Comments on: The Kneeslider – What Recession? Just Do It!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:55:15 +0000

You write for me. Which means I check your site often.

I’m poor, so I buy cheap and spend time (and money) getting them reliable enough to use for local transportation and for multi-state trips. It also means making my own luggage and some fittings. I enjoy seeing what other people build and your site provides a look at machines that I don’t see elsewhere.

By: Niki

Niki — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:45:22 +0000

Sounds like people will be getting their hands dirty some time soon!
There is nothing like the sense of satisfaction of doing something that you were not sure you could do before you gave it a go.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:17 +0000

Yes! I would love to go off on my own and create something original (and I do to an extent), but it is really tough to take that first step risking everything (current job, home, family). What would be nice is to find others in your/my local area that share the same passions. You could trade skills, give each other support, make new friends and build some cool original vehicles. Just a thought. By the way, I live in Randolph, MA if anyone has the same thoughts.

By: Peg Leg Craig

Peg Leg Craig — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:16:55 +0000

I also see lots of reasons to hold back in todays world. But along time ago someone said; “The first step to better times is to imagine them.” Chinese proverb.
Since we only get one lap in life, make it count. Revisit some other dreamers dreams, Britten, Monroe, Vesco and one of my favorites, Sir Peter Blake.”Never take no for an answer and never give up. If you really believe in what you’re doing, and you’re really keen, then you’ll succeed – it’s as simple as that.
I gotta get back to the garage, Bonneville is just around the corner and I’ve got work to do. Craig

By: marvin

marvin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:33:34 +0000

Hi this reminds me of a post about doers on boing boing
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

With the exception of pretending to know what you are boing with breaks it sounds like a manifesto for your first custom bike.