#Raw power motorworks how to

I guess I could make the soundtrack at the shop like most others and just play rockabilly, old punk, or hardcore - but, I'm not going to do that. Wax Tailor, for me is hard to categorize. No heart, no soul, the only history is in their name. The modern revivals are just a Beatlemania cover band of the old moto brands. The name of the brand remains, but the people, the designers, and engineers have all disappeared and been replaced. With motorbikes, the revival is a much less authentic. The sound, the vibration, and feeling one is about to fall off the back - man that is a thrill. Modern bikes and how smoothly they accelerate and adequately stop in time - fail in helping us relive that rush of our youth. Whether it was their first one or the one that really cool kid down the street had. Many folks coming in the shop are looking for that bike of their youth. Along with you, these bands have aged, the emotions and desires that created that art have long since passed and now most are a cover band of themselves. Seeing that band live again lacks the authenticity of that original show or time you put that super cool record on before trying to impress that new girl with how cool you were. Each of those moments where we have put a soundtrack to an event in our life we can relive again each time we hear that song. Pan camera to some 80's cliché teenager sitting in their room listening to the Smiths. There is this intangible thing with a band and its music at that right point in time that transcends it from just sound to something, for lack of better terms, spiritual. I am just not as enthused about their revival as many of my compatriots are. Don't get me wrong, many of these bands I list among my favorite musical acts. For some reason I understand this more with the motorcycles that get restored and resurrected at the shop as a means to preserve the past, than I do the constant barrage of reunion tours from the bands of my youth. At points I understand this desire as it is part of what I do, but often I am at a loss for the desire to halt time and relive a part of your past. A point in a persons life where what has passed is much more alluring than what will come. It seems I am smack dab in the middle of the nostalgia years. There is something wonderful about a crisp morning and a cuppa with the steam coming off to start your workday.įor a proper British rant on tea and its preparation here is a little ditty from George Orwell.

#Raw power motorworks how to

At this point you can add any bit of milk or sugar you desire and make it a builder's, but in my opinion a good tea straight is how to go.Pour the hot water directly on the tea/teabag - Loose tea you can leave in, but I would remove bagged as it can get bitter (give at least 3-5 minutes).Place the tea or tea bag in your cup. There are many different holders for loose tea, but if properly brewed, loose tea will sink to the bottom.Warm the cup or pot you will be brewing in - This is so your water does not lose its heat.

A true fanatic may scoff at the use of bagged tea, but I am a realist. PG Tips is a good economical tea with decent flavor. Loose tea is not necessary, but it will be a more flavorful brew. A good black tea or Earl Grey are my go to teas.

Fresh water boiled to a rolling boil - this means there are bubbles and all that.

The other bigger leaves up the stem are used for different teas like souchong. The 'bud' or highest grade would be Flowery Orange Pekoe or Flowery Broken Orange Pekoe. It is a medium grade also described as Broken Orange Pekoe (BOP) that uses the smaller middle size tea leaves. Orange Pekoe is not a kind of tea, it is a method of grading black tea. I am not some purist that will scold you for calling it tea, but if you offer me tea and serve me that swill I will think you a fool. All those others things are technically not tea. Tea is black or green tea derived from cured leaves of the the Camellia Sinensis shrub/tree. So, here is my rant on/are some guidelines for a proper cup of tea… Let's not get hung up on whether you put milk and or sugar in it, I am talking about the tea itself. The inability for most Americans to brew a proper cup of tea. This leads me to the point of writing this. This popularity was helped by the East India Trading Company and its hold on trade coming from India, China, and more. Advance ourselves forward a couple centuries and tea is as prevalent in the UK, but has lost out to coffee in many of the former colonies.

Somewhere in the 1600s this simple beverage arrived from the east and took that island nation by storm. While the sun never set on the British Empire, it also never set on a proper cup of tea. The most important thing for enjoying your tea, is a proper mug.