"Security is mostly a superstition, it does not exist in nature: avoiding danger in the long run is no safer than outright being exposed. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."-Helen Keller
418 you read this entire thread nonstop nodding the whole time.
419 As the new owner of your trusty steed rides away your wife says, "WOW! I can't believe I outlasted her."
420 you experience painful PMS (Parked Motorcycle Syndrome) symptoms after only two days without riding. . . . . . . . STOP LAUGHING AT ME! PMS IS REAL!
421) You pre-plan your next three bike purchases simply because you realized you can fit three more in the garage.
422) You couldn't recall where or when you last filled up your cage if your life depended on it.
423) Once or twice a month you wash, and/or clean the spiderwebs off of, and/or move the cages one or two feet so the neighbors don't report them to the police as abandoned vehicles... even though, let's be honest... they are.
424) After finishing modding your bikes for the umpteenth time, you spend the following evening aimlessly meandering around the garage because you really want to wrench on them but there is nothing left to do until your next shipment of parts arrives.
432. You are down in Cabo and have to practice your Spanish so you ask "How many kilometers long is the Baja Peninsula down to Cabo?" and are really, really serious about planning a ride down...
434) After a 4 month hiatus from riding because you were dumb enough to take a job that is 100% travel, you return home and consider going on unemployment and riding to make up for the lost time.
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if you love your motorcycle, set it free.. if it comes back and hits you.. you highsided
"Security is mostly a superstition, it does not exist in nature: avoiding danger in the long run is no safer than outright being exposed. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."-Helen Keller
436) You crash your bike and recieve an injury that will keep you off the bike for 6 weeks...you are more concerned with putting the bike back in shape than yourself, and you spend HOURS every day planning for when you can get out on two wheels again!
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Well, fire the engines! Spur this iron space-pony on!
438. You have dinner with your wife or S.O., then retire to the garage. While she's on the phone to her mom, in the garage with you, you proceed to take the seat off, get the soldering iron out, play with wire routing, solder wires and terminals on the end of said wires, make connections to ground and fuse block,(she's inside at this point), start the bike and plug in your new Gerbing's jacket liner to test it out. It's been 1/2 hr. so far and she still hasn't asked what I was doing...
Only made it through half the thread before deciding to post so sorry if it's a repeat:
440) Your wife get's pissed cuz after saying yes and nodding, she realized you weren't actually listening, you were a) cruising CL for cycles/gear you "don't" need. b) watching cycle vids on youtube. or c) rereading your digital manual before doing a mod/fixit to improve your true love!
441) When visiting CL/ebay/amazon for anything besides cycle stuff, you immediately click "motorcycles" or type in "919" in the search box out of sheer muscle memory.
442) While mending from your latest run in with the ground, all you do is a) scour shops and the interwebs for necessary parts and 2) go to the local bike nights just to get close to bikes that currently run and get some stink on you. Even though you'd be there no matter what the circumstances!
You can't start the numbering over. That's bad ju ju. It's like messing with voodoo dolls 'n such. You know what happened to Haiti, don't you. They like them some voodoo down there and now they all sit in mud and don't have motorcycles.
Mean but damn did I actually laugh out loud. Ok not mean, just truly funny... sit in mud and don't have motorcycles... ha! pure gold!
446 when your in the dark tryna install your brand new exhaust because you didn't pay your light bill
448 ...and in said darkness you forgot that you put your gear on your bike and you realize painfully that your exhaust port is NOT your significant other sexily dressed in your riding gear.
449 (445 is listed 2x) - Someone at work points out, and asks why your pants are covered in bug guts... Your first thought is that you should take a half day so you can go home and wash the bike.