One week down, 51 to go ....

**nudemetalz** · 2nd June 2006, 11:49

...and I'm going nuts already !!!
All this good weather and the '10 remains firmly in the garage.

Is it normal to start getting motorcycle-withdrawl symptoms?
Like looking at bikes ride past when I'm on the bus, walking down the footpath, in a shop etc ?

I dunno how I'm going to handle this !!!

**Str8 Jacket** · 2nd June 2006, 11:51

What you need is beer. Get your arse down to the Bristol tonight at 7, at least you'll feel better for one night!...

**DemonWolf** · 2nd June 2006, 11:51

So how many times have you cleaned your bike so far?

**The_Dover** · 2nd June 2006, 11:54

I feel your pain mate.

**nudemetalz** · 2nd June 2006, 12:11

Originally Posted by DemonWolf

So how many times have you cleaned your bike so far?

A couple,......and started it a couple of times too.

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

What you need is beer. Get your arse down to the Bristol tonight at 7, at least you'll feel better for one night!...

I'm not allowed to even have a beer but nay mind thanks for the offer.
However there is one thing they haven't said I can't do....where's the missus..

**Str8 Jacket** · 2nd June 2006, 12:21

Originally Posted by nudemetalz

I'm not allowed to even have a beer but nay mind thanks for the offer.
However there is one thing they haven't said I can't do....where's the missus..

Ah bummer! Your poor poor wife...

**nudemetalz** · 2nd June 2006, 12:42

hee hee, I'll have to see if I can get to the rev-limiter,...

**Toast** · 2nd June 2006, 12:59

What happened nude? You lost your licence? For a whole year? That's insane! You'd have to piss someone off big time to get that handed to ya.

I know the feeling though...

If it is just a lost licence, pffft, you won't be able to fight it, you'll be out there again soon

**James Deuce** · 2nd June 2006, 13:04

Everyone knows it takes 51 weeks to restore a motorcycle to the gleaming news from when it was originally assembled.

1 week to reduce it to its component parts, 1 week to carefully label the boxes that you place in numbered order on the shelves in the garage, 1 minute for the wife to throw away the two most crucial boxes of parts because you put them where she normally keeps the bulbs, 9 weeks, 6 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes of panicing and wondering WTF you did with the box of conrods and the box with the instrument panel, 20 weeks for the "new" parts to arrive, 10 weeks to send them back in exchange for the right parts, then the final 11 weeks of reassembly/replacing stripped threads/getting skin grafts for your knuckles/standing back admiring your handiwork when the wife backs into the Zx10 with the Pajero.

You know.

Motorcycle maintenance fun.

**Str8 Jacket** · 2nd June 2006, 13:06

Originally Posted by Jim2

when the wife backs into the Zx10 with the Pajero.

Ha! remember my mates bike that you and Paul came and had a look at a few weeks ago?.... Just last week someone backed over it with a rubbish truck while it was parked on Hansen St!

**Pwalo** · 2nd June 2006, 13:13

Originally Posted by nudemetalz

...and I'm going nuts already !!!
All this good weather and the '10 remains firmly in the garage.

Is it normal to start getting motorcycle-withdrawl symptoms?
Like looking at bikes ride past when I'm on the bus, walking down the footpath, in a shop etc ?

I dunno how I'm going to handle this !!!

Geez mate I do that when I can ride, so I think it's completely normal. There are some really nice bikes around the J'ville/ Newlands area as well. I remember what it was like when I was unable to ride for a few weeks. Not a lot of fun.

Just remember to get lots of exercise in when you're not riding on a daily basis (presume that's ok?). It's amazing how much your gear shrinks otherwise.

You could always get the Missus to take you for a ride on the Big 10. Actually that's probably not a good thing to say.

Anyway take it easy Chris.

**XP@** · 2nd June 2006, 13:19

Jim2 - you are correct there :-) it would have taken one year to the day to get my cbr on the road, apart from I managed to burst my appendix at the crucial moment.

Really feeling for you there

I'm suffering serious nicotine withdrawal at the moment. Not quite the same as no riding though...

Jim2 does have a point, you could get a project bike and do that up over the 12 months. it is like a nicotine patch , nearly the same... smoking without the smoke / riding without the ride.

**sels1** · 2nd June 2006, 13:24

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

What you need is beer. Get your arse down to the Bristol tonight at 7, at least you'll feel better for one night!...

What a good idea - see you there.

**nudemetalz** · 2nd June 2006, 13:33

Hmmm,...well the ZX-10 has got spongy brakes, the shock linkages need redoing, the bodywork is in need of repainting, yes....I have considered selling it, but then it's been nah I'll keep it, then I change my mind I think, sell it.

The ZX-10 ain't a young machine but it is good for it's age and does deserve some TLC.
So why not !!

Lol at Jim though !!