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More on _Live By It_



Perhaps TheMoCo's ad was an altered (for marketing purposes)
version of the following view; this particular version from
a Punjabi, India web site, and which seems to be a tribute
to a Royal Enfield rider:
This is his 2006 Royal Enfield twin:
No, it's the big bad 23 horsepower Bullet Machismo 500cc single...
At least there's a disk on the front now.
The photographs flatter it. The last time I saw a Bullet 350 at a classic
bike show,
I complimented the owner for a wonderful restoration and asked what year it
was.

I changed my mind about how nice it looked for an old bike when he told me it
was
new. It just looked authentically retro, no better than a pre-war Enfield
would have looked,
given the economic conditions of the late Great Depression period.
Here's the latest Bullet 350 single for '07. Note the Old School
drum brakes front and rear... and what's that lever on the same
shaft as the rear brake pedal? A kickstart, or maybe an auxiliary
brake pedal for the passenger's use in cases she gets nervous.

Larger image at:


"You were born to walk the road less traveled
You knew you were born to be different
From the time when you lay on your back and stared at the clouds
Biding your time before you touch them
You knew you were born to be different
When you travel the roads and paths
On your machine
When the world make way for you and your bullet
Ride away my friend, Ride away to your dreams"

- Nandita aka Ayn Frost

I don't know if "Ayn Frost" means "Ayn Rand + Robert Frost",
but compare it with this:

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-- Robert Frost; "The Road Not Taken"