Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance highlights the concept of “Stuckness” and he provides a very useful paradigm to resolve such. Not that this (Stuckness) was, or is, a new concept to any of us who work on mechanical contrivances. Having read and re-read Pirsig’s book many times and working on motorcycles spanning 100 years since their production, it is, for me, an all too familiar concept.
It was some years back while watching the “Fastest Indian” that I noticed Burt Munro’s “Offerings