The funniest moments in life, we’ve come to learn, are seldom scripted. Come next issue (on sale April 4) we’ll reveal why this is true with the latest installment of our regular Stylin’ humor column. Many of us on CRM’s staff are avid collectors of misspelled, poorly-interpreted translations of the English language and seldom does the distance between tongues reveal itself more fully than in motorcycle product literature. With the profusion of foreign-made parts and accessories on the Internet, its one of life’s goofiest pleasures to open a box covered in some foreign script or another and laugh our way through instruction manuals that appear to have been written by participants in a 1960s LSD test. The item below, culled from an early Honda motorcycles rider’s manual is typically side-splitting. Wot- no Google Translate?
