{"id":32882,"date":"2021-08-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=32882"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:45:36","slug":"thoughts-when-your-motorcycle-breaks-down-think-laterally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20210810\/blogs\/thoughts\/thoughts-when-your-motorcycle-breaks-down-think-laterally","title":{"rendered":"[Thoughts] When your motorcycle breaks down and you&#8217;re really stuck, why not try thinking about it laterally?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSC01434-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/DSC01434-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/DSC01434-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/DSC01434-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/DSC01434-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/DSC01434.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How long can I keep this up? Thoughts\u2014we update every morning at 8 a.m. <br><br>I tend to approach mechanical topics logically, I suppose. <br><br>But haven&#8217;t you ever found that the actual result was an unexpected blind spot? <br>It really does happen. <br>What you know and what you&#8217;ve experienced are truly tiny things. <br><br>When the moment comes, it&#8217;s surprisingly important to set aside your preconceptions and look at things with fresh eyes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From experience, I&#8217;ve thought, &#8220;It has to be here! Mechanically, that&#8217;s impossible!&#8221; only to find out&#8230; <br>Oh, so it was there after all&#8230; how disappointing&#8230; seriously? <br><br>Assumptions create blind spots and narrow your range of options. <br>For example, a technician&#8217;s experience five years ago and ten years ago are different\u2014hopefully they&#8217;ve grown. <br>But in that time, the motorcycles themselves have aged incredibly, and you encounter failures and deterioration you&#8217;ve never seen before surprisingly often. <br><br>Sometimes a seemingly mysterious symptom turns out to be a one-in-a-million lucky hit\u2014something you actually had experienced or anticipated. <br>When you&#8217;re truly stuck, searching online is helpful, but if you broaden your perspective more laterally, you might find that puzzle piece of the mystery faster than you&#8217;d expect. <br>Lately it&#8217;s tough because you have to worry about whether original parts are even available. <br>(*^-^*)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long can I keep this up? Thoughts\u2014we update every morning at 8 a.m. I tend to approach mechanical topics logically, I suppose. But haven&#8217;t you ever found that the actual result was an unexpected blind spot? It really does happen. What you know and what you&#8217;ve experienced are truly tiny things. When the moment comes, it&#8217;s surprisingly important to set aside your preconceptions and look at things with fresh eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-32882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}