Originally Posted by gastro
I, for one, and presumably others who consider accurate information to be a valuable asset and people who spew poorly thought out speculation compunded by incorrect terminolgy to be a hindrance.
So it's bad for a person to gain some experience and share in that experience because they did not swallow the same dictionary as some one else?
That's interesting.
And so what if he is a poser. It really doesn't hurt to just considder the source and move on to a more experienced member.
How do you suppose those more experienced members got their experience?
At least Pheard has enough interest in bikes to want to be on here.
Last I checked, there is not an entrance exam.
As for the poorly thought out speculation compounded by incorrect terminology part.
I'm assuming that part's about me since I seem to be taking the brunt on this one.
That's OK though.
I know my qualifications and experience, and afterall, experience really IS the best teacher.
That's what I speak from, experience.
You want to know where that experience comes from?
I'll tell you anyway.
My Mom was an AMA race official at the old Holiday Hills motocross track in spokane many years ago.
I was born into it.
Got my first mini bike for my 5th birthday and have been racing since I was 8.
I took a 4 year break from racing and just rode when ever I had the chance when in the Army, and took up mountain bikes when I got out. Army was in 84 through 88.
That's 19 years now on the mountain bikes and in that time, I started in beginner class like everyone else and promply moved up to sport that same year. I did work up to Expert 18 to 34 age group for Norba races (at that time) and raced semi pro in the non norba Wild Rockies series. Of course, now I'm in an older age group and that's good.
All the while, I was my own mechanic as I could afford the parts, but labor was normally another story at that time.
Now I've got over 30 years of working on bikes, both motorized and nonmotorized.
I didn't go to school for this, I learned from the school of hard knocks and messed up parts.
Now several years later and still riding and working on my own stuff, but out of the love of working on it now, rather than the financial reasons in the beginning, I moved my company to the bike industry along with the snowmobile parts that I've been building and selling.
Experience really is the best teacher.