Motorcycle Forum / General / Sportbikes / January 2006

Hehe, good one.  Must be a NZ thing.

I think they are trying to relate to the guns airmen used on American
bombers during  WWII.  i.e. the tailgunner position on a B-17, like the
"ballturret gunner" a dangerous place to be.

Bryan

Bryan

Well, it depends upon your priorities, doesn't it? Some RUB might spend
$50K on a.s jewelery while ducking his child support payments.

By the same token, some 275 pound yuppy who sits in a cubicle all day
at work eating Cheetos and surfing for that special kind of pornography
he enjoys will mail order a $1000 titanium canister for his signature
race replica, instead of going to the gym and sweating off the few
pounds of weight the canister would save.

If there is a aftermarket, somebody will make styling/performance
parts, if there's enough demand, somebody will stock it. There will be
some customers who buy the part because it's novel and exclusive, some
will buy the part because the guys he rides with have it, some guys
with no friends at all will buy it because they think it will be a
great conversation piece to pick up on women, and there are as many
reasons as you can imagine why somebody might buy a rotating gatling
gun style exhaust canister.

Of course the cops will instantly notice this thing, the first guys to
install one WILL get fix-it tickets, until the cops get used to seeing
them if a lot more guys get them.

But, eventually, the gatling gun exhaust will wind up on the top shelf
in a garage where it will gather dust and spiderwebs until somebody
discovers it and wonders, "What the *f.ck* is this thing, anyway?"

And, maybe it will wind up at a flea market or swap meet and some Civil
War collector will buy it and he will take it to an appraiser at an
antique road show and the appraiser will very knowledgely expound upon
how it was an experimental Civil War gatling gun barrel built by a
little known Russian inventor working for the Confederates and it would
be worth $10,000 if it wasn't so badly rusted.

And maybe the proud owner will take it home and display it in his
living room and tell all his friends that he owns a Piece of History.

Until his old lady gets on his case for having that filthy thing in
*her* house. Then the guy will put it back in the garage where he found
it.