I've been riding a motorcycle for 50 years...now I know why. I did read Pirsig's book when it was first published, but didn't remember this. I did remember that his friend rode a BMW and Pirsig made shims for the BMW's handlebar mounts out of a beer can, but was careful to never tell his friend, John I think, where the shims came from.
Jack BMW Motorcycles Chuck KE9UW c-haw...@illinois.edu Sent from my iPad > On Jul 12, 2020, at 3:51 PM, Jim Ewing <ewingina...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Relevant to what Wayne said is this quote from Pirsig: > > *“That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. > There's no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone's mind > [...] I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have > trouble seeing this—that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.* > They associate metal with given shapes—pipes, rods, girders, tools, > parts—all of them fixed and inviolable., and think of it as primarily > physical. But a person who does machining or foundry work or forger work or > welding sees "steel" as having no shape at all. Steel can be any shape you > want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you > are not. Shapes, like this tappet, are what you arrive at, what you give to > the steel. Steel has no more shape than this old pile of dirt on the engine > here. *These shapes are all of someone's mind. That's important to see.* > The steel? Hell, even the steel is out of someone's mind. There's no steel > in nature. Anyone from the Bronze Age could have told you that. All nature > has is a potential for steel. There's nothing else there.” > ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry > Into Values <https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/175720> > > So, it's important to see a main reason why these radios are so excellent; > because they come from the minds of people who can express their love and > talent for cw in radio circuits, just as eloquently as Wayne does in his > story. > > Jim N4TMM > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to c-haw...@illinois.edu ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
