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:smt005Traded in my wonderful sv650s today. Gave him [billy blue] a final hug and thanks for the wonderful rides!
Was feeling okay until I handed over my keys to the dealer, and promptly burst into tears! Felt such a fool until the salesguy said it wasn't unusual to see grown men bubble when they sold their bikes!
Perhaps it's because he was my first 'big bike', or maybe I'm just a big woose?
So. what I want to know is..........anyone emotionally attatched to their bike?
ThEGr33k
09-05-09, 02:48 PM
Im not sure, but I wont get rid of it unless I have to. ha ha
GeneticBubble
09-05-09, 02:52 PM
i would say i am, when it wasn't ridable for a week due to battery problems and me having no money i was upset and angry, having to get the bus and lifts from parents, i was like a young kid in a sweet shop being told he couldn't have any.
i think its more of a freedom thing for me though rather than being attached to this specific bike.
What replaced it though is the question?!
:smt089Perhaps when I get it next week, I'll be able to spell KAWASAKI!!
I'm a tube. It's the grief.......missing my sv already!
GeneticBubble
09-05-09, 03:48 PM
:smt088Kawazaki ER6f.
:why: i mean there nice bikes but :why:
:why: i mean there nice bikes but :why:
Sv was killing my neck on long journeys. Needed an upright bike.
Looked at a few 'middleweight' bikes..... the hornet, bandit 600, fazer, triumph street triple, but tbh the er6f won hands down.:smt023
BigFootIsBlurry
09-05-09, 04:13 PM
er6f is a good lookign bike, dont know how the performance will compare though.
Personally, I'm not attached to my bike, despite it being a first bike. I way become so as time goes on but all I seem to have done is fix it since I bought it.
Edit: Just noticed you tried a street triple. ER6 really better than that? I'm surprised.
nope... had bikes stolen in the past so i just got used to getting unattached to them...
dont get me wrong i like my bike. but lets face it, its just a material thing when it comes down to it...
Dawn07 i know exactly what you mean. I still haven't been able to sell my first bike, um and my second, um ok so i haven't sold any of them yet! I really shouldn't have named them. You will love your new bike though :)
Thanks Zobers! Would have kept my sv if I could have afforded to keep two bikes.
Perhaps the lottery will come up for me tonight and I could buy back my sv and add a wee fireblade and triumph sprint st and, and.......oh feeling quite faint!:smt073
shonadoll
09-05-09, 04:59 PM
Thanks Zobers! Would have kept my sv if I could have afforded to keep two bikes.
Perhaps the lottery will come up for me tonight and I could buy back my sv and add a wee fireblade and triumph sprint st and, and.......oh feeling quite faint!:smt073
I think I will be the same, I'm planning on changing mine soon, but love my sv too. Post pics when you get it, I thought it was this weekend.:D
It was Shona, but Bennets insurance woudn't email the dealers and insurance papers not received today. Bugg*r
My trick is say that they are project bikes, and sorn them! lol I will get round to selling them this summer though, honest! There is nothing quite like your first big bike, awwww i might have to go look at the zxr now.
Fingers crossed that one of us wins the lotto :) Let us know how you get on with your new toy.
davepreston
09-05-09, 05:20 PM
SUZI WILL NEVER BE SOLD NEVER!
any problems with that i'll see ya outside
When Pete told me that we couldn't afford to keep both the SV and the Duke I was heartbroken. The day we rolled it outside and he started it up for the last time I blubbed like a baby.:(
shonadoll
09-05-09, 05:28 PM
It was Shona, but Bennets insurance woudn't email the dealers and insurance papers not received today. Bugg*r
Bunch of arses! Carole Nash overnighted mine and no extra cost. I hate Bennetts.Oh well, not long now, you need to come for coffee and show me and Jilly:D
sv-robo
09-05-09, 05:29 PM
yep!!even when i store them away for winter i miss em like mad,even though i know i'll soon be on em again.When i sold the sv for the rr it was sad seeing the new owner ride off on it.
metalangel
09-05-09, 05:34 PM
When I traded in the CB500 I had rather longer than I expected leaning against it outside while I waited for Blunder Road to bring out my duff-batteried, barely fuelled SV. Which gave me a lot of time to look lovingly at it and have second thoughts. No tears, though.
When I sold my old Volvo I was so relieved that I'd finally managed to get some money for it that I was too busy being happy to miss it!
I'm so attached to my SV400 that I refused to let the insurance company take it away when they wrote it off last October.
They did eventually compromise and allow me to keep it for salvage, so I am now in the process of rebuilding it around a replacement frame.
I'm making slow progress rebuilding her, but I'm making sure everything is right first time and putting the time and effort in to personalise, polish and make her mine before I re-register her.
She was special for a number of quite personal reasons before I crashed her and I was heartbroken at the damage I did, she's going to be even more special to me when I've finished rebuilding her, I know selling her on won't be easy because she was written off for a damaged frame, but I don't intend to ever sell her on anyway, I did however object to seeing a perfectly good bike scrapped expecially when there are so few SV400s around.
By the way, does anyone have a set of curvy mirrors and a complete (ie all lugs & fastenings intact, but can be scuffed) right hand headlight fairing panel preferably in red for sale, I've replaced pretty well everything else I need excluding a couple of consumable items (brake pads, chain).
Doof
dizzyblonde
09-05-09, 06:53 PM
EVERYBODY knows how much I'm attached to my yellow SV. I bought her for 2.5k and I spent more or less that in two years getting her back on the road, after she rotted. When everyone told me to give up and break her, Me- the stubborn one, put my boot down and didn't let her defeat me....believe me I've had everything from a blown engine to dodgy wiring, to rot:(Now shes so lovely I feel like sleeping in the shed! We have history together, me, her, my OH. Many happy times at the beginning of our relationship were spent on the back of that bike.
I love my other SV, but sadly I'm not as attached to that one as much. Its always been reliable, but its always trying to kill me(deers, offs, other weird things)
I wouldn't get rid of either, unless they were very squashed.
Wideboy
09-05-09, 07:48 PM
yes. its to small and bluddy uncomfortable....... but i can't bring myself to get rid
phil24_7
09-05-09, 07:52 PM
:smt005Traded in my wonderful sv650s today. Gave him [billy blue] a final hug and thanks for the wonderful rides!
Was feeling okay until I handed over my keys to the dealer, and promptly burst into tears! Felt such a fool until the salesguy said it wasn't unusual to see grown men bubble when they sold their bikes!
Perhaps it's because he was my first 'big bike', or maybe I'm just a big woose?
So. what I want to know is..........anyone emotionally attatched to their bike?
Yup, I'm attatched, hence I'll never sell her!
thedonal
09-05-09, 08:30 PM
Oh God Yes!
Not only is she my first bike, but I also had an off with her and went through the whole learning about bikes and maintenance and some diy servicing. Makes it a really personal thing, in my opinion.
But I will move on. Next bike will be a Firestorm (sorry Greek!). So- moving on to something similar in scope, but bigger and Honda engineering and another bike that I've seen so many testimonials about people who really miss it once it's gone.
It must be a V-Twin thing.
Speedy Claire
09-05-09, 08:53 PM
I wouldn`t say I`m emotionally attached... more very fond of them. Having said that it really upsets me if the bike gets scratched or damaged
Very attached! I blubbed when I sold Humph and Redd, and am thinking about changing Oliver, but just can't bring myself to do it, even though I'm still lusting after a Busa.
Hummm, perhaps I should stop naming them, that might help.
Bikes are just amalgamations of plastic, metal and rubber; they have no soul, no life and no feelings. Getting emotionally attached to a bike is the automotive equivalent of stalking a celebrity - you love it but it has no idea who the hell you are or even what you're about.
As you've probably guessed, I don't get the slightest bit attached to my vehicles.
Jamiebridges123
10-05-09, 02:20 AM
I've always thought of bikes as girlfriends, without the monthly whinge.. and none of the drawbacks.
Your bike won't cheat on you, your bike won't stand you up, your bike won't give you an STD...
Your bike will make you smile every time you go out on it. It'll be the place where you go over some of your most inner thoughts, where you'll laugh and sometimes where you'll cry. Your bike will never let you down so long as you look after it, your bike will take you places you may never have been, show you some new things and meet some new people.
I've lost two bikes.. I traded in my RS125 FP 06 and missed it dearly... and then I wrote off my Z750. The loss of the Z750 was a big deal to me..
It was my first big bike... It was the first time I ever got up to well above 100mph.. the first time I got my knee down.. the first time I had no chicken strips what so ever..
It was the first bike I did 100 miles on in one sitting. The first time I've really gone outside of my local-ish area. The first time I've gone out with my Dad on the bikes.
I truly loved my Zed..it was an escape from my at the time PITA girlfriend, from reality, from the day to day crap. I would wash it every 3 days regardless of the weather. If it was salty (I commuted on it throughout the winter) I would wash it every day after work, regardless of weather. I'd end up with numb fingers and frost would be forming on the plastic flyscreen. It'd always get two coats of Scottoiler FS10 after every wash, regardless of weather and had no rust on it at all. Chain+sprockets were always totally spotless and I fitted a Scottoiler the day after I bought it. Didn't even need to adjust the chain over Winter, infact I never had to.
I remember the day I lost it..March 24th.. I remember seeing it being dragged from the back of the low loader into my garage.. I remember the smell of oil and metal... I remember the guy who picked it up for spares/salvage driving away with it on his trailer... Even to this day I'm still having nightmares about crashing my SV.
The SV I replaced my Z with also filled the "hole" that the Z used to take. I take as much care as I can with the SV, I wash it regularly as before and just wish I had the funds to sort out things like chain+sprockets and a few minor blemishes(none of my own doing I may add..)
My Z in it's pride and glory (http://www.lfsforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=80739&d=1237744836)
What it ended up like (http://www.lfsforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=80886&d=1237943278)
More of the same (http://www.lfsforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=80888&d=1237943404)
When you lose a bike you loved dearly, it teaches you about riding.. and how to not lose another one. Maybe because the Z was my first big bike, perhaps that added to the attachment, but it's not something I'd wish upon anyone...
love my bike, but as hove said its just amaterial thing, metal and plastic held together with nuts and bolts. I'm not the sort to give it a name either. I do find it sweet when a bike is given a name, see there is a heart beneath this exterior :)
I not attached to it but i love my bike. I was thinknig the other day that i might not ever sell it, and just save my money up when it comes to buying another bike and have two the SV and whatever else.
yorkie_chris
10-05-09, 10:35 AM
No. Neither do I give my vehicles names, or lick the petrol tank before bed time.
Graciepants
10-05-09, 11:03 AM
err....well while explaining a noise problem coming from my bike to davenumbers (along with the plea "can you fix it please") and he said the word "terminal" i actually almost cried.
although that might be to do with the fact that i cant afford for my bike to die. it doe shas a name though - my non-biking housemate named it McMorgan, and it also has a nickname "the armchair" by law, so i do love it slightly
Had my last bike, ZR7, for 5 1/2 years. That machine cost me £1500 & took me all over the country with never a missed beat. It became like an old friend tbh, & having modified it severely - i dont do standard, i felt i'd stamped a bit of myself on it. Yes I still miss it, but have replaced it with an accident damaged SV, which I finally got back on the road last week. Sods law, it's pee'd it down everyday since so haven't had a chance to get to know it properly yet, but i'm sure i'll enjoy it every bit as much as my old Kwaker.
http://s599.photobucket.com/albums/tt71/Spinky_01/?action=view¤t=SANY0425.jpg
Had many a good time on ol' blue. What made me shed a tear was seeing someone else ride off on it plus the carbon can sounded fantastic.. something I never got to hear when perched on top of it, a different sound when on the sidelines
abdul.aziz
10-05-09, 03:53 PM
lol i dont think i could ever get emotionally attached to a bike, or anything non-human.
But then again, for me its more of a practical thing - I need it to commute etc.
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