Posted in: Country by shovelhead13 on November 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments
This tells about the kind of music that helps me work on my chopper. It is really relaxing to listen to some old country music while I have to figure out exactly what is wrong with some sophisticated part.
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At first when I started riding a Harley chopper the kind of music I preferred to listen to was just the opposite of your average chopper riding biker. When you went into a biker oriented bar the jukebox usually had some hard core rock and roll songs on it. In just about every biker club house the patch-holders there played the same kind of rock and roll.
I had grown up listening to old country music. That’s why I would never waist any quarters in the jukebox at some bar filled with bikers. I’d just save that money for another beer or to play some more pool. I wouldn’t even enjoy what was being played when I went to a friend’s place to give him some help fixing his ride. They would never play any country music.
This musical taste could even cause me a hassle at home. Whenever I had a biker friend of mine over to help work on my ride the country music played would drive them nuts. They would always act like state penitentiary prisoners in my motorcycle shed while Willie Nelson or Hank Williams played. None of them could understand why I listened to that kind of music.
Those types of tunes are still played in my motorcycle shed. They help me stay calmer while trying to figure out some mechanical problem. My mind tends to emphasise problems while it rocks and rolls.The frustration encountered is worsened. Occasionally the radio will play a song that really helps you relax. There is one song about a brand new tattoo and an old Harley to ride. It cracked me up right in my motorcycle shed the first time it was heard.
I know one ought to listen to some music as they work on their motorcycle that helps them relax. I had to have that lesson emphasised six months ago. I had been working on the carburetor while listening to that country song that takes place in El Paso. I was putting the air cleaner back together when the song began telling about the gunfight that killed the hero. That distracted my mind so fully it didn’t notice how the cover wasn’t bolting back together right. The gunfight had the cover get misaligned. It wasn’t noticed through the song. I went ahead and tried to tighten the cover bolts down firmly. In the end the song had me break the choke lever right off the top of the carburetor.
That CD isn’t played out in the motorcycle shed any longer. I only play some relaxing tunes so nothing else will get messed up. Working mechanically isn’t at all like partying down with your friends. You should have some easy going music playing every time you pick up a wrench and the owners manual.
