I'm having real trouble getting used to it!

**Edbear** · 22nd November 2011, 17:51

I'm going through a very painful withdrawal from biking!

Everywhere I look, (and even where I don't look I hear them!), bikes everywhere and now the weather is warming up there are ever more of them around the roads!

Old bikes, new bikes and bikes in between! Small bikes, large bikes and medium bikes of all types, of all engine configurations. Some commuting, some cruising, some playing in the traffic.

Male, female, solo and pillioning, everywhere and every day my eyes and ears are assaulted by the sight and sound of MOTORCYCLES!!!!!

Please, someone, make it stop!

Then, like today, I go back to a customer who has now signed up to be a dealer for Shorai batteries and in his showroom is this XJ600 Diversion at $1000.00 off!

**Disco Dan** · 22nd November 2011, 17:59

Did you sell your bike?

It doesn't get any easier. I still yearn to be back on a bike, still buy the occasional bike magazine (self torture!) and seem to see them every time I'm out driving...

I even went into a bike shop the other day... just to sit on one - how sad is that?! AND it was a Honda!

**240** · 22nd November 2011, 18:00

Make a compromise with yourself mate and get a spyder.They are farken grouse!!

**Tigadee** · 22nd November 2011, 18:02

I know how you feel...

Since my skid on Satursday, my left wrist is kinda crook and I'm waiting for a replacement footpeg bracket as well, and I am itching to get back into the saddle and ride down the road...

**Edbear** · 22nd November 2011, 18:06

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

Did you sell your bike?

It doesn't get any easier. I still yearn to be back on a bike, still buy the occasional bike magazine (self torture!) and seem to see them every time I'm out driving...

I even went into a bike shop the other day... just to sit on one - how sad is that?! AND it was a Honda!

Word of advice... Don't break your back, (twice!), and then discover you have Osteoporosis and your surgeon bans you from not only riding bikes but pretty much all physical activity that you used to enjoy...

Originally Posted by 240

Make a compromise with yourself mate and get a spyder.They are farken grouse!!

Nah, I'd only want a bike more. We've got the MX5 for sporty fun but even that is not viable for too long at a time.

**Disco Dan** · 22nd November 2011, 18:08

Originally Posted by Edbear

Word of advice... Don't break your back, (twice!), and then discover you have Osteoporosis and your surgeon bans you from not only riding bikes but pretty much all physical activity that you used to enjoy...

Nah, I'd only want a bike more. We've got the MX5 for sporty fun but even that is not viable for too long at a time.

So sorry to hear that mate, I would have lied and said it does get easier if I had known that!

**blue rider** · 22nd November 2011, 18:09

you poor thing,

but before you get a spyder, get a trike....please

**Edbear** · 22nd November 2011, 18:24

Originally Posted by blue rider

you poor thing,

but before you get a spyder, get a trike....please

See above , but I did see this at Big Boys toys and fell in love with it...

**Ocean1** · 22nd November 2011, 18:31

Originally Posted by blue rider

you poor thing,

but before you get a spyder, get a trike....please

Why? A classic trike is inferior to a spyder in every way.

And they're a lot more ergonomically correct and comfortable than an MX5.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 22nd November 2011, 19:38

Originally Posted by Edbear

I'm going through a very painful withdrawal from biking!

Everywhere I look, (and even where I don't look I hear them!), bikes everywhere and now the weather is warming up there are ever more of them around the roads!

Old bikes, new bikes and bikes in between! Small bikes, large bikes and medium bikes of all types, of all engine configurations. Some commuting, some cruising, some playing in the traffic.

Male, female, solo and pillioning, everywhere and every day my eyes and ears are assaulted by the sight and sound of MOTORCYCLES!!!!!

Please, someone, make it stop!

Then, like today, I go back to a customer who has now signed up to be a dealer for Shorai batteries and in his showroom is this XJ600 Diversion at $1000.00 off!

I know the feeling: there was a four year period when I was POOOOOR and didnt have a bike. It sucked.

Given your issue is health, could you perhaps consider something like a Can Am Spyder, or one of those Harleys like Piney rides in Sons of Anarchy?

Not trying to be a smartarse, serious suggestion. It strikes me that with either you would get to put all the gear on, wear the helmet, and get the whole wind in your face thing. No leaning of course (but a cynic might suggest that wasnt the M109's forte anyway).

**HenryDorsetCase** · 22nd November 2011, 19:40

Or sidecar!!!!

fuck yeah. Desert camo painted M70 Ural. You would have to get the optional .50 cal.

http://www.bikeexif.com/ural-motorcycle-2

**Edbear** · 22nd November 2011, 19:47

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

I know the feeling: there was a four year period when I was POOOOOR and didnt have a bike. It sucked.

Given your issue is health, could you perhaps consider something like a Can Am Spyder, or one of those Harleys like Piney rides in Sons of Anarchy?

Not trying to be a smartarse, serious suggestion. It strikes me that with either you would get to put all the gear on, wear the helmet, and get the whole wind in your face thing. No leaning of course (but a cynic might suggest that wasnt the M109's forte anyway).

Lolz! My C50T was fine in the corners. I can't afford another toy right now I've sunk everything into my biz and it's going to be a few months before I have much in the way of disposable income again.

The Kizashi is more fun to drive than an ordinary car has any right to be and for wind on the hair and exhilaration the MX5 is more fun than a barrel full of monkey's!