znomit wrote:
Fudmucker wrote:
Logical consideration:
The optimum number of motorcycles to own can be expressed mathematically by the following equation:
N = Nn +1
where:
N = Optimum number
Nn= the number you currently own.
PS: Send us pictures of your high school sweetheart!
N has a practical upper limit of S-1.
S is the number at which your
Spouse kicks you out and you find your highschool sweetheart is a large small time drug dealer living in a trailer with eight kids and three teeth. And you join her.
Attila wrote:
It is an opportunity to experience a double relationship, one quiet and the other stormy ... but which one do you want to combine with which vehicle?
I have a unique relationship status.
I have a 41-year marriage (+2 years courting) with my wife.
I have a 52-year relationship with my high school sweetheart of which 48 years have been purely platonic (yes, it is possible!).
When I met my wife I made it clear it was not a 'one or the other' situation. The two became firm friends and now gang up on me!
The wife calls her my 'girlfriend'.
At my 40th birthday party my 'girlfriend' asked me what kind of 4x4 I was planning to buy. I asked her to explain (she has a PhD Psychology) and she said:
"When men get to your age, they go through an identity crisis and do one of two things - either find a mistress, or they buy a 4x4. As I have known you since the age of 13, I know which alternative you will choose."
Well, I didn't buy a 4x4 - I bought a BMW R80/7 motorcycle instead.
She became known as 'The Mistress".
My wife doesn't ride pillion at all so I really can have weekends away with my mistress.
Time marched on and my crisis deepened. I met a younger mistress (R100S) and passed my first one off to a work colleague. Then I was seduced by a 1981 R80G/S and I got involved with her twin sister as well ! A 1996 R80GSPD came my way too and I succumbed again. Further down the line, my path crossed with a 2004 R1200GS that I kept for a few years on the side as well until I callously traded her for a 2009 virgin model...
I managed to resist temptation for a few years, then a stunning Italian girl distracted me from my Bavarian harem and a Vespa 300GTS came into my life - to my utter joy.
For two years I was mostly faithful, but again a nubile virgin Bavarian
fraulein crossed my path and (for the last time I promise!) I took her into my stable.
So,here I am, 65 years old with a wife, a girlfriend and 6 mistresses!
Regarding the S-1 situation, my dear wife once asked me:
"Hypothetically, what would you do if I told you to choose between me and the bikes?" To this I replied:"That is a question that neither of us wants to know the answer."
But I did sit my wife down over a bottle of red and, at the right moment, I said:
"Motorcycling will always take me away from you and the kids... but YOU are the reason why I come back every time!"
The S-1 subject now rests, with a solemn promise from me that, as long as I have two-wheeled mistresses in my life, there will be no two-legged ones...