How to break it to your wife

[Reckless]

tis all rather disheartening is all

I can help you out mate! I''ll give you $1000 for the RSVR , you won't have the future rego worries (a big saving) and you can devote all your time to that lovely wife!
Just as a favour like, I'll even come down and pick it up!! PM me LOL!

[crazyhorse]

Do kindy teachers get $60K on graduation?

Holy Crap. I wish I'd started on $60 Grand.

It was purely hypothetical - I'm not a teacher of any sorts, but was rather guessing this - my sister is a teacher and I know what she earns....

[mashman]

You can always come back to a newer bike once the sprog's a bit older and the Missus is earning a bit more coin.

I saved for 7 years for this bike, i'm 39, i'm not going to get another bike as i'll be 60 by the time the girls relinquish my wallet. I was looking forward to taking them to school on the back, just like my dad did with me, it's much much much more than my toy... it's not just a toy for me, it's my commute, my morning wake up call, my quick 30 minute blast when there's a kids birthday party on, and so much more.... It's the thing that brings "that" smile to my face and my wife comments on it. If i sell the bike, i'll never come back to motorcycling (some may say that's a good thing after seeing me ride)...

Perhaps this is the whole reason for the rant... i'll be giving something up for my wife... nope, i'm being forced into giving up my 1 tiny pleasure for any given day to line someone else's pockets and there's fuck all i can do about it!

[mashman]

I can help you out mate! I''ll give you $1000 for the RSVR , you won't have the future rego worries (a big saving) and you can devote all your time to that lovely wife!
Just as a favour like, I'll even come down and pick it up!! PM me LOL!

HEARTLESS CNUT!!! leave me alone Smithy, haven't you got enough already!!!

[Reckless]

HEARTLESS CNUT!!! leave me alone Smithy, haven't you got enough already!!!

Haha hopefully it generated a little smile!
I feel for you mate I'm not riding because of our renovations at the moment so its a real bummer with no bike to ride!
Pity her indoors doesn't realise how hard it is, ah well testing times! We will all muck on through no doubt! Good luck!

[avgas]

I'm sorry but an RSV owner complaining about money is like a child complaining that the silver spoon makes the milk sour.

I understand that the bike is probably hard earned - but lets put it this way. On KB there is a GPZ600 going for $2.5K - sell your bike, buy this one and you have rego for about 5-10 years? no?

[Oakie]

Sorry dude. I think that instead of breaking the news to your wife, you need to break the news to your bike.

[mashman]

I'm sorry but an RSV owner complaining about money is like a child complaining that the silver spoon makes the milk sour.

I understand that the bike is probably hard earned - but lets put it this way. On KB there is a GPZ600 going for $2.5K - sell your bike, buy this one and you have rego for about 5-10 years? no?

Pretty ignorant statement AVGAS... you know nothing about me... and in point of fact the RSVR (it's not the 30 grand factory version) cost me a $1000 more than the R1 that i'd seen the day before!!!

I don't want ANY other bike (stamping feet like little the rich kid that i obviously am), it's not JUST the riding i enjoy, it's risding the Prila that makes the ride "comfortable" for me... i earned this the hard way and still thought i had a few years to save for it, until i found her! I will sell her to put my wife through school make no mistake about it... but the fact that i have to sell her because some fuckwit in a pin striped suit, using incorrect figures, claiming he's doing it for the people pricing me off the road whilst my wife goes to train to educate the next lot of kiwi kids really shouldn't be on... it's not like i have a choice. My dreams go down the lav because of a reporting error!!!

[mashman]

Sorry dude. I think that instead of breaking the news to your wife, you need to break the news to your bike.

It could end up being both! I need to sit down with the wife and think it all through... really glad I vented on a forum

[Skyryder]

My wife has just been accepted for college... to become a kindy school teacher no less. Personally i think she'll be great, if somewhat loud, but having done a few calculations using the "proposed" levy hikes, we just simply won't be able to afford for her to go.

We've been planning this for the last year or so as my youngest is almost 2. We're not guaranteed a space at the college creche, so we've been financially reigning ourselves in over the last year to prepare for having no money for the next 3 years...

This is the real COST of the ACC levy's, the human cost. This wasn't just a whim, she's shit scared of the study and what it means to the family in terms of quality time.

I'd REALLY go into what it means, but i'm just a little distraught, stunned, call it disbelief, that the government are prepared to screw the present for the future... not fully realising the pressures that they're putting on people, or moreover not caring!

How the hell can i tell her that we can't afford for her to go to college? I honestly can't bear the thought!!!

This has to be one of the most disgusting governmental decisions i've ever seen, and all in the pursuit of MORE MONEY!!!! For the people by the people MY FAT FUCKING HAIRY WHITE ASS YOU BLOOD SUCKING WHITE MOTHER FUCKING GOVERNMENT!!!

It's why this country will always have social problems. The most formative years are in the pre school years and no government has fully addressed this problem. It is not just a matter of crech funding etc although that is part of it, it gets down to good basic parenting, decent food for child development, learning and cognitive skills but most of all showing 'consistancy' with your decisions in raising children.


Skyryder

[Forest]

Pretty ignorant statement AVGAS... you know nothing about me... and in point of fact the RSVR (it's not the 30 grand factory version) cost me a $1000 more than the R1 that i'd seen the day before!!!

I don't want ANY other bike (stamping feet like little the rich kid that i obviously am), it's not JUST the riding i enjoy, it's risding the Prila that makes the ride "comfortable" for me... i earned this the hard way and still thought i had a few years to save for it, until i found her! I will sell her to put my wife through school make no mistake about it... but the fact that i have to sell her because some fuckwit in a pin striped suit, using incorrect figures, claiming he's doing it for the people pricing me off the road whilst my wife goes to train to educate the next lot of kiwi kids really shouldn't be on... it's not like i have a choice. My dreams go down the lav because of a reporting error!!!

Sorry mate, but I've got no fucking sympathy for you. You've got more bike than you need, and more bike than you can afford.

Go ahead and stamp your feet all you want.

[Pedrostt500]

ffs, people are way more important than bikes.

What are You Thinking Man!!.

[bull]

Seems pretty simple - flick the bike off and if you must get a cheaper smaller cc bike to use. Little bit of sacrifice now will be owrth it once your wife gets quals. Even just her being happy youll notice the difference.

Bikes just a bike! flick it off.

[Karl08]

It could end up being both! I need to sit down with the wife and think it all through... really glad I vented on a forum

Better to vent here, so you can talk with your wife- as opposed to the other way round.

[CookMySock]

having done a few calculations using the "proposed" levy hikes, we just simply won't be able to afford for her to go.

Don't be an ass.

If she wants to go do something like that, you should fuck off and juggle the maths until it works out for her. Sell ALL the bikes if necessary, but make it happen.

Think about it.

Steve