MM -

It may be that you and I just don't hang around with the right crowd. When my son owned his Subaru WRX Turbo, I touched the edge of a new group of people of whom I was previously unaware.

People who will take a new high performance car and make it a hyperperformance car. They swap out fuel injector rails and camshafts and chips and slipper clutches and reprogram ECUSs and add turbochargers like we used to swap carburetors and spark plugs. And do it in their garages. Pick up one of their magazines on a newsstand - they actually have paper magazines. Or visit their websites.

Every time I think "We're the last ones. Nobody is interested in mechanicking, or old bikes, anymore", I find that it's because my horizon is narrowing as I get older, not because it's really happening ...

Lannis