“Bike builders” – people who build\rebuild\restore or re-design bikes, or all of the above.
Go to your every-day, next door bike gathering and inside the horde of motorcycles you`ll find a one or more custom-build ones, and the crowd of people surrounding them like moth around a light bulb. The bike builder, the one who build the head-turning machine, will happily tell you the story of the build, Sharing the little details of the hard work he put on the motorcycle. but! there are some stuff that the bike builder will never tell you or say out loud, at least not in front of everyone, sometime not even in front of themself. here are some of them:
1 . How much did it cost. Really how much. The answer, is probably unknown to them. why? or they just stop counting how much money they put on the bike, or that they repressing.
2 . Those ruff moments of despair during the build, they imagined how they throw the bike from the nearest cliff.
3 . The moments when they seriously thought of doing that.
4 . The times they looked at the bike which they are building, think it will simply turn to be one level above their friends projects.
5 . The times they went to a bike-builders gathering, and understood it`s NOT.
6 . The times they told themself: “Could`t I find myself a better hobby? If I saved the money I spend on the bike I could now own my own company..” .
7 . That one hour of satisfaction – building the bike at their back yard, there where equally one hour of pure frustration.
8 . The fact that right before they left home today, riding happily on their amazing custom build bike, they saw that one loose screw. The one that needed constant re-screwing.
9 . About another screw, that actually was totally fine, but their little O.C.D mind told them it`s not. So they capt screwing it, until it broke free.
10 . The only thing in the bike they and only they can see, that forever will stay ugly\ or not perfect to their eyes. That “thing” is, by the way, exist only in their mind.
11 . About this one last paint job\ welding\ part replacement, they`re plan doing . as soon they`ll have the money. There never be enough money.
12 . The bike will never, but never really be “Finished” or “ready”.
Well, turned out to be more the “ten”, But it sounded better for a headline.
Think about more stuff bike builders will never say out loud? don`t be shy! tell me in the comments!