Wrenching in a new dimension
Home Office Evolution
For a few weeks now we’ve been testing new methods of remote work here at W&W: Up till now working on a Harley was possible only with the wrencher’s bodily presence right beside the bike on the lift. However, modern life has seen employers embracing a good work / life balance for their hard-working employees. Working from home can be an important step towards reaching that goal. Thanks to remote work the modern man can operate the washing machine, ferry the kids around, and put the empty almond drink cartons in the recycling bin. And vice versa.
All very nice and so on, but when somebody’s Panhead kicker doesn’t kick or their Sporty’s tail light goes phut, someone’s got to put a wrench to the problem. Too bad the bike sits miles away in the garage or in your employer’s shop, necessitating a two hour commute on your part. In times of AI practical solutions to this problem should be within reach, and we’ve already got one, just a few prompts away.
A Lucky Find with Global Potential.
Sorting through the baskets with left over parts from our 1928 Harley Model J in our basement, we discovered a convolute of papers in an old saddlebag. On closer examination we found it to be a couple of well-preserved patents dating from 1903.
Our R&D team took a look at them and spotted
the potential right away. Scientific progress since 1903 has been brisk, so after substituting the stipulated "Universal Couplings" with USB connectors, the "Cataclysmic Converters" with dryer drums, and the "Dimension Portals", that need to be "demagnetizable" according to the papers, with Morad aluminium rims (19"), they were on track to a working prototype.
A few minor setbacks such as several breakdowns of the electrical grid in the larger neighbourhood, the unexplained disappearance of a guard dog (along with his master), and some superficial burns on his hands when first entering the dimension-belt zone (the Morad rims had been hooked up anticlockwise by mistake) had to be rectified, until Nobbi, our man for inter-dimensional wrenching from home was able to do a successful test run from his sofa, replacing a set of spark plugs on a Sporty that was parked 35 km from his home.
The Future is … well, almost here.
We used sophisticated Artificial Intelligence to draw up a user manual (the black & white chart). Going into series production is now our main priority. Before that can happen, a few more bugs need to be ironed out, eg. the Y2K bug (all this only works on Harleys up to 1999 vintage). Also, the whopping energy consumption means that the Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Bureau of Infrastructure) has to issue special exemptions. But rest assured: nothing will not stop us in our quest to accelerate the progress of convenience wrenching (ConWrench) in the private and commercial sector.