Problems Solved for FREE
 

Problems solved for FREE just post any problem here for a solution.

I have noted that most if not all of those who post on the HUBB have at least a modicum of common sense. Some, actually more than a few, have more common sense than I do. I have tangled with a few only to discover I had missed the point and was insisting on some moral track that I was the only one supporting.

Anyway, in defense and offense, others who have posted on the HUBB have been rated as intellectuals by those who have frequented cafes noted for the presence of intellectuals-

In my case, here in Buenos Aires, where the ego rides and reality walks.

Assuming you agree, just present your problem here, and those with common sense, or the intellectuals, or all others who read here, might or might not post a possible solution.

This is the Hubb Pub Think Tank - tanked....

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Intelligence
 

My thought of the day on riding and travelling for some significant amount of time.

As you change routine (from work to travel) and the need to exercise one area of your brain more than the other, so the level of intelligence sways more in the direction of use.

I felt that after a period of 2-3 months on the road, that the mental challenges faced whilst at work were missing yet the intellect needed for travel, a very different set of skills need to those at work are used. One never replaces the other, it's just that as one set of skills and knowledge is used less, and another is used more, just a as a sea saw would rise and fall, my intelligence seems to take on a new role and somehow grow in an area more than another.

Has anyone else made this reflection? :confused1:

Nice to see this topic resurrected again; I've always thought we could do with a bit more metaphysics and a bit less tappet clearances :smartass: :rofl:

Probably won't happen though - SamuelUK's academic contributions on the physiology of biking that he started posting around this time last year seemed to fall on stoney ground here and were fairly aggressively dismissed elsewhere in the "adventure biking "world.

If you click through to the IJMS site you'll see that this year's annual conference was held in London a couple of weeks ago. Even with a narrow view of the biking world there were a couple of presentations that would have been of interest - Lois Pryce on her London to Cape Town trip and Matt Healey on Adventure Motorcycling, for example. Anyone from here go? If you did what did you think? I don't go through every post that's published here but if it was mentioned I missed it. A pity really as I had the time and a lot of the other topics sounded interesting as well.

Maybe we should bare our souls rather than just the inside of our engines a bit more. I'd be interested to know whether others think there's much validity in academising biking or whether in trying to capture the spirit you lose the magic. I've never (deliberately) tried to think too deeply about the motivations behind my involvement with bikes but considering some of the best times in my life as well as some of the worst have been connected in some way with motorcycles maybe I should have. Only last week a deep seated bike related disaster from the 1970's came back to bite me. A bit of thought about how it fits into the sociopsychological panorama of contemporary culture (:confused1:) and I could have a paper for next year's conference :eek3:

Elisa and Ernest Hemingway
 

Posting meaningful metaphysical commentary in response to the questions posed by Turbocharger and backofbeyond is temporarily lost in my joy of reading their questions. I will tamp my joy with "dos o mas copas de vino" while wasting a few unedited lines.

I did not attend the IJMS International Journal of Motorcycle Studies conference in London, but at the beginning of this thread I did post a link International Journal of Motorcycle Studies to the journal.

I had the good fortune, perhaps good foresight, to be on hand when Elisa began to ride motorcycles. She was an academic, a tenured professor of Spanish Literature, but absolutely ready, she said, "to go beyond words." After a year long sabbatical in South America, but before middle age, she demanded early retirement from the university so she could continue riding motorcycles where and when she pleased.

Elisa is Spanish, holds a PhD from Syracuse University in New York, and is a published author and world class scholar/lecturer on the Spanish civil war poet, Antonio Machado. Her academic career offered her the opportunity to teach or attend conferences in many, many countries. No tappet clearances here.

At the time, her intellect consisted of very compartmentalized information , little related to motorcycles - other than brief references to motorcycles with sidecars read about during her studies of the Spanish civil war. No tappet clearances here.

One compartment she did not have was fear. She was the most fearless woman I have ever known. She has more courage than most men I know and smarter.

OK, as Elisa learned the difference between single cylinders and twins, panniers and bash plates, I observed her intelligence - her intellect - was primarily based upon her ability to perceive differences and similarities. . I knew she was smart, but did not know what that meant in terms of motorcycles or riding motorcycles. She noticed the difference between the clutch lever and break lever, but she also noted the similarities between the two. She adapted so quickly to motorcycles that her first, her very first ride on her brand new (0 Kilometer) motorcycle , was, at her insistence, Av. Juan B Justo 7550 to downtown Buenos Aires. I bucked traffic for her on my motorcycle, but she never stalled, she never faltered and she was never in fear. I was never so much in love.

Without the reserve of information gained by the Aussi TurboCharger during his RTW and before, Elisa used all that academic compartmentalized information, but mostly her innate ability to perceive differences and similarities to successfully ride a motorcycle through the traffic of one of the world's major cities.

I submit to those who read here that intelligence - multiculturally - is based on the ability to perceive differences and similarities. Being able to perceive differences and similarities in communication, riding motorcycles or any other skill included.

I missed SamuelUK , but I wish I had not. Please update me on the year ago postings - where?

Ernest Hemingway lived civil wars, world wars, big game hunting, fly fishing for trout and deep sea fishing, bull fights, tangled emotional relationships, injury and suicide.
I cannot claim to know Hemingway, but I have read Hemingway extensively, you might say that what Elisa is to Machado, I am to Hemingway - without the PhD.

Reading Hemingway may help when wanting to metaphysicalize the HUBB, the brilliant use of dialogue, of bringing the reader into the scene, scattering the philosophy, as if it were buck shot, in and around the action, and always remembering that when in close bird shot blows as big a hole as buck shot because it does not scatter as quickly.

Hope that helps.

xfiltrate eat, drink and find out who was SamuelUK

Strangely enough I have three of Hemingways books sitting on the desk next to me at the moment. I've just finished "A Farewell to Arms" and my wife found "The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Moveable Feast" in our local secondhand bookshop a few days ago. I'll let you know how I get on.

SamuelUK posted quite a bit last year - look back through the entries in the "Staying Healthy on the Road" section. Here's one to get you going -
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...rcycling-65540

Not Again!
 

[QUOTE=backofbeyond;430193]Strangely enough I have three of Hemingways books sitting on the desk next to me at the moment. I've just finished "A Farewell to Arms" and my wife found "The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Moveable Feast" in our local secondhand bookshop a few days ago. I'll let you know how I get on.

It is called remote viewing and when the brass finally understood it really worked, became very, very, super concerned, probably for their own careers, grabbed it back from Stanford University and the Army, and made it a very controlled but ever ongoing black project.

Interesting that you noticed...., and good we are in the Hub Pub for I was bounced out of one of the African regions for posting my more accurate remote viewing results for a Sahara kidnap plot without posting any propagandized news releases for validation. piga, piga bawana

May I strongly suggest reading
By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway for these are the non fiction dispatches and observations that will hold you in good stead as you navigate his fiction.

xfiltrate eat, drink and don't remote view in public

Lao-tzu and other taoists on bikes
 

Thanks for the likes. Wu-wei is part of taoist philosophy that suggests purposeful action be abandoned in favor of simplicity and wu-wei (nonaction, or letting things take their natural course).

I have often noticed the very best overlanders practice wu-wei when riding, never over correcting, always correcting gently and allowing the bike to find it's way. :mchappy:

xfiltrate eat, drink and wu-wei