Come on brah!
@Gionnirocket your as delusional as the rest of us.
Your bike with rholsof and full suspension, a bike not available to purchase yet but you have it.
Don't down play it. You probably paid $7k for that.
If I want a motorcycle I will buy one.
I bought this used Fatboy in 2017. Rode it around for year half and dropped it while intoxicated at a stop light and couldn't pick it upright. Police came and I got my 1st Dui.
Yeah, that would do it. Sorry about the "Dropping Under the Influence" but I understand exactly how that could happen, particularly while drunk-- and the weight of motorcycles is something that I've always found really off-putting. Sounds like the kind of mistake you are unlikely to repeat!
One night in the late '80s, my buddy parked his Yamaha 750 on the wrong side of the street for alternate-side-of-the-street parking in NYC. We got back to his place from a club at 2:00 AM, and we both were hammered, but-- and this was unusual-- he was way more hammered than I was, and could not ride his bike from one side of the street to the other. And at 7:00 AM, his bike would be towed.
Our brilliant solution to this problem-- since he'd had 10 drinks and I'd had six or whatever-- was for me, who had never operated a motorcycle before in my life, to drive the bike across the street from one side to the other while he ran alongside me and tried to help me keep my balance.
I did succeed, did not get a DUI, and did not dump the bike. But I almost did, in the middle of 72nd street, when I eased off the throttle, or squeezed the clutch (I don't remember which), and lost momentum. I remember just how heavy that bike felt as it leaned to the left, and thinking it would probably fall right on my foot. I somehow got a little more power to the drivetrain, the bike righted itself, and then I engaged the clutch again, coasted across the rest of the way across the street between two cars, where I somehow dropped the kickstand just as the front wheel bounced gently off the curb.
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I might be able to justify a third bike-- something like the Vado SL-- if I knew the suspension was good enough so I'd feel safe with it on these bad roads, and that I could ride it when I'm 75. It is weird, when I glanced at the title of this thread, my first thought was that it would be ridiculous to spend ten large on a third bike. But when I think of all my other obsessions, I'm actually MORE likely to spend between 5 and 10K on a bike than I am to spend the same amount on any of my other hobbies or interests.
But part of the reason I'm liking the Marin more and more for running diddly little errands around town is that
I want to drive my cars less, and the reason I want to drive my cars less is partly because
I like the cars I have so much and don't want to buy another. Part of the reason I don't is because I don't want to put that much carbon into the air, I don't want to fill up more landfill, I don't want to support an industry we should be (gradually, eventually) phasing out. And, given that I'm driving both cars less and less each year? I see no reason not to enjoy the hell out of them when I'm behind the wheel. And keep them nice looking and in good shape.
I did stop collecting guitars because they take up too much room, and I can't keep them all strung and intonated. I probably have 12 guitars-- no, I don't know exactly how many I have-- but I bought them to use them, not just to own them, and I estimate that each of them has been played at least 50 times. I don't covet a high-end Martin or Gibson, either acoustic or electric. I don't need them. I can record a good enough track and play a good enough show with what I've got. I'm just not that... subtle. (Some of my friends really are, and more power to them.) Having work done on a Martin or Gibson (particularly acoustics) can be like working on a Lotus... crazy expensive sometimes, depending on the job. A complete fret job costs the same on any guitar, but a cracked soundboard or bridge that's separating... I don't need the headache.
I have generator which I haven't seen in months my nephew barrowed it and hasn't returned it.
