Morning all. Many years ago I started saving up for a second-hand 900SS but once I had all the money together I was beguiled at the last minute into a Husqvarna supermoto, and what a disaster that was. Crashed it in my bedroom before it had even been on the road (don't ask - drunk), wiped out on a sharp left on the first run, then had a month of fun until I got rear-ended by a boy-racer in a Fiesta at a set of lights. Game over. Should've bought the Ducati. Now years later I have. A '92 900SS. Except it doesn't start. And I've just found out it's an American import. And err...my wife doesn't know about it yet (it's tucked away in my container with the other five bikes she DOES know about) So once I've got rid of a couple of those, and put my Hilux back together, I'll break the good news to her. And start posting questions on the forum. Many questions. Gulp! Happy New Year.
Welcome m8... The best thing you can do to avoid the expensive divorce is move the bikes into the house and lock the wife in the container, claiming she left you and moved to OZ!
Hello and welcome. I'm sure there will be plenty of useful advice should you need it. And you've already seen the Micky taking that will happen!
Welcome toolbox lots of banter on her, sorry here. Good luck with the bike fixing and the wife fixing.
Welcome. That must have been some bedroom to get up enough speed to crash. I took a wrong turn in our bedroom once and the Mrs clouted me around the earhole.!!
And err...my wife doesn't know about it yet (it's tucked away in my container with the other five bikes she DOES know about) .[/QUOTE] Like your style. But will you get away with it? I thought I could when i got my 999 but didn't reckon on my daughter noticing a different red bike form the one i was usually on Fairly new here myself - Hello and welcome
Like your style. But will you get away with it? I thought I could when i got my 999 but didn't reckon on my daughter noticing a different red bike form the one i was usually on Fairly new here myself - Hello and welcome [/QUOTE] Welcome aboard! My wife can't tell one red bike from another either but like mmw14 my daughter has been properly bought up and can tell a SS from a 998 from a 999 etc. So if you aready have a red bike you may just get away with it, whatever happens it is the LAW to post it on the forum. :wink:
Superb. I once bought a secondhand fairing bracket off ebay - thought the wife did not know about it - did I get it when she found out. Sorry but need more info on crashing the bike in the bedroom, was it a first floor bedroom or bungalow - pictures if possible. Welcome.
My mate tried to upgrade his ZX6 to a ZX10 without the wife knowing. She found out when his new reg documents turned up in the post :tongue:
Hi and welcome, good way to start as that is the best first post I can remember reading. Good luck with the SS, they are fantastic bikes. Well the ones that start are anyway.
Gee thanks guys and gals - what a welcome! The crash was actually pretty unspectacular, and it was in 2002 so not really a time when cameras were always to hand. I was attempting (as I said, drunk) to do a burn-out on the wooden floor but the lack of friction at the back wheel was similarly equal to the lack at the front, so all that happened was the bike slithered along the floor until its mudguard caught on the sink. The front end folded, causing me to end up also smacking my head off the sink. Fair play to my flat-mate - the only thing he had to say about it later was 'You should've been wearing a helmet'. Not 'What the f**k were you thinking of!' or 'You're a f*****g a**e!' or anything. Just suggesting I wear a helmet in my bedroom... Speaking of bikes in the bedroom, nuttynick number 50 in the Bike of the Year definitely gets one of my votes for a guy who has his priorities right. Bike looks like it'll be a useful tool as well. Anyway, better go - I hear my wife stirring. Oh God this is like an internet sex-chat room!
