Morris, Ash

On Buying A New Harley

1. To buy, or not to buy, that is the question.
2. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to keep your old Harley,
3. Or to buy a new and thus end the heart-ache
4. And the thousand natural shocks that wishing
5. For a new Twin Cam is heir to?
6. Tis’ a consummation devoutly to be wish’d.
7. To buy, to break in; to break in, perchance to break down;
8. Ay, there’s the rub;
9. For in that 1000 mile break in period what dreams may come,
10. When we have shuffled off our proven steed,
11. Must give us pause: there’s the respect
12. That makes calamity of so long break-in period;
13. For who would bear the looks and scorn of other drivers while you ride 55,
14. The truck drivers wrong, the Yamaha rider’s contumely,
15. The pangs of dispriz’d schedules, the law’s delay,
16. The insolence of Gold Wingers, and the spurns
17. That patient merit of the unworthy Suzukis’ takes,
18. When he himself might his quietus make
19. With an older Harley? but, who would fardels bear,
20. To grunt and sweat pushing an older bike,
21. But that the dread of not having 20/20 foresight,
22. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
23. No biker returns, — puzzles the will,
24. And makes us rather bear those maintenence problems we have,
25. Than fly to others we know not of?
26. Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all;
27. And thus the native hue of resolution that all HOG riders possess
28. Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of timid thought;
29. And bike trips of great pith and moment,
30. With this regard, their planning turn awry,
31. And lose the name of action.