Emotional Attachment To Vehicles

I had a £200 Peugeot 205 "Junior", referred to as Junior, for about 6 months. I loved that little thing, it was reliable, perky, just generally nice. I never spoke to it, and I wasn't attached to it, but it made me feel better behind the wheel than an '89 French car has any right to. Was quite sad to see it go.

Working in car sales i get a new car every 6 months or so and drive so many different cars I've become totally detached from them and see them a objects that pay the bills!

some classics or exotics do still get the heart pumping but again you see so many you become blase about them too. . .

love my sv though cos its all mine and ill not be changing her anytime soon but i would never go as far as a name or anything. . . if i did though it would be a manly one like Thor?

Well sort of.....for its more sense of the good times that I have had with the bikes, so its everything put togther as the whole thing rather than just the bike.

[Rich]

I did have with the SV but saw the GSXR and have found a new love.. It's taken a while to get the same feeling from the gixxer as i did from the SV but i now love it as much if not more.. They are objects but they do give us all great times and pleasure, most if the time

I was quite emotional after I got my SV and the CB250rs got wheeled away, it was MY bike, got me back into biking after around 10 years in cars only. Had a little tear in my eye. And even if the insurance were gonna give me £2600 Im not giving my SV up after 3 months... she should be back in 2 weeks, good as new and me £800 richer as well!!

Steve

[northwind]

I talk to my SV sometimes. It's not mental! People talk to cats and they don't listen either... I'm sort of half sentimental, half pragmatic, my bike's totally a tool and I'm not bothered when it gets dinged up but if it was stolen or destroyed I'd probably be very upset. Then i'd get another one and do it all over again.

Cheerful Hello from the States all!

I'm a relative Newbie to the SV world. Just took up riding again since giving it up as a road-rashed youngster. Everyday now, I am just tickled to putt along to work on my '04 SVS, with nothing in view but my nose and two useless mirrors.

Emotional Attachment to a vehicle: She was a 1967 Chevrolet Nova Sport Coupe. Oh, how I loved to hate that car. I could spend hours just staring at those lines; the curve of the fenderwell; the serious frown of the vented headlight bezels.

It left me stranded more times than I could count.

The beast fought off every attempt at making it enjoyable to drive.

Years after I left her, I spotted her at an automotive swap-meet; on a trailer, gutted, used and abused as a race car. I do believe I teared up as I thought "What a beautiful, horrible car."

I havnt been that fussed about either bike going. I dont have names. I enjoy my bike but I dont get overly interested in one. Of course id be unhappy to have no bike mind.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by MoDaddy

Cheerful Hello from the States all!

I'm a relative Newbie to the SV world. Just took up riding again since giving it up as a road-rashed youngster. Everyday now, I am just tickled to putt along to work on my '04 SVS, with nothing in view but my nose and two useless mirrors.

Emotional Attachment to a vehicle: She was a 1967 Chevrolet Nova Sport Coupe. Oh, how I loved to hate that car. I could spend hours just staring at those lines; the curve of the fenderwell; the serious frown of the vented headlight bezels.

It left me stranded more times than I could count.

The beast fought off every attempt at making it enjoyable to drive.

Years after I left her, I spotted her at an automotive swap-meet; on a trailer, gutted, used and abused as a race car. I do believe I teared up as I thought "What a beautiful, horrible car."

welcome to the org...
your description just about sums up one of my bikes...lol
funnily enough my dad got attached to one of his cars years ago, he waved it off into the distance on a trailer, presumably to a scrap yard!
I never did tell him I found it on a street one day, sat on bricks in a sorry state...i can still remember the reg plate number to this day!

[Jayneflakes]

Originally Posted by northwind

I talk to my SV sometimes. It's not mental! People talk to cats and they don't listen either... I'm sort of half sentimental, half pragmatic, my bike's totally a tool and I'm not bothered when it gets dinged up but if it was stolen or destroyed I'd probably be very upset. Then i'd get another one and do it all over again.

I tell both my cat and my SV that I love them, but only the cat rubs his face against mine.
If my SV could talk back it would say "I love you too Mummy, can we go and play on the twisty roads again, it does not matter that you have not got your license yet?"
I would smile and pat Silvie's soft siver paint and tuck her into bed and say maybe tomorrow my darling...