Our website would like to use cookies to store information on your computer. You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but parts of the site will not work as a result. Find out more about how we use cookies.

Login or Register

Powered by
Powered by Novacaster
 
The trouble with Bikes
by Bruce Ure at 12:11 09/03/06 (Blogs::Bruce)
So yesterday I put the Blackbird in to Tippetts for an MoT, prior to selling it to support my hi-fi and other habits. (It sailed through.)
I've not ridden it for about four months, and the tax ran out a couple of months ago. In the meantime I've managed to persuade myself that I can easily live without it; it's dangerous, insane, reckless, an extravagance, a luxury, and so on. Completely convinced. Never a thought to keeping it.

Yet even in the miniscule 2-mile journey to and from the MoT place, which is all that is allowed to me by law whilst the machine is untaxed, I fell back in love with it, and I'm now back to where I was about three months ago: wondering whether to sell it or not.

I think on balance I will sell, as I really do need the money for my top secret business venture, but riding it again has been an awakening to how dangerously easy it is to get back into bikes after a period of abstinence.

On the plus side, when I'm rich and famous (shouldn't be long now), I can buy as many GSXR1000s as I want.

--

<< Power stilts Desperation defined >>
View Comments (Threaded Mode) Printer Version
The trouble with Bikes Bruce Ure - 12:11 09/03/06
Re: The trouble with Bikes David Crowson - 13:09 09/03/06
:)

Same here, had my first ride in 2 months yesterday after getting the ratty ole DR800 taxed for 33 ukp, it's a crap bike by todays standards (the Bird is luxury compared to it), but it's a bike, which is always good transport and it has character and I've missed it immensely....

miss the bird too, damn and the tigers..one day soon...

--
bombholio

Re: The trouble with Bikes Gordon Hundley - 09:10 10/03/06
Bruce, when you're rich and famous, I hope you'll be buying us all matching Ducati 999R Xerox replicas.
--
DrGoon
Re: The trouble with Bikes Simon - 10:14 10/03/06
Indeed - as someone wisely once said, what's the point of being rich if all your friends are poor?
--
simon