And that was that....

After almost 6 weeks of tyre-kicking "canna I ged a test ride moit" wogs,
wankers and squids, but none with even a $20 note (most without even a bike
license!). I ended up trading the ZX9R in on something for SWMBO to tootle
around in (ie, mini-cage) - long story. I am bikeless. I am sad.

I stood in the garage last night just looking at where the ninja used to
proudly pose and beckon me. I had a beer in it's honour (ok, and a fair
amount of scotch too - seems ethanol is good for the rider too). If anyone
purchases VLB-75 please be kind to it - we were good friends.

Here's hoping the flying[1] supports my adrenaline addiction.

James
ZZR250->ZX9R->bikeless

[1] As in real planes doing real funky stuff like parachute operations and
glider towing. Gotta get back into aerobatics too....

 

You'll be back.....

Moike

 

Hey - if you can figure out a way to attach a child seat to the bike with
SWMBO as a pillion (at the same time) *AND* manage to avoid divorce, I'm
all ears

James
ZZR250->ZX9R->bikeless

 

I certainly hope so! I haven't sold off the leathers, the helmets, the
gloves etc, etc....I don't plan on this being a permanent state of affairs.

Maybe when SWBO is back at work (when the rug rats are older) the $$$ will
be available to indulge again. In the meantime, I have great memories and
a full license that will never lapse

Cheers,

James
ZZR250->ZX9R->bikeless

 

http://tinyurl.com/9tv9j

HTH

Moike

 

....and a 'classic' too Tim!

 

Nope. Sometimes the $$$ just aren't there to allow for 2 cars and a
litre-class sports bike. Maybe my dick is too small, or my mortgage is too
big? Either way, it was my call to offload the bike - sometimes being the
man about the house means I have to make decisions in the best interest of
my family, which in turn, are not my personal preference.

In fact SWMBO (a term of endearment, not a statement of fact) made it
perfectly clear that she was happy for me to keep the bike - who do you
think grabbed me the 1st beer while I mourned my loss? However, I also
knew it was beyond our current income.

Economics 101 - when outgoings exceed income, you will eventually go broke.

This is a temporary situation...it WILL change Besides, this will give
me a great excuse to buy something nice and new next time ZX12R maybe?

James
ZZR250->ZX9R->bikeless

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:43:32 +1000

It's called a sidecar.

Sprogs go in chair, do up tonneau cover, they can howl, cry, fight,
whine all they like. YOu won't hear them.

Zebee

 

Zebee has lots of experience with kids!

Can't you tell?
Hammo

 

There ya go! You have two many cars!

 

Centurion wrote:

OK... you know what the above reads like to me?

You want a flash bike and a car or you won't be seen riding on a basic
bike... instead try this.

$3000 for an old Excel and $3000 for an earlier GSX750F. Put 3rd party
insurance on the Excel and the GSX750F. I chose the GSX750F because it
has narrow tyres (cheaper), but an XJ900 would work as well or a GS500
or any number of older cheaper to run bikes.


G-S

 

Yah - I wonder how much she charges for baby-sitting?

James
ZZR250->ZX9R->bikeless

 

Sorta. There's the $$$ and then there's the "my bike battery keeps going
flat coz I don't ride it much anymore anyway"....and a little bit about not
riding a flash bike I like my kit lean and clean. Riding around on
some $200 junker would just irritate me, which kinda defeats the purpose.

Yeh the bike side of things I can come at. But considering SWMBO will be
driving the "2nd" car more than I will, it has to have the creature
comforts AND be reliable (my requirements, not necessarily hers). So the
2nd car's purchase cost went up a couple orders of magnitude ruling out a
cheap bike for the immediate future

Like I said, when SWMBO is back at work full-time, I'll redress the
situation....or I'll buy a plane.

James
ZZR250->ZX9R->bikeless

 

Why do you need to commute by car, though? If you're in a
meet-clients-do-lunch type of work, keep a suit at the office and change
into and out of it at the start and the end of the working day,
respectively. If you're not, who cares what you look like when you walk
in through the door in the morning?

A $,3000 Excel has every chance of being reliable.

A $5,000 N15 Pulsar will have creature comforts and be perturbingly
reliable; my '99 model will clock over 170,000km sometime in the next
fortnight and it's yet to ask for even something as basic as an
alternator belt.

If you traded the ZX9 in for a used car, chances are you got yourself
stitched up to the tune of a couple of years' worth of rego and
insurance it would've cost you to have kept it...

 

Errm IK, that doesn't really work for everyone. I have nowhere to stash
a suit at my office.

JL

 

Hang it from the cube wall, back of the office door, a particularly tall
ficus... are your coworkers untrustworthy bottom-feeders who'd steal or
deface your suit if you left it laying around?

 

No cubicle wall - the wall dividing the desks facing each other is only
about 40cm above the edge of the desk and the outward edge of the desk
is covered by a filing cabinet. No chance of chance of hanging it there
(and even as short as I am it would drag on the ground if it did)

Haven't had an office in several years - f*ck I hate open plan !

Blimey ! I suppose I am only a few hundred yards from the Botanical
gardens, but don't you think it'd get a bit smelly and rotten from the
fruit bats ?

http://www.fertilizer.com/garden/houseplants/ficus.htm
http://www.bonsaisite.com/ficus.html

Errm no I doubt it, but, like, leaving a suit draped across the desk is
kinda, naff, y'know ?

JL

 

Because he doesn't really want a bike. *shrug*. It's up to
him, let the poor fool unsubscribe in peace.

-----sharks

 

Yah... it is isn't it

<looks around at his wood partition with glass tops, thinks back to
the days of real offices and sighs>

It's also frowned upon getting dressed and undressed in a (mostly) glass
partition... well... unless you are a good looking young female (and
even then 50% frown at you


G-S

 

Toilets yes... bathrooms no. There is a small wash basin outside each
toilet. I can barely squeeze far enough out of the way of the loo door
to close it. Getting dressed in there would be almost impossible.

Getting dressed by the hand basin means getting dressed in sight of the
lunch room crowd.


G-S