We're taught real men don't cry...

**jrandom** · 25th June 2008, 00:33

Originally Posted by scumdog

Fuggup, I've been on the Jose Cuervo for the last 4 hours...

Maker's Mark here.

Go go late-night drunken posting!

**Big Dave** · 25th June 2008, 00:37

Originally Posted by jrandom

With a Super Glide, who needs lube?

Dry sump dontchaknow.

**scumdog** · 25th June 2008, 00:44

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Dry sump dontchaknow.

You tellim Big Dave, Big_Dave, big dave or whoever ya are.....

**Big Dave** · 25th June 2008, 01:04

Originally Posted by scumdog

Big Dave, Big_Dave, big dave or whoever ya are.....

Hey - I don't want to have to discipline you as well.

**Gremlin** · 25th June 2008, 02:21

Originally Posted by Mikkel

We've done 13,500 kms together, gone over the next hill and the one beyond that as well, been on adventures, had fun times and scary times and done silly things too.

pah... you hardly been dating... thats about half a year init? I was expecting another number in there somewhere

Is it your first?

**McJim** · 25th June 2008, 02:25

I remember being a bit sad to sell the VTR (my first bike). Now I often forget I ever owned a Honda (and rarely admit it!)

**Donor** · 25th June 2008, 07:26

Originally Posted by Big Dave

It's a motorcycle.

machine.

they break - you fix them, you find something better - you piss it off and party on.

Indeed.

My 'mighty' ZZR was my bestest friend.

Then, Mr Full License and Mr Crusier came along - and ZZR could get the hell outta my garage, for it was only a motorcycle.

**xwhatsit** · 25th June 2008, 07:56

Ahhh, know where you're coming from Mikkel. My dear RS is far away, being manhandled by hairy Northeners with beards. I miss her! Want her back in the gargre! RZ powerband is fun, but it's like a cheap fling with the girl at the coffee shop after your real love leaves you for a law school grad.

So in future I'm hanging on to her tight! None of this `selling' nonsense.

Don't listen to Donor and Little David. They're cold, heartless bastards -- from one cheap, meaningless relationship to the next.

**Maha** · 25th June 2008, 07:56

Originally Posted by Mikkel

Tomorrow I am taking my ZXR out for, what will most likely be, our last ride together.

I just hope who ever buys her will look well after her...

So that's it - final curtain for the red ZXR that I have enjoyed so much. I just hope that the new bike which I am picking up tomorrow will help me get over it.

I know how you feel Mikkel....I watched my Triumph ride away with its new owner on Sunday, and remember the same feeling when I sold my Yamaha YZF. Both bikes were awesome to me but I know they went to a good home and the right person. I also know that, I now have a bike that will give me just as much pleasure as the others did so its all good. The outcome is positive.

**Badjelly** · 25th June 2008, 08:55

Originally Posted by Mikkel

So that's it - final curtain for the red ZXR that I have enjoyed so much. I just hope that the new bike which I am picking up tomorrow will help me get over it.

You're not fooling me with your crocodile tears. Your post is just a pretext for gloating in advance about your new bike

. What is it, by the way?

**Mikkel** · 25th June 2008, 09:25

Originally Posted by Gremlin

pah... you hardly been dating... thats about half a year init? I was expecting another number in there somewhere

Is it your first?

9 months and 7 days thank you very much!

Yeah, she is my first bike.

Originally Posted by Donor

Then, Mr Full License and Mr Crusier came along - and ZZR could get the hell outta my garage, for it was only a motorcycle.

You cold hearted bastard!

Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat

So in future I'm hanging on to her tight! None of this `selling' nonsense.

I wish I had the garage space and the money to do that...

Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat

Don't listen to Donor and Little David. They're cold, heartless bastards -- from one cheap, meaningless relationship to the next.

I think I'd have to agree with you there! I suspect it's that 'lack of commitment' syndrome which often occurs in people who goes through a lot of fast machines in a short time

Originally Posted by Maha

I know how you feel Mikkel....I watched my Triumph ride away with its new owner on Sunday, and remember the same feeling when I sold my Yamaha YZF. Both bikes were awesome to me but I know they went to a good home and the right person. I also know that, I now have a bike that will give me just as much pleasure as the others did so its all good. The outcome is positive.

I can only hope that it goes to a good home

And yes, development is positive!

Originally Posted by Badjelly

You're not fooling me with your crocodile tears. Your post is just a pretext for gloating in advance about your new bike

. What is it, by the way?

To be completely honest I was feeling down last night! Sentimental fool and all of that... Feeling better this morning.
The new bike is the one in my avatar - 2006 Husqvarna 610 SM

**martybabe** · 25th June 2008, 17:47

Aw, mate, commiserations and congratulations. Awesome bike kidda, you'll have a lot of fun on that.

Got any spiked speedway tyres?

**Mikkel** · 25th June 2008, 22:21

Originally Posted by martybabe

Aw, mate, commiserations and congratulations. Awesome bike kidda, you'll have a lot of fun on that.

Got any spiked speedway tyres?

Cheers

Mate, Christchurch may be coldish in the winter - but surely not that cold...

That said - cold Pilot Powers are not up to keeping the beast in line if you feed it more than just a tiny weeny bit wrist around slow corners

It's a lot easier now that the ZXR has actually left the garage and something else has taken its place

**alanzs** · 26th June 2008, 15:46

I sold my '99 Busa a few years back, as three bikes just wasn't necessary. While I'm generally not sentimental about machines, I do miss that Busa. I had some amazing times on that machine...
Hang in there, go riding and take your mind off it... Time heals all wounds...