I just cleared out some of the foreign bank notes I'd collected over the years, It freed up some space in the garage to make room for a couple of bikes!.
Hmmm, I've only had one bike at a time for the last 15 years or so, clearly doing something wrong, wish that I'd kept my Speed Triple when I bought the 848 & then remember that it's the bike I used the least in the 5 years that I owned it... Oh & just like another poster, I've got a couple of cars as well & yet walk to work (most of the time)
Yeah, absolutely, everytime I open the garage door I do look at them and think "I actually own those!" The rsv4 has been of the road for the last 3 months or so (waiting for spares from the lazy italians) but I didn't mind too much because "it was mine" - does that sound a bit weird?
How Do You Justify Owning A Bike ? Simple...........................i don't :smile: It's my money, i earnt it and if i want something and can afford it, i'll buy it. Don't really give a monkey's what anyone else thinks.......................and certainly don't see any need to justify it.
I was asked if I'd go and find a girl that was into bikes and climbing if I wasn't 'allowed' to pursue my interests ... Obviously I said yes.
Hmm, in the absence of a significant other no justification required Quite easy to tell anyone else enquiring "why do I need a bike?" to go do one
If you have to justify your purchases to the wife, you ain't punching her hard enough. If you have to justify it to yourself, you've put the wife's trousers on by mistake. If you're spending twenty large on a bike in the hope it'll make you better than everyone else, you're deluded. Buy a bike, any bike, and enjoy it. And stop trying to justify it.
You're only young and irresponsible once. If you're lucky, that period overlaps with a period when you have both the means to buy cool toys and the good health to enjoy them. Not everyone is so lucky, so if you are, take full advantage.
Widowed, but have a live in partner now. Yes, i was the same when my wife was alive..........................i did say if i could afford it and wanted it. That dosn't mean i didn't spend on other things as well lol.
It's good that you can afford things and buy them when you want. But I don't believe that you did not give a toss about what your wife thought, nor what your partner thinks now.
And so is mine. But I do consider her when I buy big ticket item stuff or going away on holiday with the boys 2 or 3 times a year. And vice versa.
War is coming. Ebola is coming. We will be shortly living (assuming survival) in a very primitive way and battling other survivors for the basics. Our harrowed bodies and shattered minds will need something to look back on in order to preserve sanity. So I'm making the most of civilisation while it lasts. I'm also burying tinned food throughout Lincolnshire for future retrieval, and tooling up for self-defence.