and it was all uphill and the bikes had no wheels
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i think the best way this movement will spread is through the environmental argument. Maybe some people look at gas prices and their minds turn to a solution, but most probably just curse and then fill 'er up. Once the 4 strokes are fully in swing, with a reliable in frame mount and gear box, we could go to the environmentalist movement and say look, we have a viable, bolt on alternative (that isn't public transpo) to the one-person automobile/motorbike ride. It is hundreds of times more efficient and uses existing infrastructure to drastically reduce pollution. And it's hella fun and cheap! If a major environmentalist lobbying group could be convinced we could probably get somewhere. That's the kind of support that would change things. A bunch of impulse buying hobbiests, even if we are dedicated and right, can't change things directly, because we aren't the kind of people that spend all day at political rallies calling and bribing the right people; we spend our days tinkering with our bikes. If we want to actively spread the movement, not just support it like our child and watch it grow, we need to talk to the people who control other people.
I think it will come... just give it a few more years. Eventually it will become in fashion to own one of these engines, if only to avoid gas costs. If Obama gets elected it might come sooner, when/if he gives the finger to the oil companies as he has promised.
Imagine if we had a quality NA engine to tune and produce aftermarket parts for. We could have a thread called "MPG"! Instead of tuning for speed, we could all be tuning for efficiency and engine lifespan!
If someone, somewhere, somehow does start producing NA engines, it will become our duty to support and cherish said company. If it happens, it CANNOT be a failure, even if we all have to buy 10 new engines each. Just get some more bikes, and then get some more friends, and bam, you'd have gotten us some new members too
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