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OK... OK... I know I am an unfit Parent... The Bike is dirty, The obvious neglect to the chain is rare... (Jango is a bad influence) we do too much riding and not enough garage bonding.



Although I am almost convinced that spending many hours on maintaining a vehicle is virtuous, I believe that most pieces of equipment can take more beating and neglect than we're lead to believe.

For instance, I bought a 1989 Nissan King Cab 10 years ago and drove it until I'd racked up some 140,000, then donated it to "Cars For Kids" as a tax right-off (got more in tax relief than I would have gotten selling it!). In that time, I changed the oil twice. Twice! I'll say that a third time just for effect: Twice.

So apart from the lube shops who bombard me with the "Oh, you MUST change oil every 3,000 miles" who else wants to tell me how I managed to drive some 6000 miles per year for ten years without the truck dying?

So go ahead, lube the chain every three weeks, but I bet you could go a year. I now wonder whether some of this "frequent lubing" talk is just BS to get me (and everyone else) to fork out cash. It's like the old joke: "Why do you throw banana skins on the floor?" "To keep the elephants away." "But there are no elephants in Ohio." "See, it works!"

Siggy

If life wasn't so pointless and absurd, I would take it more seriously.