Reply With QuoteI thought "custom" was a long established habit or tradition of a society. It's custom for Buell owners to chop the cheese grater.
It still stands that if you bolt on a couple parts it isnt a custom or a build.
Exactly
I thought "custom" was a long established habit or tradition of a society. It's custom for Buell owners to chop the cheese grater.
Haha dean I often ask myself mm should I call my exhaust custom? I mean it is made in this guys garage but he also is now established and a lot of people have his exhaust. Buuut it is ceramic coated. Well he did take my heat shield off too. I mean no one has that or this color ceramic on their 1125. Hahaha. But I do call my bike custom. I think it's safe to say. But I totally agree with you guys. Lack of detail (hacked up put back together). Bolt on ****. Thrown together crap. Cheapest parts everywhere. Isn't custom.
Don't forget the custom touch of duct tape
From a previous thread. If this isn't custom then I don't know what is. I am still jealous :p
THE custom Buell :D
That's more of a "rad rod" IMO. Custom just doesn't seem the right word to described this one lol.From a previous thread. If this isn't custom then I don't know what is. I am still jealous
a lot of builds are using commercial parts that are assembled to a personal taste there for 'custom' in reference to that specific combination.It's meant to mean something someone has added or changed to make it their own
since the whoredom of use of the word custom, what I like to use is 'hand fabricated' . This implies not only a custom part, but a process of work that is required to make the part and hand fabricated doesn't mean that a machine, bender, metalworking, etc., etc. wasn't used, but that a program running a metalworking machine for mass production wasn't used. Engineered (even if it's a hillbilly with a slide rule like me :D ) means that it was well thought out and mathematically verified before fabrication.
Well I'm sure that there is those who will disagree with me, so let the butt hurt flow.
i say let the butt hurt folks be butt hurt!! dont like the "custom" that someones bike is??? GET OVER IT PEOPLE!!!
ive seen bikes (and cars/trucks/etc) that are truely, honestly, 100% "custom"... hand made frame, rebuilt or crate motor, hand rolled and welded fenders and tanks,CNC milled rims... hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars of work and IT STILL LOOKS LIKE A POLISHED PILE OF DOG ****!!
"CUSTOM" is whatever it means to you..the individual.. until you find a way to buy every dictionary company and start a police control state where people 'go away to camp' for using the word against your liking.. it would probably do your blood pressure a good thing to let it go. :D
Posting Permissions
