When Are You Getting Your Bike?

All I heard today is, "when are you getting the new bike?" "When are you getting the new bike?" "Which one did you get?" "Which one did you buy?" "What color?" "Are you excited?"

"You're going to need toeclips like on those pedal bikes so you can keep your feet on the pegs at speed."
"I hope the fire you die in is hot Chad."

Except for Lee, Lee's a hero ;). "Jeff, I'm going to uncrate your bike now."
"Ohhh, cool, thanks!"

Then later I had to wander back into the shop, and he says,
"Oh yeah, Jeff, I threw your battery on charge."
"Lee, you're my hero."

So, should you ever read this, thanks for taking care of my bike, even before it was my bike :D.

I Miss It

So, I miss it. I've been trying to avoid riding for the past couple of days in an effort to avoid putting extra miles on the bike prior to trade in. I'm going to have too many on it already when I drop it off. So we'll see what happens.

I'm starting to twitch all I see in my head is - powering down a straight, waiting for the last possible second to get up on the brakes. Brake brake brake, look around the corner, drop your shoulder in and TURNNNNNNNNNN, get back on the gas hurry hurry hard hard hard. Look for the exit. Go go go go, up and out, accelerate, look look look. Goooooo.

I need to go for a ride.

It Shouldn't Be This Easy!

It shouldn't be this easy. It shouldn't be this easy to buy a bike. It shouldn't be this easy to sell my old one. Bikes are special, they're unique, they're the 10% of the population. They're... they simply are. And attaining one should not be this simple.

Today I wandered into the shop on my day off and was greeted across the showroom. "Are you here for breakfast?"
"No, I was thinking about trading in my bike, on a zx6."
Questioningly, "a red one?"
"YES!"
"Good, we have some. Talk to R*" *I'm not going to name name's here*

"I'll be with you in a minute Jeff, just let me finish up with these guys.

So, R, runs outside and looks at my old bike, "you're going to need a new tire."
"yeah, I've got one set aside that I can put on, and it's also got a replacement stator cover and some scratches on the tank/tail."
"We'll give you a good price on it either way."

Very rapidly we went through the breakdown of what it'd cost me to buy the bike. And how much I'd get for mine. Too fast, things were in a rush. Then we filled out a financing application, and I was done. Away I went off to visit my Aunt and Uncle.

I stopped off 3 hours later to find out that I'd been easily approved for financing - take good care of your credit kiddies, and you can buy nice things later on.

I agreed to take delivery on this coming Thursday, and I've now got in my hot little hand a bill of sale for a 2007 ZX6-R in bright smoking red!

A list of proposed mods is
1) corbin seat
2) fender eliminator
3) hugger
4) pazzo levers
5) SS brake lines
6) akraprovic exhaust
7) heat wrap on the header/exhaust

I can't even begin to describe how excited I am.