I'm always having Harley riders look on in shocked amazment when I use a power washer to clean my bike and a leaf blower to dry it. I've been doing it for nine years now with no ill effects. I'm not going to spend hours cleaning it by hand when I can be riding it instead.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.