"Bikeless" Blues

**Zed** · 14th July 2004, 14:48

After being without my sickle for over two weeks now I'm well and truly convinced that being "bikeless" sucks the kumara BIG TIME!

I suppose driving the cage has been beneficial because of the cold temperatures we've had, and coincidentally it has been school holidays so the traffic has been lighter - yeah right?? Still takes me over an hour to get home from work on our beloved AK motorway system!

The shop tells me that I should have my two wheels back mid next week, so I guess my time of sorrow will end then.

Question: How do you handle being bikeless when it's against your will?

Zed

**White trash** · 14th July 2004, 14:58

You post threads expressing your anger at every little pissant thing said behind your back. Then you get offers from great people offering to help with extracting revenge on said shit heads.

Great ol' life aint it?

**riffer** · 14th July 2004, 15:02

Originally Posted by Zed

Question: How do you handle being bikeless when it's against your will?

Zed

You should try FOUR weeks without a bike.

At this rate my wife will be kicking me out of the house again.

I need to get back on it for ALL of our sanities.

**Zed** · 14th July 2004, 15:13

Originally Posted by White trash

You post threads expressing your anger at every little pissant thing said behind your back. Then you get offers from great people offering to help with extracting revenge on said shit heads.

Great ol' life aint it?

Hmmm...I'm confused by that comment? Come again Trashman?

**Firefight** · 14th July 2004, 15:15

Originally Posted by Zed

After being without my sickle for over two weeks now I'm well and truly convinced that being "bikeless" sucks the kumara BIG TIME!

I suppose driving the cage has been beneficial because of the cold temperatures we've had, and coincidentally it has been school holidays so the traffic has been lighter - yeah right?? Still takes me over an hour to get home from work on our beloved AK motorway system!

The shop tells me that I should have my two wheels back mid next week, so I guess my time of sorrow will end then.

Question: How do you handle being bikeless when it's against your will?

Zed

Your welcome to take my bike out for a ride half a day this weekend, you will just have to lower your self to drive a car out my way.

F/F

**MikeL** · 14th July 2004, 15:17

Originally Posted by Zed

Question: How do you handle being bikeless when it's against your will?

My solution was to test ride as many bikes as I could without feeling guilty or embarrassed. Since my threshhold for both guilt and embarrassment is quite high, it worked quite well.

Then, having bought another bike, the next step was to rationalize keeping the first one, so that never again would I suffer withdrawal symptoms. No problem...

So now it would have to be extremely bad luck for me to be completely bikeless.

**toads** · 14th July 2004, 15:32

I sort of sympathise with you Zed, I can only ride my bike on fridays and not at all during the school holidays as I have young kids at home then, but as for coping with the bikeless blues, well I look at each day as whetting my appetite for when I can get on and go for a blat. It giving you perspective think of it like that

**Two Smoker** · 14th July 2004, 15:35

Well i am well practiced in the art of "having no bike" as mine is constantly getting repaired etc.... I think the only thing keeping me sane is the fact that i ride a beast of a CT110 nearly everyday.... and also the fact that im going to enjoy getting back on my bike...... YES I GET MINE TOMORROW MUAHAHAHAHA.....

LOOK OUT TS IS BACK ON THE ROAD BEING A MOBILE CHICANE........

**James Deuce** · 14th July 2004, 15:35

Try ten years. The involuntary twitching has almost stopped.

**Zed** · 14th July 2004, 15:43

Originally Posted by Firefight

Your welcome to take my bike out for a ride half a day this weekend, you will just have to lower your self to drive a car out my way.

F/F

Don't tempt me F/F!...great of you to make the offer but I'll pass thanks.

I'll endure to the end. Will have to shut the door to my spare room so I don't see all my gear sitting there!

Zed

**Ms Piggy** · 14th July 2004, 16:29

I just kept living through other peoples riding stories & there was lots of moaning & groaning as well.

**Kwaka-Kid** · 14th July 2004, 16:41

yep - ive had those feelings before zed - problem is it was when i was on holiday for 2 weeks some years back, all i wanted to do was get back home and ride to work even! (woulda been on an old crappy bike too, i just loved commuting even!)

Trick is just buy a whole load of old bikes etc! then as one dies/gets crashed u jump on the next

ive always had a father to fall back on and steal a bike off etc

(even if it is an old lump)

**Motoracer** · 14th July 2004, 16:57

Originally Posted by Kwaka-Kid

Trick is just buy a whole load of old bikes etc! then as one dies/gets crashed u jump on the next

ive always had a father to fall back on and steal a bike off etc

(even if it is an old lump)

Yep, that's always a good Idea. We've (me and my bro) had about 4-7 bikes in the garrage most of the time. At the moment, we are on 4 + a rolling frame.

**loosebruce** · 14th July 2004, 17:12

Suck indeed, i feel for you man, i was without my mobile compresser for a good part of 6 months when it dropped a valve, apparently the first TLS to drop a valve anyone else out there had that problem?? But hang tight man, i'd like to put a shout out to the boys at welly motorcycles and of course WT for helping get back on my bike, BIG UPS

Life without bikes is not worth living, hence why i'm ticked up to eyeballs and above just to have a bike and every cent i earn goes to the bike.