Shiny! I need shiny!

**Donor** · 29th January 2007, 20:31

I know I will suffer beatings for this but...

SOMEONE SWAP ME A SHINY BIKE FOR DAISY!!!

Sigh...

So often I arrive at rides with the "ugly duckling" ... I know Daisy is well loved by one and all, but I just don't know when I will have the cash or time to either bring her up to her former glory, or find something else to replace her while she takes some time off the road...

I'm so confused... *sob*

S'cuse me as I go and flameproof my PM inbox...

**Ixion** · 29th January 2007, 20:57

Its a two smoker . They don't do shiny. Just settle for being noisy smelly antisocial and obnoxious. And fast. Very fast. The perfect biker.

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 29th January 2007, 20:57

Originally Posted by Donor

So often I arrive at rides with the "ugly duckling" ... I know Daisy is well loved by one and all, but I just don't know when I will have the cash or time to either bring her up to her former glory, or find something else to replace her while she takes some time off the road...

You look after her... she'll lokk after you...

**Donor** · 29th January 2007, 20:59

Originally Posted by Ixion

Its a two smoker . They don't do shiny. Just settle for being noisy smelly antisocial and obnoxious. And fast. Very fast. The perfect biker.

But I want to conform! I want whiny, zippy and relatively safe... hells teeth, I think I just described my wife...

**maybe** · 29th January 2007, 21:00

Dont always need polish realiability the big one.

**Chisanga** · 29th January 2007, 21:01

Somehow, Donor, the thought of you on a 'pretty' bike is just wrong. Maybe it's like some people say with our pets... the motorcycle reflects the owner and vice versa (Hmmmm... I think I just called you an Ugly Duckling

)

I think your bike is cool. Just harden up and be grateful that you are a biker at all

**Donor** · 29th January 2007, 21:01

Originally Posted by NighthawkNZ

You look after her... she'll lokk after you...

This is the free bike that has so far cost me a grand... admittedly small things like obtaining a license, registering, warranting, riding gear and a new tyre pretty much accounts of $990 of that...

But that's not the point. Or is it...

I really have to stop posting when sober...

**Steam** · 29th January 2007, 21:06

Let it get REALLY ugly and dirty and then post a picture of it here http://ratbike.org and then many odd British Bodgers will love you and compliment you on how ugly it is.

**Donor** · 29th January 2007, 21:10

Originally Posted by Chisanga

Somehow, Donor, the thought of you on a 'pretty' bike is just wrong. Maybe it's like some people say with our pets... the motorcycle reflects the owner and vice versa (Hmmmm... I think I just called you an Ugly Duckling

)

Closest thing to a compliment I've had in a while on the personal level - I'll accept it!

Originally Posted by Chisanga

I think your bike is cool. Just harden up and be grateful that you are a biker at all

I thank all that is good on 2 wheels each and every day for the ability to piss cage pilots off with my uber care free air conditioning.

I just wish sometimes I could do it in a bit more... style...

**Chisanga** · 29th January 2007, 21:15

Originally Posted by Donor

I just wish sometimes I could do it in a bit more... style...

Buy a VTR250 then and i'll let you join the "cool" club

**toymachine** · 29th January 2007, 21:17

Don't make Daisy shiny. The look is the only thing holding the poor bike together. If you had the name Daisy would you want the only thing showing the real you taken away? Thats a tough bike, don't give it looks to match it's name.

**Ixion** · 29th January 2007, 21:23

Originally Posted by Donor

I just wish sometimes I could do it in a bit more... style...

Style? style? You need more #8 wire and gaffer tape. And pull the cable on the oil pump a bit so it makes more smoke. That's style.

**Donor** · 29th January 2007, 21:35

Originally Posted by toymachine

Don't make Daisy shiny. The look is the only thing holding the poor bike together. If you had the name Daisy would you want the only thing showing the real you taken away? Thats a tough bike, don't give it looks to match it's name.

A bit like a boy named Sue?