Born to be mild
Do you ride with your head ... or your heart?
Seriously! Are you a sensible rider with an eye to the future or does your passion take over from common sense whenever you throw your leg over your bike? Buy accordingly.
Me, my heart makes recommendations but my head makes the decisions.
Grow older but never grow up
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Heart - what I decide to ride.
Head - how I ride it.
The original Disco
I like the way you thinkOriginally Posted by Stirts
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary - that's what gets you."
Jeremy Clarkson.
Kawasaki 200mph Club
Would you like some CANDY!?!?!
Heart - I love making ill thought out expensive decisions. I like the step into the unknown and the adventure.
And I've never felt like I have made the wrong one.
The metal is always nude.
Well over the years I've done the heart rather than head and it's wound me up in trouble.
So until a few months ago it was think with head with my purchases.
I figured it was all over when I became the (co) owner of a big mortgage but then I fell in love with the Guzzi in WMCC.
Purchasing this would have been totally illogical but Mrs Nuddy saw how much I liked it, did some calculations of our incomings and outgoings and said "we can afford it"......By the time she'd just finished said "...it", I was in Pete the Crasher's office !!!
The only condition Mrs gave me was that I'm not allowed to sell it for 5 years,.....however she didn't say it couldn't be joined by another Guzzi.............
YOU'RE HERE FOR A SHORT TIME ON THIS EARTH,...LIVE A LITTLE, DO THAT HEART-MINDED PURCHASE !!!!!
"...you meet the weirdest people riding a Guzzi !!..."
Forum whore
go with your heart i have always done it i have always strived to get the bike that i desired the most that was achievable for me.. i've always had it as my main toy, and nothing else comes before it.. my bike is me... custom zxr250 worked up and painted modded and loved.. then a fightered 10r that i spent months on now another 10r which i spend most of my time and money on to make it the dream bike it is.... go for gold mate!
Last edited by N4CR; 2nd July 2007 at 20:35.
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Heart - with all my bikes I have sat on them, bought them, then test ride them home! Never regretted it - the cost is worth every cent.
Actions speak louder than words or good intentions
He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. - Paul Keating
Come warm yourself by the fire
Hang on why did i vote head.....the FZ was the most illogical choice i have ever made in my life. I didnt have the money, there was no way in hell i was going to max it out.....hang on though it was practical.....it had a back seat and a small fairing (was looking at fighters at the time)
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Forum whore
The most fun & enjoyment you'll get from a bike will be the one you buy with your heart!
You'll love it, hate it, it'll send you broke if you aren't already, but it will give you something that practicality can't.
Unless you're a BMW rider.........
“- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
Buttered Chicken
In another thread that was on here not long ago, someone suggested resolving difficult decisions with a coin toss. Then if your heart sinks when you see the outcome, you know what you really wanted.
If you really can afford a heart based decision, go for it. But buy Italian.
Forum whore
Just as longs as it's not Ducati eh?In another thread that was on here not long ago, someone suggested resolving difficult decisions with a coin toss. Then if your heart sinks when you see the outcome, you know what you really wanted.
If you really can afford a heart based decision, go for it. But buy Italian.
“There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there? ”-Clerks
Buttered Chicken
Just as longs as it's not Ducati eh?I think I could forgive a 1098, S4rs, or Hypermotard. Now that I've been provoked into thinking about it, I could probably encourage the purchase of one of those KTM things too.
Armature speller
Not sure.
I went "heart" with the Gilera Nordwest
But I bought a DR650 instead of getting the cambelt and steering-head bearings done on the Nordie.
The DR was "head".
My brother had looked after it since the guy bought it and I could get parts from up town rather than Europe.
And now I find I prefer gravel to seal...
Forum whore
I like that one jim2 sound advice.
I have a question for you to ask your self.
Is the older bike only goin to be ridden to 70% of its capability or are you going to find your being slowed by its lack of the latest bits. I for one couldn't ride a 05 CBR or ZX10 any where near its max.
The answer for me would be in the above.
Secondly you mentioned track days. I think, I would having a 'bigger go' on a not so new bike. Where I might find the odd race part or 'I crashed it' part second hand.
My 0.02¢ only!
On a Motorcycle you're penetrating distance, right along with the machine!! In a car you're just a spectator, the windshields like a TV!!
'Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out! Shouting, ' Holy sh!t... What a Ride!! '
The metal is always nude.
ha,...that's what I did. Buying an Italian machine is an emotive experience IMO.If you really can afford a heart based decision, go for it. But buy Italian.
Sure the Guzzi is not fast, perhaps a bit cumbersome compared to a Gixxer, maybe dear to run (well it is to insure !!) and reliability can be a little dodgy with some of the electrics, but I still fell in love with it.
Italian bikes have got something that no other bikes have.
Clivoris knows what I mean by this.
"...you meet the weirdest people riding a Guzzi !!..."
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