(04-18-2023, 01:16 PM)clearviewx_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Should grab a copy of that 1st ocean picture for the 2024 CB1100 calendar edition.
Sadly Craigslist does not do a great job of furnishing hi-res images. if i blow that up to the size of a page it will look awful. i checked.
(04-19-2023, 02:31 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Rolling midlife crises are how I typically obtain my rides.
Particularly if the owner's wife is pressuring the one with the crisis to sell.
Amen Gone.
You might be a silent voice of many.
CB1100: Owner was stressing over selling it, wife was nagging that he just stared at it in the garage while he was lifting weights
Bonneville: Owner bought his-and-hers Triumphs thinking it would be great if they both started riding. He had already sold one of them, mine was being used as a laundry drying rack in their garage when I showed up to look at it.
Interceptor: Owner bought it because it was pretty, and an RE dealer had just opened nearby.
In all three cases, there was a wife standing in the background, arms crossed, staring intently as the purchases took place.
Had 1 + have 2 CBs = never heard any complaint either
Some spouses are far smarter than arm crossing:
" ... get it luv. xoxo" (but you owe me)
We have a "No More Things With Wheels" policy in our house. Makes sense. We only have enough room for a limited number of vehicles, and I don't have the energy to take care of, or pay tags and insurance for more than what we've got. Mrs. G is still "bike-curious", and if I declare that I'll be selling a bike to buy something else, she likes to be involved to the point of checking out what I want to buy, maybe sitting on a new version of it in the showroom and flipping the switches, saying it's a pretty color.
Sort of like when she wants to add to her huge menagerie of plants. We'll go to the nursery, I'll take a look, say "Ooh, that's pretty"... I know that I am there merely as labor to carry said plant to the car and load it in, but I am sort of interested.
And, we both have our little financial victories in the expenses involved in our hobbies. We celebrate when I sell a motorcycle part that's no longer needed, or when she sneaks a cutting for what would be a very expensive plant and cultivates it.
(04-21-2023, 06:41 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: [ -> ]We have a "No More Things With Wheels" policy in our house. Makes sense. We only have enough room for a limited number of vehicles, and I don't have the energy to take care of, or pay tags and insurance for more than what we've got. Mrs. G is still "bike-curious", and if I declare that I'll be selling a bike to buy something else, she likes to be involved to the point of checking out what I want to buy, maybe sitting on a new version of it in the showroom and flipping the switches, saying it's a pretty color.
Sort of like when she wants to add to her huge menagerie of plants. We'll go to the nursery, I'll take a look, say "Ooh, that's pretty"... I know that I am there merely as labor to carry said plant to the car and load it in, but I am sort of interested.
And, we both have our little financial victories in the expenses involved in our hobbies. We celebrate when I sell a motorcycle part that's no longer needed, or when she sneaks a cutting for what would be a very expensive plant and cultivates it.
Good to have a fair policy. Keeps the happiness in place and to enjoy the machines at hand.
(04-21-2023, 06:41 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: [ -> ]We have a "No More Things With Wheels" policy in our house. Makes sense. We only have enough room for a limited number of vehicles, and I don't have the energy to take care of, or pay tags and insurance for more than what we've got. Mrs. G is still "bike-curious", and if I declare that I'll be selling a bike to buy something else, she likes to be involved to the point of checking out what I want to buy, maybe sitting on a new version of it in the showroom and flipping the switches, saying it's a pretty color.
Sort of like when she wants to add to her huge menagerie of plants. We'll go to the nursery, I'll take a look, say "Ooh, that's pretty"... I know that I am there merely as labor to carry said plant to the car and load it in, but I am sort of interested.
And, we both have our little financial victories in the expenses involved in our hobbies. We celebrate when I sell a motorcycle part that's no longer needed, or when she sneaks a cutting for what would be a very expensive plant and cultivates it.
So are you lookin' to buy a boat or a snowmobile?
Definitely not, pdedse, but thanks for asking.
