hundred who really redlines their bike in top gear trying to squeeze the extra 5 to 10 kph outta the machine... and maybe there's onli like maybe 4000 plus who brings their sportsbike down track and whack the shit out of the machine again... therefore per 1 liter bike, there's like ard 50% un-utilised horsepower and the amount of carbon choking at the valves are increasing dramatically every day... why then get a big bike?
haha.. for me... again POSER VALUE. but then 1 very commonly heard saying for people trying to convince themselves of the investments => " The power is good to have. It's better to have power and not use it than to need power and don't have it."
However 1 very true rational that drives people to upgrade, it's the form of peer pressure we see very commonly in secondary schools where punks try to influence their friends to smoke, etc. Now we are at the age where our friends will indirectly pressure us to "smoke" too (to "smoke" others with the big bike, that is.. haha).
Riding a big bike in singapore is a sore, no! make tat a pain!!! i don't like riding in the stop and go traffic, i hate it when the radiator fan comes on, i despise the knocking of the engine telling me that i'm going too slow, i try not to look at the fuel consumption read out, last but not least I hate it to the core where i have to keep closing my throttle juz to ride barely at the speed limit of whichever roads you can find...
There's always the silver lining behind every cloud. For all those who can't keep their tyres solely on local roads, the open highways of our neighbour up north is always so inviting to us. This is when the 400cc bikes gets torn to shreds by the big bikes. (As these above are based on the assumption that the riders all have the same capacity of testicle [male riders] and the same capacity of dunno-wat for the ladies [whichever body part used to describe the boldness and daring-ness of the rider]). That is the place where we get to utilise more than half of the bikes' horsepower... that in a sense is also a good thing, parts don't get worn out so fast and engine is less likely to blow on you... with proper maintainance that is...
the taste of freedom and speed comes at a costly price... for me: $500 road tax, $425 insurance,$180 season parking annually, all these excludes servicing, repairs and modifications. For those contemplating an upgrade, above is a simple breakdown. Lastly, i'll like to add the motivating factor that gotten me to upgrade..
"Ride with your close riding buddies when you are young - it maybe difficult to afford (not impossible); Enjoy it now when you want and you can. Don't wait till you are old where the idea of riding may put you and your family off and live only to wonder what riding fast, cornering low together is like (don't regret...)..."
