[Nottingham] Legalising tinkering

[Jason Irwin]

I like to tinker, you like to tinker, our mechanic likes it when we tinker
because they see pound signs....

My motorcycle is so old that it's carb'd and I can do amazing things like
change the bulb without having to remove the front wheels and slaughter a
virgin goat to the gods of DRM like ones does with a modern machine.

With that in mind...the EFF is picking up the gauntlet:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/eff-librarian-congress-let-car-owners-look-under-hood

I don't want to to do every job myself. Some require specialist skills or,
at least, an enclosed area. Bleeding brakes in the pouring rain is no fun!
I like knowing that, push come to shove, I can look a few things up and
then sort it with the tools I have here.

At they very least I think that the ability to do basic repairs (bulbs,
fuses, wheels adjustments) should form part of the specs. e.g. being able
to change a bulb in under 5 mins *by hand alone*.

Or am I just a knuckle dragging Luddite and all the cool kids would post a
pictorial diary to Tumblr?

J.
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