Hi everyone who responded to my Motorcycle Maintenance posting.
Horse said:
>
>I was surprised at your use of the word addictive as I wouldn't have thought of
>it
>that way - but you might be right.
Probably not the right word at all. I suppose I meant that the staring
at motorcycles starts to be something you find yourself doing without
any *reason*.
>A lot of the people I know seem to trade in their bikes after a couple of years
>and I
>don't think they really get to know them. They buy them new, only ride them in
>the good weather and say goodbye too soon. They don't seem to get the same
>sort of relationship with the bike that I do with mine.
Do you think it is possible to have that sort of relationship with a
machine which you don't do any maintenance on yourself ( even if you
have owned it for a long time ). I find that most riders who have all
the work done on their machine by a bike workshop seem not to have quite
the same feel for the bike. One exception is a friend of mine who is an
artist. He owned a Moto Morini for many years. The only reason he parted
with it was that he moved a long way from the only mechanic he trusted
to work on it and was also worried about spare part availability. He now
has a Yamaha Diversion. He loves it, but he still pines for the Morini.
>It's a mixture of static and dynamic value - the static value creates/is created
>by
>my memories and the dynamic value is the anticipation of "kicking the tyres,
>lighting the fires and tooling down the road". It's a part of me now and I know
>I'll
>never be able to sell this bike - or my other bike (a Moto-Guzzi Le Mans Mk.1)
>which has sat patiently waiting to be rebuilt for far too long now.
I know what you mean. I could never part with one of my bikes which has
been through some pretty major upheavals in my life for the last 17
years ( yes a Morini ). There have been few motorcycles that I have been
totally glad to see the back of, but some caused fewer regrets than
others.
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