360bikers.com

If you’re reading this you probably have an interest in computers and motorcycles.  Afterall, you’re reading a motorcycle blog on the Internet with a computer.  Like our bikes, we enjoy making upgrades and adding accessories to our computers from time to time.  It make the time we spend here a bit more productive, entertaining, and useful.

I haven’t posted here for almost a week because of such an upgrade.  Imagine ordering a Screaming Eagle kit for your Harley-Davidson and installing it.  The work goes according to directions and you’re ready to step back and admire your work.  You get on the bike and it starts up, only your throttle doesn’t work like it used to, your oil filter doesn’t filter, and your lights point straight up.  Not only that, it appears that you can’t change the settings at all.  So, you call your local Harley dealer to get advice and they tell you to take it all apart, reinstall the original equipment, and test it to see if it works the way it was before you upgraded.

Yeah, thanks a lot.  I want to waste all the time I put into upgrading by downgrading to see if I can upgrade again.

I upgraded my computer to Vista.  I lost all my email accounts in Outlook.  My receiver quit working.  Some of my peripherals were unrecognized.  I should have listened a bit more closely to my friends who said, “Don’t do it!”  So, I’m telling you:  Don’t Do It!  The time you waste repairing your computer upgrade could be spent shining your bike, putting another piece of chrome on it, changing the oil, or better yet… RIDING IT!  The age-old motto, if it works - don’t fix it, holds true on your computer, too.  Perhaps after a year or so when someone says it’s safe I’ll try it again, but not likely.  I missed several nights that would have been great riding because I had to repair this system.  I missed time I could have cleaned my bike and worked on it to make it nicer because support was worthless.

Don’t do it.

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 17th, 2007 at 3:57 pm and is filed under . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.