Zen and the art of motorcycle maintance

I need to read the Pirsig classic, as the parallels of two characters, one with a new bike and no plan to learn about repair, and another with an older bike and a desire to learn how it works and how to service it, are surprisingly similar.

Downloaded the service manual for my enfield bullet motorcycle. It is a well written and detailed manual, and the bike is easy to work on and well designed. Both on my phone and tablet, but a printed copy would still be handy. Though nanden advises to take the info in the manual with a grain of salt, and use it forguidance more then reference.

Having fun adjusting the idle speed, brakes and clutch, which need a little tuning I feel. (This was written before i saw i had almost no compression due to my piston having 'soft-seized' in addition tomy piston rings had a huge gap from wear. This probably happened on the highway getting to pokhara, as it was the first time i opened her upto almost full speed, which in retrospect was a mistake, especially not knowing the topspeed we hit. According to nanden, even an engine broken in, but only city or mountain ridden less then 70km, will seize up if you just take it to topspeed and leave it, he claims you must slwoing wear the clearances for that working temputure, which is a perfectly logical approach. The enfield, when new has many parts not set at working fit, but interfereance fit, and only through careful wearing the parts in can you achieve perfect tollerences.

Currently I need to fix my rear brake light, which apparently was disabled after a mechanical fault (a screw attaching the brake switch to the bike is missing, causing the switch to rotate) by removing the spring and splitting the electrical connector to the switch, both are easy to fix. My turn signals also need to be fixed, one of the rear ones is falling off, and the front ones are removed entirely. They have also been electrically disconnected.i also want to fit larger jetsin thecarb and the k&m airfilter rohit gave me, plus change the tires formodern knobbies, and change the rear suspension or the spring/recharge or tunr the pressure, or find an oldschool oil dampened shock and tunr that instead.

Work done on my bike so far (as i remember)
-rear shock bushings
-front shock seals and oil
-rear brake pads changed from knockoff
-engine rebuild and new piston cylinder head kit after catastrophic seizure
-wheels bearings
-centrrstand needed weld tokeep bike upright, making it easiertoget offthe stand[needs tobe done again]
-oil pump rebiolt
-used pistons fitted, needto put new ones in india
-got a rack
-fixed/disabled rear brake light myself a few times [missing a bolt i cant find, gonna use wire as there is no stress]
-Got spokes fixed in rear wheel and wheel trued.