Comment on Talia's Post

I agree with Talia and feel that I am in the same place as she is in the novel. Whenever the narrator begins to talk about his philosophical components and ideas I drift away and lose interest. The same happens when he starts talking about how he conducts his mainteenace on his bike and gets specific on all the details. I do not have the minimal knowledge on motors or automobile maintenance, therefore, the only aspect i get out of it is that he is an expert in what he does and has passion for it.
This brings me to what Talia pointed out, how the narrator is ahead of John, not only in maintenance but in rational thinking. In the extreme heat, John gets frustrated and seems to be having an awful time during the rides, and keeps going faster and faster to try to get it over with, however, the narrator, knowing the dangers of such action, stays behind going slower. The narrator demonstrates his rational thinking when he explains how he divides his life and everything he does, especially his motorcycle maintenance, into categories. I do it as well, and having the same experience, can say that the categories  never end. One classification lead to another and another. The same way as one problem leads to the next and the next and one hypotheses leads to the next and the next, it is an infinite sequence that one needs to earn how to deal with since life is full of it.