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Big Rob
21/03/2006 at 18:04
For the first time in 30 years i dont own a motorbike. Sold both my bikes today and im not sure what im doing now.
It seemed a good idea at the time but now ive done it im not sure in what direction to go. I know this probably means nothing to anyone but the one thing apart from my love of hills thats always been part of my life is my motorbikes, silly i know but thats how it is.
Think i may have to go for a pint or 2 and do some thinking.
NickyNackyNoo
21/03/2006 at 18:09
Hi Rob

I love my bikes too.
had to get rid of them all a while back due to snapping my hand off whilst skydiving (the hard and fast way, obviously).

You will be ok eventually, but it will become a problem if all your mates ALSO ride bikes.

Why not buy an old GS1000 and do a restoration job on it to while away the hours you would have spent out riding ??

why did you sell them, anyway ?
21/03/2006 at 18:12
My husband had to sell his bike due to financial reasons.

Owing to our bankcrupcty he can't now get another one for three years.

Although I personally don't know how this feels I can have some sympathy with you as I have seen what my husband has gone through.

He doesn't talk much, not like he used to and I know that it hurts him not to have the bike anymore. People who don't get into bikes will have no idea what we are talking about but what the hell.

Everyone is different and cares about different things in life.

To me, being able to get out into the hills is the one things that kept me going through a lot of health issues. I even took guidebooks and pictures in to hospital with me as inspiration for what I wanted to achieve once I was better. I am still waiting for another operation but things are improving all the time.

You have to look at the positive side. I assume that unless you gave them away you have some money now.

Now, what are going to do with it? Perhaps you needed to sell the bikes to pay bills like we did? Well, we put 80% of it to the bills but we spent the other 20% on things we wanted to do. Its not the same but its at least something.

Email me if you want to talk more freely out of public gaze.
Big Rob
21/03/2006 at 18:44
Why did i sell them Nicky? Weird really but its a combination of things but this is the main one. Old injuries have been giving me some right grief just lately and falling off a mountain didnt help back in December. Over the years ive broke my neck, my wrists, knees (Shattered my left knee cap and joint), broke my feet, hands and even my damned nose in a night time enduro. Ive torn masses of ligaments and muscles, dislocated my right arm so bad that it damaged the joint with some weird bleeding (blood was pumping in but not out or summat. Im not a doctor but i know it smarted a bit). Ive skinned from my hip bones to my toes, skinned my forearms so on so forth and after all that im still one of the lucky ones out of all the people ive known over the years. Its odd i know but i feel like my luck has had its run if you see what i mean and the next one is really gonna hurt or stop me doing my other loves like clambering around mountains etc. It sounds so stupid when you read it back to yourself but its how i feel.
Sheonaid, cheers, its appreciated. Yeah, ive got a few quid which is a bonus and its all mine to spend how i want which is a good thing but also bad as i dont know what to do with it. Maybe a trip to Nepal, maybe a camper van, god only knows :o)
21/03/2006 at 18:48
I can really recommend the campervan option! Just be careful you don't set fire to yourself as you would appear to be a bit injury prone ;-)

Its not stupid, its how you feel. Sometimes what we pour out is closer to the truth that what we edit over.

Also, there it always the thought that if you change your mind you can always get another one.
Big Rob
21/03/2006 at 18:51
Not accident prone, just pushed a bit hard sometimes :o)
21/03/2006 at 18:53
I obviously never pushed hard enough - had bikes in the family, dated only bikers for many years and all I ever did was break one little bone in my left hand...
NickyNackyNoo
21/03/2006 at 18:54
actually you have hit the nail on the head, so to speak, Rob
that is EXACTLY the reason i gave up skydiving.
i suddenly felt that if i jumped again, that really could be the last time.
and i'm not a scaredy cat sort of person at all !!
i have a lot of the battle scars you mentioned, and i bet you wore your leathers too, didn't you ? and i bet you always know it's going to rain by how your knees ache ?

oh, the joys of riding bikes, we're well out of it mate !

you can now spend all that time freezing your @rse off on the hills, instead of freezing your @rse off , on yer bike !!

21/03/2006 at 18:54
ooo, can I count tattooing in my trophies of pain cupboard?
NickyNackyNoo
21/03/2006 at 18:57
what the hell is a ''trophies of pain cupboard''


dare i ask ??


sounds...erm...a bit S& M





or is it just me?
21/03/2006 at 18:58
Some people, including me, believe in precognition.

When I was young (as in very young) I took the micky when the train passed through Elmswell saying alls well at elmswell - years down the line I ended up living there.

I knew one of us would fall and be injured on New years eve - back luck it was me.

I knew for some reason that if I went waterski-ing something bad would happen - I nearly drowned.

Now I listen to my intuition. Perhaps you are subconciously listening to yours? Or maybe I'm talking bollards.
21/03/2006 at 18:59
Nicky - its a turn I heard around my local a few years back. It was a bit of a competition to see who got the most scars in their pain cupboard.

I didn't invent it - they can be a bit odd in Essex....
NickyNackyNoo
21/03/2006 at 19:03
ah NOW i geddit....hmm.... bet Rob could add a few to this one

i can add a broken tail (Coxys)
hurt like surgery (yep-i know what i'm talking about there)

i see what u mean about the precognition thingy-but all bikers develop that to a very good degree, or have a lot of accidents.
21/03/2006 at 19:07
Having read a number of books by climbers and spoken to some quite famous ones over the years (pubs in Sheffield are very good for that) I think this precognition thing effects people more who are in tune with their bodies and accept a level of risk in their lives that others don't.

I know of several climbers who have stopped and gone on to different sports for the very reason that they knew somehow that there time was up. Some put it down to just the odds. You know, where if you have a one in four chance of not making it back and you've already made it back four time aren't you then pushing your luck?

Some didn't know exactly why, they just felt it.

Has Rob got his pint yet?
Edited: 21/03/2006 at 19:09
Ddyrchafedig Gyrrwr (Beic Modur)
21/03/2006 at 19:14
I had to take a new RRV (rapid response vehicle) to Bridgend today to have Radio/Mobile/GPS fitted, so whilst waiting I called into Thunderoad Motorcycles as they have just opened an extended showroom.

I saw two new Honda Pan European ST1300s, one in Silver and one in Burgundy.

SO tempting, but I would not want to get rid of my BMW, and I have not got the room in the garage for the two.

Wish I had found some other "time killer" really!!

:-((
Edited: 21/03/2006 at 19:15
Julian b (2)
21/03/2006 at 19:18
I know exactly how you feel Rob,i was the same when i sold my last motorhome.Finally worked my way upto a hymer but alas 4 little kids in such a confined space just proved to much...3 years latter im still sad and it hasn,t got easier.
captain paranoia
21/03/2006 at 19:42
I'd only start worrying if you start to become a bit Dopey, Sneezy, Happy, Bashful Sleepy and Doc...

I sort of know how you're feeling; I've had two mountain bikes stolen, and they've left a terrible hole. Weird; it's an inanimate object, but I miss them.

Actually, I only miss the second one now; I recovered the first one two years after it was stolen, locked up outside the Law Courts... Now THAT was a day of joy, tinged with sadness when I found how badly it had been treated.

It took ages for me to stop looking at every bike I saw. In fact, I still do, knowing that I _did_ recover the first one. Only now my heart doesn't flutter at every bike I see; I no longer hope to see it again.
ragdolly
21/03/2006 at 23:48
Tony, I assume from "RRV", your a medic. Do you drive Motorcycle Response Units also? Is your beamer a classic or a modern model? my friend has an old boxer and wouldnt part with it for anything.
Big Rob
22/03/2006 at 00:42
Nice to see people understand. Ive had a few beverages so i wont go potty on a reply. :o)
22/03/2006 at 08:49
I think we would prefer it if you didn't 'go potty' anywhere but the appropriate place really....lol
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